written by Tennessee Williams
directed by Derek Tarson
Friday September 17th 1999 — Saturday October 9th 1999

In a plantation house, a family celebrates the sixty-fifth birthday of Big Daddy, as they sentimentally dub him. The mood is somber, despite the festivities, because a number of evils poison the gaiety: greed, sins of the past and desperate, clawing hopes for the future spar with one another as the knowledge that Big Daddy is dying slowly makes the rounds. Maggie, Big Daddy’s daughter-in-law, wants to give him the news that she’s finally become pregnant by Big Daddy’s favorite son, Brick, but Brick won’t cooperate in Maggie’s plans and prefers to stay in a mild alcoholic haze the entire length of his visit. Maggie has her own interests at heart in wanting to become pregnant, of course, but she also wants to make amends to Brick for an error in judgment that nearly cost her her marriage. Swarming around Maggie and Brick are their intrusive, conniving relatives, all eager to see Maggie put in her place and Brick tumbled from his position of most-beloved son. By evening’s end, Maggie’s ingenuity, fortitude and passion will set things right, and Brick’s love for his father, never before expressed, will retrieve him from his path of destruction and return him, helplessly, to Maggie’s loving arms.
Cast
- Margaret: Marian McCabe
- Brick: Jonathan Strait
- Mae: Sharon Gordon
- Gooper: Jordon Davis
- Big Mama: Ronnie Siegel
- Big Daddy: Roy Harry
- Reverend Tooker: Rick Levi
- Doctor Baugh: Burt Greenberg
- Sookey: Taika Howard
- Polly: Brianna Gorman
- Sonny: Thomas Gorman
- Trixie: Jillian Berry
- Trixie: Jade Jevnik
- Dixie: Morgan Knipe
- Dixie: Mara Frankel
- Buster: Jesse Wekerle
Production Staff / Crew
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Director: Derek Tarson
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Set Designer: Robert Sven Olson
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Lighting Designer: Mike Gnazzo
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Costume Designer: Suzanne Potoma
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Hair / Make-up Designer: Carmela Paladino Mondello
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Sound Designer: Sami Hashim
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Assistant to the Director: Kandi Rosenbaum
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Technical Director: David Vogel
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Producer: Kathy C. Gnazzo
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Stage Manager: Keith Sklar
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Stage Manager: Mike Gnazzo
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Assistant Stage Manager: Fred Pulver