Ben Gazzara Rare Vintage Broadway Window Card " End as a Man" His first role - $3,200 - (Millsboro, DE)

This is the only known example of Ben Gazzara;s first opening role Broadway Poster. Not even IBDB Internet Broadway Data Base has this image. Gazzara joined the Actors Studio, where a group of students improvised a play from Calder Willingham's novel End as a Man. The tale of a brutal southern military academy reached Broadway slightly changed in 1953 but with Gazzara still in the principal role. It was a star making part (he won a Theatre World award) and he then played leads in the original productions of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1955) and "A Hatful of Rain" (1955) (he was nominated for a Tony) Measurements 14 x 22 Conservator matting in a Black frame w/ glare proof glass add 189.00 Truly one of a kind..End as a Man Vanderbilt Theatre, (10/14/1953 - 12/12/1953)Lyceum Theatre, (12/17/1953 - 1/16/1954)First Preview:Total Previews:Opening Date:Oct 14, 1953 Closing Date:Jan 16, 1954Total Performances:105Category: Play, Original, BroadwaySetting: A military college in the South.Comments: Opened at the Theatre de Lys, September 15, 1953 for 32 performances. Opening Night CreditsAwardsProduction StaffProduced by Claire HellerWritten by Calder Willingham; Based on the book by Calder WillinghamStaged by Jack GarfeinProduction Design by Melvin BourneStage Manager: Irving Buchman

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