How about a hot pair of cat-eye glasses, a Rat Pack-inspired suit, or a cocktail dress worthy of a femme fatale?

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And Oscar-nominated James Earl Jones won outstanding featured actor in a play for his role in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

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"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" was 15 years in the making.

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Durning amassed several important Broadway credits, including playing Big Daddy in a 1990 revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and opposite George C Scott in Inherit the Wind in 1996.

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Johansson, currently starring in a Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, said the audition for Les Miserables "brought back so many memories" from when she tried out for the role of Cosette as a child.

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Mr. Byrd estimates that New York audiences for his "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" were 70% to 80% African-American, slightly better than the turnout for "Stick Fly, " the chronicle of an affluent black family during a complicated weekend on Martha's Vineyard.

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Go-Go, Fran explains, is the cat, their cat, who recently contracted a hot spot.

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