Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Background

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof explores the decaying Southern aristocracy with a gathering for the birthday of Big Daddy Pollitt. Though it is Big Daddy’s day, Tennessee Williams focuses on his son Brick, a football hero broken up by the suicide of his close friend Skip. While Brick drowns his sorrows in a tumbler, his wife, Maggie “The Cat”, is upset that he will not take part in the debauchery that has gathered Big Daddy’s family. The family and the doctors have kept the truth from the patriarch, the truth that he is terminal with cancer. The relatives have gathered to put their best faces on and set them selves up for a good chunk of will.

Based loosely on one of his short stories, Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof uses Big Daddy’s day to explore the mendacity that props up Southern society, sexism, and the prevalence of homosexuality in a culture that prides itself on its manliness and reputation.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof originally ran in 1955 with direction by Elia Kazan. It quickly became a hit selling plenty of tickets and being nominated for plenty of Tony Awards. The film version followed suite with Paul Newman as Brick, Elizabeth Taylor as Maggie, and Burt Ives as Big Daddy. The 1958 film was nominated for several Academy Awards despite the muted controversial themes.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: 2008

Now it is 2008 and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is back in its latest rendition. Debbie Allen directs the all African-American rendition that stars Terrance Howard in his Broadway debut as Brick, Anika Noni Rose as Maggie, James Earl Jones as his father Big Daddy, and Philicia Rashad as Big Momma. The show will run at the Broadhurst Theatre until the end of June, so get your Cat on a Hot Tin Roof tickets at The Seats fast.

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