Word: charley
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Start, La., a town, he says, that consisted of "a cotton gin, a couple churches and a school or two." Tim's father Horace Smith, a trucker, would take his son on runs, a load of cottonseed in the back, eight-track tapes of Johnny Paycheck and Charley Pride in the front. "By the time I was six," says McGraw, "I felt as if I knew the words to every album Merle Haggard ever recorded...
WILLY: The Supreme Court! And he didn't even mention it! CHARLEY: He don't have to--he's gonna...
...CHARLEY: A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory...
...famous eulogy that closes the play is perhaps its cruelest joke. Despite Charley's attempt to ennoble him, Willy's downfall is unrelievedly bleak. (Hardly anyone even shows up at his funeral!) "My God, it's so sad," director Elia Kazan exclaimed to Miller after reading the play for the first time. "It's supposed to be sad," Miller replied. That it continues to fascinate us is testimony to Miller's ability to pack so much--heartbreaking family drama, an Ibsenian tragedy of illusions shattered, an indictment of American capitalism--into one beaten-down figure with a sample case. After...
Ultimately, the performance had an overall fairy tale-like atmosphere amply reinforced by the bright, pastel set, as well as the lovely Gilded Age costumes by designer Jana Howland. Maybe Where's Charley is an oldie, but it definitely is still a goodie...