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John Glover is devilishly jaunty as the possibly imaginary vision of Willy’s successful brother. Molly Price is raucous as all get-out as Willy’s shameless lady friend in Boston. Remy Auberjonois, Bill Camp and Stephanie Janssen deftly depict other characters. Designer Ann Roth’s mostly late 1940s clothes dresses everyone suitably.

A blue-ribbon production in every way, the revival especially benefits from the melancholy quality of North’s jazzy music and the vintage visual magic of Mielziner’s skeletal rendering of the shabby Loman house, which is somberly lit by Brian MacDevitt. Photos of the original show do not disclose how the house is flanked by stylized trees that appear to raise their limbs to the heavens in supplication for this dying salesman and his disillusioned existence. Now you can see and be moved by that subtle plea for pity.

“Death of a Salesman” continues through June 2 at the Ethel Barrymore Theater, 243 W. 47th St., New York. Call (212) 239-6200 or visit www.deathofasalesmanbroadway.com.