Arthur Miller Passed Away — Page 2

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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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. ;_;

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.

“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

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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.