George Clooney’s “Good Night, and Good Luck” is about to make theater historical past.
The Broadway manufacturing has damaged field workplace information left and proper because it opened April 3. And now, the play goes someplace a Broadway play has by no means gone earlier than: reside TV.
Producers of the play introduced an historic transfer to air a reside efficiency on CNN subsequent month. The printed will mark the primary time a present has ever been telecast from a Broadway theater.
The announcement comes as a aid to many Broadway followers who cannot afford the $300 common ticket worth to see Clooney’s debut on the Nice White Manner.
“I can’t let you know how thrilling it’s to do one thing that’s by no means been achieved. CNN is the proper place to convey this story of braveness to so many extra folks than we may have ever hoped. Dwell TV. No internet. Buckle up everybody,” Clooney stated in an announcement.
The efficiency is scheduled to air reside on June 7, the night time earlier than the present makes its last bow.
Hours after the ultimate efficiency of “Good Night, and Good Luck,” Broadway’s finest will obtain Tony Awards a couple of blocks away at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor.
The play is up for 5 awards, together with main actor in a play for Clooney.
“Good Night, and Good Luck” at the moment boasts huge income numbers for a play. Its producers not too long ago introduced that the present had turn into the highest-grossing play in Broadway historical past and the primary to gross $4 million in a single week.
