CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF BROADWAY REVIEWS

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Synopsis: Will manipulative patriarch Big Daddy leave his plantation to his weasly son Gooper or his handsome alcoholic son Brick? And why doesn't Brick have a son of his own? Hotblooded wife Maggie does her best to tempt Brick from his brooding and back into her bed.

Broadway Reviews

NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW:

""Those eternal adversaries, irresistible force and immovable object, clash with gusto in the first act of the otherwise flabby revival of Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof which opened Thursday night at the Broadhurst Theater.""

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NEWSDAY REVIEW:

""A shimmering ensemble that honors America's great poet of bruised humanity.""

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USA TODAY REVIEW:

""Phylicia Rashad's Big Mama has some undeniably funny moments, and a few poignant ones; but it's another case of a normally astute, elegant actress adding too much sauce to an already spicy part. Lisa Arrindell Anderson is even more histrionic as Maggie's conniving, annoying sister-in-law.""

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VARIETY REVIEW:

""While Debbie Allen's inexperience as a director shows in pedestrian physical staging with a tendency toward heavy-handedness, she lucks out where it most matters -- with her powerhouse cast.""

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NY DAILY NEWS REVIEW:

""Allen's all-black cast works fine as a concept, but her nearly three-hour production is hit-and-miss. It doesn't deepen Williams' 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner, which is filled with sex, lies and Delta depravity. Those ingredients make for a show that can bubble over and boil. This one mostly just simmers.""

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NEW YORK POST REVIEW:

""I've seen smoother stagings of the play, but this one is well worth seeing. It has satisfying power and little or any "mendacity.""

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AM NEW YORK REVIEW:

""To be frank, Debbie Allen's staging is terrible. Just plain awful and amateurish. The production is just poorly executed.""

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THEATERMANIA REVIEW:

""As for the all-African-American casting, the only pertinent comment is that it turns out to be an incidental factor in this powerful revival of Williams' hot attack on the greed and mendacity affecting too many family units every day and everywhere.""

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