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We even had sleepovers to run lines and deepen our connection with each other and our characters. He is such a sweetheart and great talent, that we felt like brothers from the jump. Even when Bradford came on board to play Happy, it was an easy connection. The easiest thing for me and the Loman family, I’d say, was developing that loving family connection with each other because we are all friends and love each other in real life. How did you prepare? How challenging was it to make your character your own?įreddy: Well, we prepared as a group doing table work for a month before getting into the theatre and getting the play up on its feet for the couple weeks we had before opening. PC: There have been many interpretations of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. The characters may change, but the story remains the same. At the end of April, our version of this classic will be history and the mantle of the tale will go on with future Lomans, Bens, Howards, Charleys, Bernards, and the others into coming decades and social evolutions. We have poured our hearts and souls into this iconic show and hope to see you there. I hope you have a chance to revisit this story or experience if for the first time at The Secret Rose Theatre this April. It contains the magic of story-telling and the universal connection that we experience in our own lives on the daily, even the moment to moment time frame. That is the wonder, the wonder of this play. There are people that have seen this play dozens of times and the dozen or more audience members I spoke with this weekend were having their first Death of a Salesman experience. This play has been performed tens of thousands of times in theatres large and small: high school auditoriums, several Broadway runs, and every imaginable venue in between. The technology of the time simultaneously made life better and worse, much like the exponential technology shift that has taken place over the last twenty-five years. In fact, the only thing that is constant is change.
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Many changes have occurred since Death of a Salesman began in 1949. The themes in this play are universal and timeless: relationships, desire, the quest for acceptance, how our evolving lives may support or destroy us family as it is now, as we hope it could be, as we remember it, truth and however each have our interpretation of reality. Did Arthur Miller imagine this story would have relevance and meaning in 2019? I somehow think he did.
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Kevin: Cracking open my script to dive into the nearly ten thousand words that Willy Loman uses to tell his part of the Death of a Salesman story, I reflect on the magnitude of the impact of this old told tale over the past seventy years. What does it mean to you to be part of this milestone/production? PC: It’s the 70th anniversary of Death of a Salesman. Pop Culturalist spoke with lead actors, Kevin McCorkle (Willy Loman), Jules Bruff (Linda Loman), Freddy Giorlando (Biff Loman), and Bradford James Jackson (Happy Loman) about the iconic play. With it widely considered one of the greatest plays of the 20th century, the Secret Rose Theatre in North Hollywood is commemorating the milestone and the legendary playwright with a four-week run of the show, now through the end of April. Arthur Miller’s timeless classic, Death of a Salesman, is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year.