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The Pulitzer Prize-winning Tennessee Williams play centered around Big Daddy, Brick and Maggie the 'cat'.

Story:

In a plantation house, a family celebrates the sixty-fifth birthday of Big Daddy, as they sentimentally dub him. The mood is somber, despite the festivities, because a number of evils poison the gaiety: greed, sins of the past and desperate, clawing hopes for the future spar with one another as the knowledge that Big Daddy is dying slowly makes the rounds. Maggie, Big Daddy's daughter-in-law, wants to give him the news that she's finally become pregnant by Big Daddy's favorite son, Brick, but Brick won't cooperate in Maggie's plans and prefers to stay in a mild alcoholic haze the entire length of his visit. Maggie has her own interests at heart in wanting to become pregnant, of course, but she also wants to make amends to Brick for an error in judgment that nearly cost her her marriage. Swarming around Maggie and Brick are their intrusive, conniving relatives, all eager to see Maggie put in her place and Brick tumbled from his position of most-beloved son. By evening's end, Maggie's ingenuity, fortitude and passion will set things right, and Brick's love for his father, never before expressed, will retrieve him from his path of destruction and return him, helplessly, to Maggie's loving arms.

Fun Fact

This show is an adaptaion of Williams' 1952 short story "Three Players of a Summer Game."

: Playwright
Tennessee Williams

Broadway Premiere

Theatre: Morosco Theatre

Opening Night: Mar 24, 1955

Total Performances: 694

Original Cast: Barbara Bel Geddes, Burl Ives, Mildred Dunnock, Ben Gazzara, R. G. Armstrong, Janice Dunn, Seth Edwards, Maxwell Glanville, Pauline Hahn, Pat Hingle, Brownie McGhee, Darryl Richard, Madeleine Sherwood, Eva Vaughn Smith, Fred Stewart, Sonny Terry, Musa Williams

Director: Elia Kazan

Producer: The Playwrights' Company

Scenic Design: Jo Mielziner

Costume Design: Lucinda Ballard

Lighting Design: Jo Mielziner

1974 Broadway Revival

Theatre: ANTA Playhouse

Opening Night: Sep 24, 1974

Total Performances: 160

Original Cast: Elizabeth Ashley, Keir Dullea, Fred Gwynne, Kate Reid, Amy Borress, Jeb Brown, Sukey Brown, William Larsen, Joan Pape, Wyman Pendleton, Kathy Rich, Sarallen, Charles Siebert

Director: Michael Kahn

Producer: ANTA

Scenic Design: John Conklin

Costume Design: Jane Greenwood

Lighting Design: Marc B. Weiss

1990 Broadway Revival

Theatre: Eugene O'Neill Theatre

Opening Night: Mar 21, 1990

Total Performances: 149

Original Cast: Kathleen Turner, Charles Durning, Polly Holliday, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Nesbitt Blaisdell, Suzy Bouffard, Ron Brice, Jerome Dempsey, Amy Gross, Marcial Howard, Edwina Lewis, Kevin O'Rourke, Debra Jo Rupp, Billy L. Sullivan, Erin Torpey, Seth Jerome Walker

Director: Howard Davies

Producer: Barry & Fran Weissler

Scenic Design: William Dudley

Costume Design: Patricia Zipprodt

Lighting Design: Mark Henderson

Sound Design: T. Richard Fitzgerald

Hair Design: Robert DiNiro

2003 Broadway Revival

Theatre: Music Box Theatre

Opening Night: Nov 2, 2003

Total Performances: 145

Original Cast: Ned Beatty, Ashley Judd, Jason Patric, Amy Hohn, Margo Martindale, Michael Mastro, Starla Benford, Patrick Collins, Pamela Jane Henning, Alvin Keith, Isabella Mehiel, Edwin C. Owens, Muireann Phelan, Zachary Ross, Charles Saxton, Jo Twiss

Director: Anthony Page

Producer: Bill Kenwright

Scenic Design: Maria Björnson

Costume Design: Jane Greenwood

Lighting Design: Howard Harrison

Sound Design: Christopher Cronin

Wig Design: Tom Watson

2008 Broadway Revival

Theatre: Broadhurst Theatre

Opening Night: Mar 6, 2008

Total Performances: 125

Original Cast: Terrence Howard, James Earl Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose, Skye Jasmine Allen-McBean, Lisa Arrindell Anderson, Bethany Butler, Marissa Chisolm, Giancarlo Esposito, Marja Harmon, Heaven Howard, Clark Jackson, Lou Myers, Robert Christopher Riley, Count Stovall

Director: Debbie Allen

Producer: Front Row Productions, Stephen C. Byrd and Alia M. Jones

Scenic Design: Ray Klausen

Costume Design: Jane Greenwood

Lighting Design: William H. Grant III

Sound Design: John Shivers

Hair Design: Charles G. LaPointe

2013 Broadway Revival

Theatre: Richard Rodgers Theatre

Opening Night: Jan 17, 2013

Total Performances: 84

Original Cast: Ciarán Hinds, Scarlett Johansson, Benjamin Walker, Debra Monk, Emily Bergl, Tanya Birl, Will Cobbs, Laurel Griggs, Vin Knight, Victoria Leigh, Charlotte Rose Masi, Michael Park, George Porteous, Brian Reddy, Lance Roberts, Cherene Snow, Noah Unger

Director: Rob Ashford

Producer: Stuart Thompson, Jon B. Platt, The Araca Group, Roger Berlind, Scott M. Delman, Roy Furman, Ruth Hendel, Carl Moellenberg, Scott and Brian Zeilinger, Nederlander Presentations, Inc., Tulchin Bartner Productions and Scott Rudin