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Virginia Woolf: Afraid
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There have been two major theatrical revivals of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf since its original Broadway production. Both were directed by Edward Albee himself. The play was first revived in 1976 on Broadway. Its stars, Colleen Dewhurst and Ben Gazzara, were both nominated for Tony Awards for their performances. Only fourteen years after the initial production, American was a far different place. Watergate, Vietnam, and the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, had all made America a much more cynical place politically.
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The original George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Man of La Mancha's first Dulcinea. The woman who created the part of Miss Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls. The original April in Company. The creator of Serafina Delle Rose in The Rose Tattoo. Da himself.
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Nonetheless, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and the Tony Award for Best Play that year. Albee has won three Pulitzers in years since. The production, which ran at the Billy Rose Theatre, featured Uta Hagen as Martha, Arthur Hill as George, George Grizzard as Nick, and Melinda Dillon as Honey, and was directed by Alan Schneider.
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Irwin won the Tony Award for his performance on Broadway in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. A writer, director and clown (!), he ... has several Tony nominations under his belt for his show Largely New York. He has been on the stages of America and in film and TV for many years.
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