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Wingfield into the paradise she briefly thought was hers but, instead, the song
marks her finale, and her brother’s, to make a dream come true.
Over the decades, numerous composers have scored original compositions
for stage and film productions of The Glass Menagerie. Max Steiner wrote the
music for the first Glass Menagerie on film (1950), starring Jane Wyman and
Kirk Douglas; and Henry Mancini provided scores that heightened the
performances of Joanne Woodward and John Malkovich in The Glass
Menagerie screenplay released in 1988. Moreover, numerous songs and dance
productions have been inspired by Williams’s memory play, including the works
of the pop/punk band from Boston christening itself The Glass Menagerie. But,
however creative and evocative these musical and choreographed performances
have been, they must all defer to Williams’s intentions to include three titled
popular dance hall tunes at key points in the script of The Glass Menagerie that
brought him worldwide success.
University of Southern Mississippi
Philip C. Kolin
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