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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Trivia

Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge

Edward Albee goes to see a movie on the opening night of his plays. (Source)

The play's working title was The Exorcism.

Edward Albee is named after his adopted grandfather, who was a powerful vaudeville producer. (Source)

Before Albee hit it big, he worked as an office boy, a record salesman, and as a messenger for Western Union. (Source)

Albee couldn't get any America producers to back his first play The Zoo Story. After it was a hit in Germany, though, the producers came a knockin'. (Source)