page_title: Twigs (play)
section_title: Production
hierarchical_section_title: Twigs (play) / Production
caption_attribution_description: English: Carol Burnett &amp; Liam Dunn in the TV movie Twigs - publicity still (cropped)
context_page_description: Twigs is a play by George Furth which premiered on Broadway in 1971.
context_section_description: Furth wrote his play intending it to be a tour de force for a single actress playing all four roles. The title is derived from the quote "Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined", written by Alexander Pope in his Moral Essays in 1773.
  The play premiered on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre on November 14, 1971 (previews from November 9) and transferred to the Plymouth Theatre on January 5, 1972, closing on July 23, 1972 after 289 performances and 7 previews. Directed by Michael Bennett, the cast included Sada Thompson, Conrad Bain, and Simon Oakland; Bob Avian was production assistant. Thompson won both the Tony and the Drama Desk Award for her performance.
  Stephen Sondheim provided incidental music, including a song for Celia titled "Hollywood and Vine". Sondheim wrote: "George [Furth] asked me to write a song for Celia, who mid-scene is reminiscing about a number she had sung in her movie days."
  Some of the plays used in Twigs originally were written for the musical Company.
  The Los Angeles Times, in Sada Thompson's obituary, quoted Walter Kerr: she "does not simply give a stunning performance. She gives four of them." According to Furth's obituary in The New York Times, the play received mixed reviews, but Walter Kerr "called its four interconnected pieces 'funny and touching and freshly conceived.' "
caption: Carol Burnett and Liam Dunn in the TV adaptation, 1975
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