the glass menagerie

     

This play is divided into "parts", not acts, with the 2nd titled "The Gentleman Calls"

Trivia about the glass menagerie

  • A gentleman caller breaks Laura's unicorn figurine in this Tennessee Williams play
  • Calista Flockhart played the "fragile" Laura in a 1994 revival of this Tennessee Williams play
  • Tennessee broke onto the Broadway scene in 1945 with this play with a "breakable" title
  • In this Tennessee Williams play, Tom Wingfield brings a gentleman caller home to meet his crippled sister Laura
  • Rejected as movie script, Broadway loved this fragile Tennessee Williams drama
  • Amanda, Tom & the fragile Laura Wingfield are all characters in this Tennessee Williams play
  • Kirk Douglas played the "gentleman caller" in the film version of this Tennessee Williams play
  • Tennessee Williams wrote that "Time is the longest distance between 2 places" in this 1945 play
  • Williams:A shy girl collects crystal
  • The play in which Amanda says, "I want you to stay fresh and pretty -- for gentleman callers."
  • Tennessee's first success was this play about the Wingfield family that premiered in 1944
  • Christian Slater returned to B'way in a 2005 revival of this Tennessee Williams play about shattered illusions
  • The "Gentleman Caller" breaks Laura's prized figurine in this play from 1945
  • Laura: "You broke my unicorn!"Gentleman caller: "whoops"
  • Jim & Laura keep dancing -- they hit the table & it looks -- yep, the little unicorn is broken, you could see that coming
  • It's Tennessee Williams' semi-autobiographical play about the Wingfield family
  • (Hi, I'm Sam Waterston.) I received my 1st Emmy nomination for the television version of this play; I played Tom & Katharine Hepburn played my mother, Amanda Wingfield
  • Laura Wingfield, the sister in this play, was modeled on Tennessee Williams' sister
  • Laura Wingfield lives in a fantasy world populated by her collection of fragile animals in this 1945 play
  • In 2007 Jessica Lange took to the London stage as Amanda Wingfield in this Tennessee Williams drama

Tweets about the glass menagerie

  • RT @whatsasupreme: Ok now that I've calmed down (& safely downloaded the videos onto my backup drive) I am watching Jess and Sarah in The G…