Comes A Day (1958 tryout)

Charles Nolte’s intense dramatic tragedy 'Comes a Day' mounted a highly publicized, volatile pre-Broadway out-of-town tryout engagement before its New York run. The claustrophobic plot unfolds inside a fading midwestern home, tracking a financially desperate family who attempts to secure their future status by pressure-marrying their beautiful daughter to Tydings Glenn, a wealthy, seemingly immaculate young businessman, collapsing into horrific crisis when he is revealed to be a cold-blooded, pathologically detached sadist. Directed by Robert Mulligan at the Ambassador Theatre in 1958, the historic production starred Judith Anderson alongside a young George C. Scott in his explosive, career-launching Broadway debut.