Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The play won the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
At the 1956 Tony Awards the production received the following nominations:-
Best Play
Best Actress – Barbara Bel Geddes
Best Director – Elia Kazan
Best Design – Jo Mielziner
The actual winners were:-
Best Play – The Diary of Anne Frank
Best Actress – Julie Harris “The Lark”
Best Director – Tyrone Guthrie “The Matchamker”
Best Design – Peter Larkin “No Time For Sergeants”
Cast & Crew
Cast
| Big Daddy | Burl Ives |
|---|---|
| Big Daddy (Replacement) | R G Armstrong |
| Big Daddy (Replacement) | S Thomas Gomez |
| Big Mama | Mildred Dunnock |
| Big Mama (Replacement) | Mary Bell |
| Big Mama (Replacement) | Nancy Cushman |
| Big Mama (Replacement) | Claiborne Foster |
| Brick | Ben Gazzara |
| Brick (Replacement) | Jack Lord |
| Brick (Replacement) | Alex Nicol |
| Brick (Replacement) | Elmore Torn |
| Brightie | Brownie McGhee |
| Buster | Darryl Richard |
| Buster (Replacement) | Jimmy Bayer |
| Daisy | Eva Vaughn Smith |
| Dixie | Pauline Hahn |
| Dixie (Replacement) | Michele Mordana |
| Dr Baugh | R G Armstrong |
| Gooper | Pat Hingle |
| Gooper (Replacement) | John Anderson |
| Lacey | Maxwell Glanville |
| Mae | Madeleine Sherwood |
| Maggie | Barbara Bel Geddes |
| Maggie (Replacement) | Patricia Neal |
| Maggie (Replacement) | Marjorie Steele |
| Rev. Tooker | Fred Stewart |
| Small | Sonny Terry |
| Sonny | Seth Edwards |
| Sookey | Musa Williams |
| Trixie | Janice Dunn |
| Trixie (Replacement) | Nancy Clark |
| Trixie (Replacement) | Michele Mordana |
Crew | |
| Costumes | Lucinda Ballard |
| Designer & Lighting | Jo Mielziner |
| Director | Elia Kazan |
| Sonny (Replacement) | Nicholas Paul |
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