In the Beginning
The original
production was in 1980 and 1981.
Susan
Sarandon played Maude ( the uptight and yet wild) housewife from Westchester, and
Eileen
Brennan played Hannah the blowsy next door neighbor who just moved in from Texas.
The
two characters have assumptions about one another. Mae is determined to crack
Maude’s uptight
shell and Maude refuses to play along.
Both bond
because of their husband trouble.