Photo Flash: First Rehearsals For CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF

By: Oct. 23, 2009
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On Monday 19 October, the cast of Tennessee Williams’ Cat On A Hot Tin Roof began rehearsals for the show’s West End run at the Novello Theatre from 21 November to 10 April 2010. 

Debbie Allen’s sell-out Broadway production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof has set designs by Morgan Large with costume designs by Fay Fullerton, lighting by David Holmes, sound by Richard Brooker and original music by Andrew “Tex” Allen.   Cat On A Hot Tin Roof is produced by Stephen Byrd and Alia Jones for Front Row Productions.

The cast is Richard Blackwood (Brightie), Guy Burgess (Lacey), Claudia Cadette (Nanny), Peter De Jersey (Gooper), Derek Griffiths (Reverend Tooker), James Earl Jones (Big Daddy), Sanaa Lathan (Maggie), Susan Lawson-Reynolds (Sookey), Adrian Lester (Brick), Joseph Mydell (Doctor Baugh), Phylicia Rashad (Big Mama) and Nina Sosanya (Mae).  They are joined by Yvonne Gidden who will understudy Big Mama.

Tennessee Williams’ Cat On A Hot Tin Roof was last seen in the West End in 2001directed by Anthony Page with a cast including Frances O’Connor, Brendan Fraser, Ned Beatty and Gemma Jones.  In1988 Howard Davies directed a National Theatre production with a cast including Ian Charleson, Lindsay Duncan, Barbara Leigh-Hunt and Eric Porter.

Photo Flash: First Rehearsals For CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Debbie Allen (Director), Adrian Lester (Brick), Sanaa Lathan (Maggie), James Earl Jones (Big Daddy) and Phylicia Rashad (Big Mama)

Photo Flash: First Rehearsals For CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Phylicia Rashad

Photo Flash: First Rehearsals For CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
James Earl Jones

Photo Flash: First Rehearsals For CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Adrian Lester (Brick), James Earl Jones (Big Daddy), Phylicia Rashad (Big Mama), Sanaa Lathan (Maggie)

Photos: Dan Wooller



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