a streetcar named desire

     

This play says "Then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at--Elysian Fields!"

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  • For his first opera, Andre Previn adapted this 1947 Pulitzer Prize play featuring sex, violence & insanity
  • In 1998 the city of New Orleans gave the title object of this play to the city of San Francisco
  • In 1992 you could have seen James Gandolfini playing cards with Stanley Kowalski in a revival of this play
  • If this play were written today, Blanche would have to ride the bus; the title vehicle doesn't run any more
  • Harold Mitchell,Eunice Hubbell,Stella Kowalski
  • Valerie Bettis choreographed a ballet based on this Tennessee Williams play & sometimes played Blanche in it
  • This play's setting is "A two-story corner building on a street in New Orleans which is named Elysian Fields"
  • It ends with Marlon Brando yelling for Stella
  • Stanley Kowalski trips the light fantastic in the ballet version of this play
  • Igor Youskevitch was noted for playing Stanley in the ballet version of this Tennessee Williams play
  • Blanche DuBois
  • (Hi, I'm Kathryn Erbe of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent".) In 1997 I played Stella Kowalski in the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's 50th anniversary production of this great American play
  • In this film Vivien Leigh cracked, "Stanley Kowalski, survivor of the Stone Age"
  • Lady arrives in New Orleans for an extended visit with her sister; her brother-in-law throws a real hissy fit
  • "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers"
  • We learn of the loss of Belle Reve, ancestral home of the DuBois family, in this classic 1947 play
  • 1951:"I've always depended on the kindness of strangers"
  • "...Remember what Huey Long said -- that every man's a king -- and I'm the king around here and don't you forget it!"
  • 1951:"Stell-lahhhhh!!"
  • Blanche's brother-in-law Stanley
  • Mia Slavenska danced the role of Blanche DuBois at the premiere of this ballet in 1952
  • Elia Kazan directed both this 1947 play, that made Marlon Brando a star, & the 1951 film
  • The music of film composer Alex North drives the ballet based on this play about Stanley Kowalski
  • Fading Southern belle visits sister & brutish brother-in-law; goes nuts
  • Of adapting this Southern play, Andre Previn said it's "always been an opera. It's just that the music was missing"

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