Flashback Marquee: 2003 Revival of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF

One of Tennessee Williams's best-known works and his personal favorite, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955. Set in the "plantation home in the Mississippi Delta"of Big Daddy Pollitt, a wealthy cotton tycoon, the play examines the relationships among members of Big Daddy's family, primarily between his son Brick and Maggie the "Cat", Brick's wife.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof features several recurring motifs, such as social mores, greed, superficiality, mendacity, decay, sexual desire, repression, and death. Dialogue throughout is often rendered phonetically to represent accents of the Southern United States. The original production starred Barbara BelGeddes, Burl Ives, and Ben Gazzara . The play was adapted as a motion picture of the same name in 1958, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman as Maggie and Brick, respectively. Williams made substantial excisions and alterations to the play for a revival in 1974. This has been the version used for most subsequent revivals, which have been numerous.

Below, we bring you a photo flashback of the marquee at the Music Box Theatre for the 2003 Broadway revival, featuring Ashley Judd, Jason Patric, Ned Beatty and Margo Martindale.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride

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