![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As a result, there are two very distinct endings to this play. Williams took some, but not all, of these suggestions to heart. He felt William's play needed to be tweaked in three ways: Big Daddy needed to stick around in Act III, Brick needed to have a more pronounced transformation after all the mendacity talk, and Maggie needed to be more likeable. Kazan, who was also a giant in the movie business, had the job of staging Cat for a mainstream, Broadway audience. Kazan liked to help Williams "shape" his plays (i.e., change them). Kazan and Williams were longtime artistic collaborators. When it was first produced in 1955 on Broadway, Cat was directed by a famous director named Elia Kazan. And they're here to stay apparently, because Cat on a Hot Tin Roof has two prominent endings, and has had several revisions. Remember those Choose-Your-Own-Adventure children books you used to read when you were little? You know, in the days before the Internet, when your third grade teacher thought she could trick you into liking books by giving you "interactive" time travel adventure stories about Thomas Edison? Ah, good times. There is an eerie calm now that we know Big Daddy, patriarch extraordinaire, has cancer. It's strangely akin to a black widow ensnaring prey in her web. ![]() Cat ends with Maggie entrapping Brick in their bedroom and insinuating that it's baby-making time, or else no more Echo Spring. ![]()
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