| re: Rather big error in Times obit for Carter | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 04:41 pm EDT 04/29/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Rather big error in Times obit for Carter - larry13 02:07 pm EDT 04/29/24 | |
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| Someone named Eli Rill, who was said to be a protégé of Elia Kazan, was announced to direct. Harvey Garrick was to co-produce with Terry Carter. As mentioned in the Times, Hilda Simms was to play Blanche. I can find no announcements of any other cast members. According to several press reports, the production was initially postponed because they couldn't find the right actor for Stanley. Then they lost the theatre — the Carnegie Hall Playhouse, which I believe was in the same space that later became the Carnegie Hall Cinema — because of the delay. Then it was announced that Williams, who had approved the production, wanted it postponed because it would open too close in time to Sweet Bird of Youth, but by this time, the production had already been announced as being postponed because of casting problems. Then in the summer of 1959, Hilda Simms played Blanche in stock in Wisconsin with an otherwise white cast. In September 1959, Dorothy Kilgallen reported that Terry Carter would be playing Stanley in an all-black Streetcar if Williams approved. Then two weeks later, she reported that although Carter was enthusiastic about playing Stanley, he had been offered the role of the sailor in the Broadway production of A Taste of Honey. The unstated implication was that he would do that instead, but Billy Dee Williams ended up in the role. That's the last I find about it. |
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