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Play Guide [1.2MB PDF] - Arizona Theatre Company

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TIME<br />

Social Trends:<br />

• Popularity of the movies (by 1930, 90,000,000 people<br />

attended the movies weekly, including Tom Wingfi eld)<br />

• Billie Holiday gains popularity for her “cool” jazz<br />

• Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture gets noticed<br />

• Workers’ Unions are on the rise<br />

• The New York Yankees win the World Series<br />

• Howard Johnson’s starts the trend of franchised restaurants<br />

The Glass Menagerie<br />

Political Events:<br />

• Franklin D. Roosevelt is the President of the U.S.<br />

• Neville Chamberlain becomes the British Prime Minister<br />

• Japan invades China (the attack that some mark as the fi rst<br />

battle of World War II)<br />

• At Francisco Franco’s request for support, Adolph Hitler<br />

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd<br />

bombs Guernica<br />

President of the United States<br />

Financial Issues:<br />

• Franklin D. Roosevelt states, “I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished”<br />

• Business activity suffers a sharp drop<br />

• The Miller-Tydings Act allows manufacturers to fi x the resale prices of brand-name<br />

merchandise<br />

Even musical groups have noticed the moving story of The Glass<br />

Menagerie and used the play as inspiration for lyrics:<br />

BRAND NEW COLONY<br />

lyrics by The Postal Service<br />

I’ll be the grapes fermented,<br />

Bottled and served with the table set in my fi nest suit<br />

Like a perfect gentlemen<br />

I’ll be the fi re escape that’s bolted to the ancient brick<br />

Where you will sit and contemplate your day<br />

I’ll be the waterwings that save you if you start drowning<br />

In an open tab when your judgement’s on the brink<br />

I’ll be the phonograph that plays your favorite<br />

Albums back as you’re lying there drifting off to sleep…<br />

I’ll be the platform shoes and undo what heredity’s done to you…<br />

You won’t have to strain to look into my eyes<br />

I’ll be your winter coat buttoned and zipped straight to the throat<br />

With the collar up so you won’t catch a cold<br />

I want to take you far from the cynics in this town<br />

And kiss you on the mouth<br />

<strong>Arizona</strong> <strong>Theatre</strong> <strong>Company</strong> <strong>Play</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> 10

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