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Performance times:
- MON
- 19:30
- TUE
- 19:30
- WED
- 14:30 19:30
- THU
- 19:30
- FRI
- 19:30
- SAT
- 14:30 19:30
- SUN
- No show
Show starts:
21st November 2009
Show ends:
10th April 2010
Run time:
3:00
Venue:
Novello Theatre
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof is Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama which premiered on Broadway in 1955.
The play is set on a Mississippi estate where patriarch Big Daddy is unaware he is dying from cancer as the truth has been kept from him by his children. Maggie, the 'cat' of the title, has married into this wealthy family to escape the poverty of her childhood but finds herself neglected by her alcoholic husband Brick.
Following its 1955 premiere, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof was made into a film in 1958 starring Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor.
This new production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof was staged on Broadway last year with an all-black cast including James Earl Jones as Big Daddy and Phylicia Rashad, who both recreate their performances in the West End. Jones is a Tony Award-winning stage actor who has starred frequently on Broadway and is also well known for his film career, Rashad's Broadway credits include August: Osage County and A Raisin In The Sun, though she is stil
This brand new production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof comes to London after a sensational sellout run on Broadway. Tennessee Williams’ classic deals with the trials and tribulations of a close knit family on a southern plantation. While Big Daddy worries about his son Brick’s troubled and childless marriage, he fails to see his own problems.In 1958, the play was adapted into the iconic film starring Elizabeth Taylor.
Directed by Debbie Allen, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof brings to London its two leading stars. Multi award winner James Earl Jones reprises his role as the bad tempered Big Daddy. Jones is best known for his his roles in such films as Patriot Games, The Hunt for Red October, Conan the Barbarian and, most famously, as the voice of Darth Vader in the orginal Star Wars Trilogy.
He is rejoined by Phylicia Rashaad as Big Mama. Rashaad, Debbie Allen's sister, is known worldwide as the high flying Clair Huxtable in The Cosby Show. Rashaad was the first black woman to win the Tony award for Best Leading Actress in a Play for Broadway’s A Raisin in the Sun in 2004.
US film actress Sanaa Lathan plays the beautiful Maggie and Hustle star Adrian Lester joins the show as her alcoholic husband Brick.
Directed by Debbie Allen, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof brings to London its two leading stars. Multi award winner James Earl Jones reprises his role as the bad tempered Big Daddy. Jones is best known for his his roles in such films as Patriot Games, The Hunt for Red October, Conan the Barbarian and, most famously, as the voice of Darth Vader in the orginal Star Wars Trilogy.
He is rejoined by Phylicia Rashaad as Big Mama. Rashaad, Debbie Allen's sister, is known worldwide as the high flying Clair Huxtable in The Cosby Show. Rashaad was the first black woman to win the Tony award for Best Leading Actress in a Play for Broadway’s A Raisin in the Sun in 2004.
US film actress Sanaa Lathan plays the beautiful Maggie and Hustle star Adrian Lester joins the show as her alcoholic husband Brick.
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