The Times critic writes that because of the cast’s racial makeup, DeLong’s characters become more than a foil in the usual sense. The more time I spend with it, the more I am just in awe of what Arthur Miller did in constructing this play.” “I think it might be the greatest play of all time. “It changed me, seeing him do that,” DeLong says. “What they were able to do in terms of telling the story this way is nothing short of genius,” says DeLong, who, in 1995, saw Hal Holbrook ( Into the Wild, Mark Twain) play Willy in Death of a Salesman at Fort Worth’s Casa Mañana Playhouse. Other than that, Miller’s 70-year-old script remains practically unchanged, DeLong says. In this version, Willy’s son Biff ’s prospective college is changed from University of Virginia to UCLA, because the former did not allow Black students before 1950. The director of the latest iteration, Miranda Cromwell, brings a “notably rich” production to stage, according to New York Times critic Jesse Green. Lake Highlands native Blake DeLong plays two characters in the mostly white world in which the washed-up salesman operates.ĭeLong is double cast as Loman’s boss Howard and Stanley the waiter.ĭeath of a Salesman, which premiered on Broadway in 1949, is about an aging traveling salesman’s descent into madness and toxicity as he realizes his lifelong pursuit of the American dream was futile.
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