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Morosco Theatre, (3/24/1955 - 11/17/1956)

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Opening Date:	Mar 24, 1955
Closing Date:	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.

Opening Night Credits
Awards

Production Staff
Theatre Owned by The Shubert Organization; Theatre Operated by City Playhouses, Inc. (Louis A. Lotito, President)
Produced by The Playwrights' Company (Maxwell Anderson; Robert Anderson; Elmer Rice; Robert E. Sherwood; Roger L. Stevens; John F. Wharton)
Written by Tennessee Williams
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

Cast

Barbara Bel Geddes	Maggie
Burl Ives	Big Daddy
Mildred Dunnock	Big Mama	(Mar 24, 1955 - Apr 26, 1956)
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

Tony Award^®
1956 Best Play [nominee]
Written by Tennessee Williams; Produced by The Playwrights' Company (Maxwell Anderson; Robert Anderson; Elmer Rice; Robert E. Sherwood; Roger L. Stevens; John F. Wharton)
1956 Best Actress in a Play [nominee]
Barbara Bel Geddes
1956 Best Scenic Design [nominee]
Jo Mielziner
1956 Best Director [nominee]
Staged by Elia Kazan
Pulitzer Prize
1955 for Drama [winner]
Written by Tennessee Williams