5/31/2023 0 Comments Tennessee williams play the glass![]() ![]() Williams had originally doubted the play would have a broad appeal for audiences because the material was so personal (Lutz 42). In 1944 the work evolved into The Glass Menagerie. Later that year, Williams rewrote the story into the unsuccessful script, “The Gentleman Caller,” while working as a screenwriter in Hollywood for MGM. The short story, “Portrait of a Girl in Glass,” was completed in 1943. The Glass Menagerie went through several incarnations before it opened in Chicago. Its success continued when the play opened in New York on March 31, 1945, where it had a run of 563 performances and earned Williams his first New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for the best play of the year, the Donaldson Award from Billboard magazine, and the Sidney Howard Memorial Award from the Playwrights Company (Lutz 9). Soon the play was grossing $15,000 weekly, almost five times the take of the first week” (Norma Jean Lutz, “Biography of Tennessee Williams,” Bloom’s BioCritiques Tennessee Williams, ed. ![]() The play opened to a small audience in Chicago on a chilling December 26, 1944, but “by the third week. ![]() One of the best known plays of the American theatre, The Glass Menagerie was Tennessee Williams’s first critical and financial success. ![]()
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