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Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
Synopsis & Storyline
Considered alongside The Glass
Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire as one of
Tennessee Williams' finest works, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,
winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama
Critics Circle Award for Best Play, premiered on Broadway in 1955.
Set in a plantation house in Mississippi, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
is the story of the rivalries and misunderstandings that tear apart
a family as it gathers for the 65th birthday of its patriarch, Big
Daddy.
Director Debbie Allen has assembled a stellar cast for this revival,
the first African-American production approved by the Williams
estate for the Broadway stage. Academy Award nominee Terrence Howard
is set to make his Broadway debut as Brick, the alcoholic son of Big
Daddy and Big Mama (Tony Award winners James Earl Jones and Phylicia
Rashad) and unhappy husband of "Maggie the Cat" (Tony winner Anika
Noni Rose, most recently seen in the film version of Dreamgirls).
Where?
Broadhurst Theatre
235 West 44th Street
When?
Tuesday-Saturday - 8PM
Wednesday & Sunday - 2PM
Sunday - 3PM
How Long?
2 hours and 45 minutes, with
2 twelve minute intermissions
Started:
February 12, 2008
Opened:
March 6, 2008
Cast:
Terrence Howard as
Brick
Anika Noni Rose as Maggie
James Earl Jones as Big Daddy
Phylicia Rashad as Big Mama
Lisa Arrindell Anderson, Mae
Giancarlo Esposito, Gooper
Count Stovall, Dr. Baugh
Lou Myers, Rev. Tooker
Written by Tennessee
Williams
Directed by Debbie Allen
Scenic Design by Ray Klausen
Costume Design by Jane Greenwood
Lighting Design by William Grant
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