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Williams drama premiers at UT
AUSTIN (AP) — The title, dripping with images
of humid southern melodrama, is signature Ten
nessee Williams.
“Spring Storm,” Williams’ story of young iove
and emotional crisis in a small Mississippi town —
written during 1937 and 1938 — finally gets its
world premiere. Wednesday at the University of Texas
— Austin.
Written before Williams hit his stride and the
American consciousness with “The Glass
Menagerie” and “A Streetcar Named Desire,” “Spring
Storm” is not Williams’ best work
but is a worthy effort by the man
who arguably would become the
nation’s greatest playwright, pro
ducer Charles Duggan said.
“It’s basically a very good wa-
tercolor painting by somebody
who’s going to turn into an old
master,” Duggan said.
“It’s exciting.”
Williams submitted the work for
a play-writing contest when he was
a 27-year-old student at the Uni
versity of Iowa.
Struggling to finish the play,
Williams wrote several endings.
One of them, which will not be per
formed, had the lead character taking her clothes off
onstage.
That ending shocked his classmates and Williams
put the script aside. Williams died in 1983 and the
play went unnoticed until last year when a copy of
it surfaced in the collection of Williams’ writings at
the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at
the University of Texas.
Prefacing the play with his own notes, Williams
said his mission was to tell a story of four people
struggling with love in a small town.
“The theme of the play — badly stated — is the
unconscious savage cruelty of the sexual struggle,”
Williams wrote.
“My intention was not to write a melodramatic
‘shocker’ (I earnestly hope I haven’t), but to give a
sincere psychological treatment of problems I have
felt keenly.”
Nonetheless, the play is melodramatic, director
Michael Bloom said, and it is romantic.
“it’s much more melodramatic than some of his
greatest plays, but you hear the poetic voice that he
was already developing,” Bloom said.
“Spring Storm” also preludes some of Williams’
more famous characters. Heavenly Critchfield, a 22-
year-old woman who falls in love with a man from
the wrong side of the tracks, appears again later as
Heavenly Finley in “Sweet Bird of Youth.”
“This play is great because it’s really the embryo
for some of his greatest characters,” Tertia Lynch,
who auditioned for the Heavenly role in New York
said. “Maggie [Pollit], Blanche [Dubois], they’re just
all in there.”
Staging the play is the new Ac
tors Repertory of Texas, which is af
filiated with the University of Texas
College of Fine Arts. "Spring
Storm” is the repertory’s first pro
duction.
"It’s a heavy burden to presume
to do this,” Duggan said. "To be
able to do something of this nature,
to be able to do the world premiere
of a Tennessee Williams play, is al
most a special gift.”
But not one without its haggles.
Duggan and Bloom said they
wanted to use the ending in which
Heavenly gets naked. However, Se-
wanee, The University of the South
in Tennessee, which owns the rights to Williams’
plays, said no.
That ending is to a work titled “April is the Cru
dest Month” and not applicable to “Spring Storm,”
Sewanee spokesperson Joe Romano said.
“According to the [Williams’] will, first-class stage
productions must be produced as written," Romano
said. “The play that was approved for production
there was ’Spring Storm’. [“Spring Storm’s” ending]
does not contain any nudity.
“They wanted to use one version of the play and
tack on the ending of another,” he said.
The confusion may have been caused by
Williams’ own notes. According to manuscripts in
the Ransom Center collection, Williams’ considered
using the “April is the Crudest Month” title for
“Spring Storm.”
The disrobing scene would have worked well in
front of a 1990s audience, Bloom said.
“I believe [the ending with nudity] is the proper
ending,” Bloom said. “It’s far superior. It’s a matter
actually of prudishness.”
“It’s basically a
very good watercol-
or painting by
somebody who’s
going to turn into
an old master.”
— Charles Duggan
producer, “Spring Storm”
Daniels
union volt
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LOS ANGELES [AP)-
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Bone Collector brings big returns,
The Bachelor follows distantly
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The
macabre and the marital dominat
ed the weekend box office as the
grisly thriller The Bone Collector
opened in first place, followed by
The Bachelor, according to indus
try estimates released yesterday.
The Bone Collector, starring
Denzel Washington as a bedridden
forensics expert leading the hunt
for a serial killer, had $17.2 million
in ticket sales.
The Bachelor got $8 million
while a Halloween holdover, House
on Haunted Hill, was in third place
with $7.8 million, although its tick
et sales plummeted by more than
half over the previous week.
The tobacco industry drama
The Insider debuted in fourth place
with $7 million.
Overall, grosses for the top films
were off about 30 percent from the
same weekend last year, according
to Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc.
However, that was because
Adam Sandler’s comedy The Wa-
terboy had a record debut in 1998
of nearly $40 million, said Paul Der-
garabedian, president of Exhibitor-
cRelatiogs Co. Inc., wh ch tranks
the vox office.
This weekend actually had good
sales and the year is on track to be
come a record-breaker with a pro
jected gross of $7.4 billion, he said.
1. The Bone Collector — $17.2 million.
2. The Bachelor — $8 million.
3. House on Haunted Hill — $7.8 million.
4. The Insider — $7 million.
5. Double Jeopardy— $4.5 million.
6. The Best Man — $4.3 million.
7. American Beauty — $3.3 million.
8. The Sixth Sense — $3.2 million.
9. Music of the Heart — $3 million.
10. Fight Club — $2.5 million.
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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
McCartney, Mills
to record album
LONDON (AP) — Paul McCartney
said he is helping a former model
who lost a leg in a traffic accident to
campaign for disabled war victims,
but the former Beatle denies reports
he is dating 31-year-old Heather
Mills.
McCartney, whose wife, Linda,
died of cancer in April 1998, said yes
terday he is helping Mills record a
charity album for the Heather Mills
Trust, founded for people who have
lost limbs in war zones.
“I will continue to work with
Heather Mills on the recording pro
ject, and even though this story (of
romance) is not true, I hope it will
bring attention to her worthwhile ef
forts for the disabled worldwide,” Mc
Cartney, 57, said in a statement.
Mills, a former leading swimwear
model in Britain, lost a leg below the
knee when she was struck by a po
lice motorcycle six years ago.
In a TV interview in October, Mc
Cartney said he is open to the pos
sibility of a new relationship but is not
looking.
Michael Eisner
supports scholars
SAN FERNANDO, Calif. (AP) —
Walt Disney Co. Chair Michael Eis
ner’s latest deal is with an 11-year-
old boy.
Eisner personally delivered a con
tract Saturday to Victoriano Lopez Jr..
Victoriano’s part of the deal: a
promise to work hard inseto;
Eisner’s charitablefoundattj
donated $1 mil
lion to Project
GRAD.
Project GRADs
a national piv
gram to inspire
students to gradu
ate from high
school and go on
to college.
The program re
quires participants,
sign schoolwork contractsaoc|
scholarships of up to $6,
er students.
“ It offers a chance for all s‘i
to turn their dreams into real#
ner told about 900 ProjectGEP
unteers.
Prince Andrew
tour Persian Gi
KUWAIT (AP) — Britain's f
Andrew arrived yesterda;
three-day visit, his second
to this oil-rich state and "
British protectorate.
The British Embassy sf|
prince, the son of QueenE
II, will visit the state-owner
Oil Co. and the oil fieldss||
di, an area south of Kuwait
The prince will alsovisj l
play of traditional danc
crafts during his trip.
He also will open ane-
of historic photographs T
aspects of the long-stanc.
close relationship between!
and Kuwait,” the embassy:
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