Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2003)
Opening Night: November 2, 2003
Closing: March 7, 2004
Theater: Music Box Theatre
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of sibling rivalry, set on a Mississippi plantation as a Southern family gather for the 65th birthday of Big Daddy, its ailing patriarch. Brick is the youngest son, who along with his wife, Maggie, scheme against his brother and Big Daddy’s favorite for the inheritance of the family estate.
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November 3, 2003
There’s nothing remotely feline about the critter who rules the new revival of ”Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” which opened last night at the Music Box Theater. As the Southern patriarch Big Daddy in Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of familial lies and loneliness, Ned Beatty brings to mind a rooster bred for cockfighting, just released from his cage and rarin’ to ruffle feathers.
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