In addition to reading the role of Willy Loman, Miller supplied stage directions and explained his rationale for picking the featured scenes. Loman, Mildred Dunnock, to read selections from the script before a live audience at Manhattan’s 92nd Street YMCA. On February 2, 1955, Arthur Miller joined Salesman’s first Mrs. (Willy’s wife, Linda, with her famous graveside admonition that “attention must be paid,” is considered no less of a plum part.) Scott, and Philip Seymour Hoffman have all had a go at Willy Loman, a role still associated with the towering Lee J. Small wonder that the titular part has become a grail of sorts for aging leading men eager to be taken seriously.
Robert Falls, Artistic Director of Chicago’s Goodman Theater, brings the experience of dozens of productions to bear when he describes it as the only play that “sends men weeping into the Men’s room.”
Playwright Arthur Miller recalled that when the curtain fell on the first performance, there were “men in the audience sitting there with handkerchiefs over their faces. 1949’s Death of a Salesman is one of the most enduring plays in the American canon, a staple of both community and professional theater.
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