Arthur Miller Passed Away- Page 2

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 2/11/05 at 1:05pm

We just finished studying The Crucible in class. Death of a Salesman has always been one of my favourite plays. His death is a major loss.

[FabalaCohen]

Posted: 2/11/05 at 1:08pm

I've just picked up "Death of Salesman" again...what an incredible loss to literature, the theatre community and America.

[shira467]

Posted: 2/11/05 at 1:21pm

We've lost an amazing playwright - but as it's been said, he lived a full and amazing life, so there should be no regrets. Marvelous man

[Light My Candle]

Posted: 2/11/05 at 1:36pm

I'm really saddened by this. I liked Arthur Miller's work, he was one of my favorite playwrights. Last year our theatre class read "All My Sons". I enjoyed reading that play, it was great and very emotional. I also did props for my school's production of "The Crucible", that was hard work but it was fun to do.

[eslgr8]

Posted: 2/11/05 at 2:43pm

I just saw The Price again, for the second time. What a wonderful play! And All My Sons is a play that I have seen numerous times, and it never fails to impress me and move me. Arthur Miller didn't rest on his laurels. He was still working at age 89! Ironically, the character of the appraiser in The Price, played brilliantly by 82-year-old Len Lesser in the recent A Noise Within production, is a still vital 89! Like the man who created the character. Arthur Miller will be remembered.

[Elizabeth_DeBris]

Posted: 2/11/05 at 3:11pm

Okay, even though this isn't exactly low on the page, I feel like it should be higher.
There will never be another Arthur Miller. He was truly a legend, and he will be greatly missed.

[bronxboundexpress]

Posted: 2/11/05 at 3:18pm

He will be missed.

[Jess1483]

Posted: 2/11/05 at 3:20pm

This is so sad. He made a profound impact on theater and will be greatly missed.

[Johnnytoc]

Posted: 2/11/05 at 3:25pm

This is so sad. I'm actually currently writing a paper on some of his works. His impact won't be forgotten.

[Light My Candle]

Posted: 2/11/05 at 3:26pm

This is the same way I felt about Marlon Brando... there was one Brando, there was one Miller. And that's that.

[EverythingIsRENT]

Posted: 2/11/05 at 3:39pm

Wow. That really is sad, but im glad he led a full rich life and left us with such great work. I agree a theatre should be named after him.

Wasn't Miller married to Marilyn Monroe at one point, or was that another playwright?

[OtherDaryl]

Posted: 2/11/05 at 3:49pm

Attention Must Be Paid!

January of 1980, it would have been. The ACTF Regional in DeKalb, Illinois. Illinois Wesleyan University was presenting Carol Brandt's definitive production of "Death of a Salesman". It was my introduction to this particular play and just slayed me. These were all undergraduates giving astonishing performances - K.C. Helmeid was Willie and Linda Sterling was Linda. Ron Nixon and Allison LaPlaca (yes, that Allison LaPlaca) were both featured. K.C. was an Irene Ryan nominee.

I was fine until the final scene - completely captivated. As Linda eulogized Willie I lost control. Completely and utterly.

Sitting in my seat, sobbing with great abandon as the audience departed, it took two friends about 45 minutes to get me up and out - they were already striking the set.

The power of that evening still courses through my veins. The power of the text is so great that knowing the denoument doesn't lessen the effect it has on me. Whether it is Helmeid, Hoffman, Nussbaum or Dennehy, dammit I want him to live and thrive.

Thank you, Mr. Miller - may God bless you.

[GovernorSlaton]

Posted: 2/11/05 at 4:05pm

I saw the story on the front page and looked toward the Message Board Listing on the right side of the screen, thinking that a thread commemorating his life would be the first on the list. To my surprise, I found it on the Message Board page, and much farther down than I had hoped. What an incredible man.
Bump.

[CurtainUp]

Posted: 2/11/05 at 4:59pm

RIP to a genius. Certainly there will never be another Crucible or Salesman. Wow.

[Kristin]

Posted: 2/11/05 at 5:02pm

This thread needs to stay near the top.

[Baine]

Posted: 2/11/05 at 5:08pm

This week I started making a one-week lesson plan unit on "The Crucible" in my Methods class for someday when I'm a teacher and want to teach it, and I was telling all of my classmates how fabulous he was and getting the History Majors interested in using the play to teach Salem.....and now he's gone.

An incredible man who will be sorely missed. ;_;

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 2/11/05 at 5:17pm

Rest In Peace Arthur

[etheb]

Posted: 2/11/05 at 6:14pm

I saw this on CNN at the airport and almost lost it. He is an amazing man. And to whomever said they should name a theatre after him, the Arthur Miller Theatre will be opening at the University of Michigan soon.

He will be missed.

[BroadwayBaby21]

Posted: 2/11/05 at 6:21pm

I've only ever read The Crucible, but it has become one of my favorite plays.

Arthur Miller is a great playwright, and will be missed. RIP

[Sister George]

Posted: 2/11/05 at 6:57pm

“Salesman had its first public performance at the Locust Street Theatre in Philadelphia…

…As sometimes happened later on during the run, there was no applause at the final curtain of the first performance. Strange things began to go on in the audience. With the curtain down, Some people stood to put their coats on and then sat again, some, especially men, were bent forward covering their faces, and others were openly weeping. People crossed the theatre to stand quietly talking with one another. It seemed forever before someone remembered to applaud, and then there was no end to it.

“TIMEBENDS – A LIFE”  by Arthur Miller 

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 2/12/05 at 2:43am

One of the the great giants of Western literature and theatre (and probably underappreciated in his time). Salesman, Crucible and his other works will probably be performed around the world for as long as human beings are on the planet. I'm happy he had such a long, healthy, productive life, yet still saddened by his passing.

An all-time great.

[wink]

Posted: 2/12/05 at 8:13am

I had just dug out my copies of "Death of A Salesman" and "The Crucible" last week and gave them to a co-worker who had never read them. God bless Mr. Miller.