''Till the Day I Die'' is a play by

Clifford Odets Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 – August 14, 1963) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. In the mid-1930s, he was widely seen as the potential successor to Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill, as O'Neill began to withdra ...

performed on

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in 1935.

Description

The play is a seven-scene drama written by

. It was originally written as a piece to accompany ''

Waiting for Lefty ''Waiting for Lefty'' is a 1935 play by the American playwright Clifford Odets; it was his first play to be produced. Consisting of a series of related vignettes, the entire play is framed by a meeting of cab drivers who are planning a labor ...

''.

Productions

It was produced by the Group Theatre and staged by Cheryl Crawford, and ran for 136 performances from March 26, 1935, to July 1935 at the

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. When the New Theatre in Sydney, tried to stage it in 1936, following its production of ''Waiting for Lefty'' earlier that year, the German

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in Australia complained to the

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and the play was banned. However the theatre defied the ban and staged the play in private premises, and (after a similar controversy), it was staged to large audiences in

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's New Theatre.

Terminology

The play contains the first documented use of the phrase "male chauvinism".

Broadway cast

* Margaret Barker as Tillie * Abner Biberman as fourth Orderly *

Roman Bohnen Roman Aloys Bohnen (November 24, 1901 – February 24, 1949) was an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the films ''Of Mice and Men'' (1939), '' The Song of Bernadette'' (1943), and ''The Best Years of Our Lives'' (194 ...

as Major Duhring *

Lee J. Cobb Lee J. Cobb (born Leo Jacoby; December 8, 1911February 11, 1976) was an American actor, known both for film roles and his work on the Broadway stage. He often played arrogant, intimidating and abrasive characters, but he also acted as respectabl ...

as Detective Popper *

William Challee William John Challee (April 6, 1904 – March 11, 1989) was an American actor. Biography Challee was born in Chicago and was a student at Lake View High School. Challee appeared on Broadway by 1926 and by 1931 in early Group Theatre produc ...

as Edsel Peltz * Russell Collins as Schlupp * Walter Coy as Karl Taussig * George Heller as Secretary * Elia Kazan as Baum and as other prisoner * Alexander Kirkland as Ernst Taussig * David Kortchmar as Zeltner and as second detective * Gerrit Kraber as third orderly and as first detective * Lewis Leverett as Captain Schlegel * Bob Lewis as Martin and as an orderly * Lee Martin as Stieglitz * Paula Miller as woman * Paul Morrison as other prisoner * Ruth Nelson as woman * Dorothy Patten as Frau Duhring * Wendell K. Phillips as boy * Herbert Ratner as Adolph * Samuel Roland as first orderly and as Arno * Eunice Stoddard as Zelda * Harry Stone as another orderly and as second orderly * Bernard Zanville as Julius

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Till the Day I die Broadway plays Plays by Clifford Odets 1935 plays