February 5-21, 2010
at the Hudson Guild Theatre
441 West 26th Street (Btw. 9th & 10th Aves.)
Mr. Williams’ highly theatrical and evocative “Ghost play” about the tumultuous marriage and creative lives of Zelda & Scott Fitzgerald. CLOTHES FOR A SUMMER HOTEL, which opened in NYC on March 26, 1980, was Mr. Williams’ last Broadway production and has rarely been staged since. Filled with music and dance of the jazz age, the play fuses the past and the present in a theatrical tour-de-force as Zelda and Scott re-visit their youth and the ghosts of characters (including Ernest Hemingway) who helped shape their existence.
A post-show moderated discussion was held following the February 14 performance with renowned Tennessee Williams scholar Dr. Annette J. Saddik and Dr. Nancy Milford. Dr. Saddik is an Associate Professor in the English Department at New York City College of Technology (CUNY), a teacher in the Ph.D. Program in Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center and the author of Contemporary American Drama and The Politics of Reputation: The Critical Reception of Tennessee Williams’ Later Plays. Dr. Milford’s Zelda was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and spent twenty-nine weeks on The New York Times best-seller list.
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Jennifer-Scott Mobley (Moderator), Dr. Nancy Milford, Dr. Annette J. Saddik and Cyndy A. Marion (Producing Artistic Director)
Jennifer-Scott Mobley (Moderator), Dr. Nancy Milford, Dr. Annette J. Saddik and Vanessa R. Bombardieri (Director of New Play Development)
