By M. Barranger
From Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers to Arthur Kopit and Brian Friel, agent Audrey wooden inspired and guided the original skills of playwrights within the Broadway theatre of her day. Her quiet decision and burning enthusiasm introduced America's most interesting mid-century playwrights to prominence and changed level background.
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In her spare time, she held conferences with writers to address the early stages of their work, went to lunch at the Dorset Café or Sardi’s with producers to discuss options, attended staged readings of her clients’ plays, and saw new plays by playwrights in need of agents. Despite years of theatergoing, Audrey operated largely on instinct and intuition—“a green light flashing in her head”—as she called her moments of inspiration when deciding to take on a playwright’s script. She frequently explained to interviewers that she could pick up a new script by an author whose work was unfamiliar, and within the first ten pages or so, she usually knew whether or not she was reading the work of someone with talent.
33 During preparations for the December opening of A Streetcar Named Desire, Audrey’s workload for her client was intensified by a regional production of Summer and Smoke at Margo Jones’s theater-in-the-round in Dallas. 34 Praised by friends, fans, and show business people, Margo Jones wanted to produce and direct Summer and Smoke for Broadway. 35 Williams had promised his friend that she could also direct the play and he kept his word. Ten months after the successful arrival on Broadway of A Streetcar Named Desire, Summer and Smoke received a chilly critical reception at the Music Box Theatre.
The obstacles to the interfaith marriage were, namely, Liebling’s Jewish heritage and Ida Wood’s devotion to the Lutheran Church. The couple was determined to marry first and deal with their parents later. On February 12, 1938, they stood before a justice of the peace in Armonk, New York, and once back in Manhattan, continued to live apart. Liebling sequestered Audrey’s ring and the marriage license in his hotel room. After three weeks of this arrangement, Audrey was determined to change the situation.