BITCHES AND WITCHES.('Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,' Music Box Theater, New York, New York; 'Wicked,' Gershwin Theater, New York, New York)(Theater Review)

"I'm a peculiar blend of the Pragmatist and the Romanticist and the crocodile. The Monster," Tennessee Williams said. After the triumph in 1947 of "A Streetcar Named Desire," he dedicated himself to his own greatness; the result was a moral and emotional attrition, which his plays increasingly registered. "I grow less integrated," Williams wrote to a friend in 1950. "I am more alone and more lost than I ever was, and know hundreds more people!" By the time he began to write his masterpiece of the mid-fifties, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," now in a superb revival at the Music Box, his tally of losses included three consecutive critical failures--"Summer and Smoke," "The Rose ...