George Clooney Takes First Broadway Bow asGood Night, and Good LuckPlay Begins Performances
Mar. 15, 2025George Clooney (center) and the cast of ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ on Broadway.Photo:Emilio Madrid
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Emilio Madrid
Welcome to Broadway,George Clooney!
The Oscar-winning actor on Wednesday, March 12 officially made his Broadway debut, as preview performances began for the stage adaptation of his 2005 movie,Good Night, and Good Luck.
Afterwards, Clooney was snapped signing autographs to eager theatergoers.
Earlier on Wednesday, producers released a photographic portrait ofthe play’s massive caston stage the famed locale, as well as a production shot from the play.
George Clooney signs autographs after making his Broadway debut in ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’.Emilio Madrid
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Good Night, and Good Luck, like the film, recounts the real-life story of CBS news journalist Edward R. Murrow’s legendary exposé on Senator Joseph McCarthy. The play, head of an opening night of Thursday, April 3.
On screen, Clooney played producer Fred Friendly, but on stage, he’ll step into the shoes of Murrow — the role that earned David Strathairn a 2006 Oscar nomination.
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The cast of ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ on Broadway.Emilio Madrid
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R. Ward Duffy, Joe Forbrich, Imani Rousselle, Greg Stuhr, JD Taylor, and Sophia Tzougros round out the ensemble.
George Clooney (center) in ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ on Broadway.EMILIO MADRID
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EMILIO MADRID
This is Clooney’s first stage work since 1986’sVicious, a play about the life of Sid Vicious he did in Los Angeles and later, at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre. His work in the play, as a male prostitute drug dealer, famously earned him his first agent and on-camera work.
While Clooney co-wroteGood Night, and Good Luck— both the film and the play, and both with Grant Heslov — the actor has said that memorizing his lines has been “a nightmare.”
“I don’t remember my kids names!” joked Clooney, who shares 7-year-old twinsAlexander and Ellawith wifeAmal, during an appearance onThe Late Show with Stephen Colbertin February. “I’m 63!”
“It’s weird. When I didER, we’d do 12 pages a day of medical dialogue and you could just come in and whip it out. I was 30 years [old],” Clooney added, before demonstrating his recall of the phrase “supraventricular tachycardia” which he said he’s “never gotten wrong since” doing the 1994 drama. “Now I can’t remember anything!”
“Honest to God, literally, these are very famous speeches that Murrow wrote and I start to do them and I just sit there going, ‘Uhhh… I don’t remember,’ " Clooney continued. “It’s sheer panic.”
Tickets forGood Night, and Good Luckare nowon sale.
source: people.com
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