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This undated theater image released by Boneau/Bryan-Brown shows Scarlett Johansson during a performance of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," playing at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York. (AP Photo/Boneau/Bryan-Brown, Joan Marcus)
This undated theater image released by Boneau/Bryan-Brown shows Scarlett Johansson during a performance of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," playing at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York. (AP Photo/Boneau/Bryan-Brown, Joan Marcus)

Scarlett Johansson knew there had been other Broadway revivals of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" recently, in 2008 and in 2003, but so what? She wanted to play Tennessee Williams's famed Maggie the Cat on Broadway. Her only worry about timing, she recalled, was a tight window between wrapping movies in 2012 and filming a "Captain America" sequel in 2013.

Broadway was happy to accommodate.

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