Article: Jessica Lange talks of Tennessee Williams _ and of Amanda, Blanche and Maggie

MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Writer
AP Worldstream
04-15-2005
Dateline: NEW YORK
Talk about ghosts.

In the darkened gloom of an empty Gramercy Park restaurant before the dinner crowd arrives, Jessica Lange sits at a corner table, sips a cup of coffee and talks about the extraordinary women created by Tennessee Williams. She's played her share of them.

Blanche DuBois, Maggie the Cat (on film) and now Amanda Wingfield, the domineering mother who propels "The Glass Menagerie," the heartbreaking family drama that 60 years ago brought Williams his first New York success.

This memory play, starring Lange, is back on Broadway, with Christian Slater as Tom, the errant son who longs to escape the ...

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