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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Morosco Theatre, (3/24/1955 - 11/17/1956)
Preview: Total Previews:
Opening:Mar 24, 1955   
Closing:Nov 17, 1956 Total Performances:694


Category: Play, Drama, Original, Broadway
Setting: A bed-sitting room and section of the gallery of a plantation home in the Mississippi Delta. An evening in summer.





by opening date





Staged by Elia Kazan

Scenic Design by Jo Mielziner; Lighting Design by Jo Mielziner; Costume Design by Lucinda Ballard; Assistant Designer to Jo Mielziner: John Harvey; Assistant to Lucinda Ballard: Florence Klotz

Business Manager: Victor Samrock; Company Manager: Ben Rosenberg

Production Stage Manager: Robert Downing; Stage Manager: Daniel Broun; Assistant Stage Mgr: Richard Durham

Press Representative: William Fields; Associate Press Representative: Walter Alford and Reginald Denenholz; Assistant to Mr. Kazan: Marguerite Lamkin and Jean Stein; Production Assistant: Malcolm Wells


Opening Night Cast

Barbara Bel Geddes Maggie  
Burl Ives Big Daddy  
Mildred Dunnock Big Mama   
Ben Gazzara Brick   
R. G. Armstrong Dr. Baugh  
Janice Dunn Trixie  
Seth Edwards Sonny  
Maxwell Glanville Lacey  
Pauline Hahn Dixie  
Pat Hingle Gooper
Brother Man 
 
Brownie McGhee Brightie  
Darryl Richard Buster  
Madeleine Sherwood Mae
Sister Woman 
 
Eva Vaughn Smith Daisy  
Fred Stewart Rev. Tooker  
Sonny Terry Small  
Musa Williams Sookey