New Broadway "Streetcar" Takes Route Through a Multi-Racial New Orleans

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Channel: Playbill · 2012 · Entertainment

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http://www.playbill.com/multimedia/video Director Emily Mann (Broadway's "Having Our Say," "Anna in the Tropics") had a lifelong ambition to direct "A Streetcar Named Desire." Blair Underwood always considered Stanley Kowalski one of the three foremost  
characters in American theatre. With Nicole Ari Parker (Blanche DuBois), Wood Harris
(Mitch) and Daphne Rubin-Vega (Stella) accompanying Underwood's Stanley, Tennessee Williams' drama about faded beauty, romantic delusion and violent urges is re-imagined for Broadway in a multi-racial landscape. With an eye toward bringing out black New Orleans, Mann and company are confident the casting will mesh "perfectly" with Williams' themes of survival, endurance and ambition.

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