![]() The fifth Broadway production of “Death of A Salesman,” with Philip Seymour Hoffman as Willy Loman, has opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in the same month when “Mad Men” begins its fifth season.īoth focus on a morally challenged salesman (albeit different kinds of salesmen), and explore the dark side of the business world. He cuts a glamorous profile as he meets with celebrated figures from the era, such as hotel magnate Conrad Hilton, and works with actual brand name products in the first episode of the first season, it is Lucky Strike cigarettes.ĭo we ever learn precisely what product Willy Loman is selling wholesale to retail buyers up and down the Northeast? It is something his wife recognizes about him: “A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man,” Linda tells their two children in “Death of A Salesman.” But this is nothing Loman can admit.ĭon Draper of “Mad Men” does not have to admit to being ordinary, because he is not. Willy Loman is something no American wants to be – average. Mad Men, the TV series to which I compared Miller’s play, ran seven seasons on AMC, from July 19, 2007, to May 17, 2015. ![]() A day before opening night of the sixth Broadway production of Arthur Miller’s 1949 plays seems a good time to resurrect my review of the fifth production which opened on March 15th, 2012 starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and directed by Mike Nichols (both of whom died two years later.) The production won Tony Awards for best revival of a play and best director. ![]()
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