Angelina Jolie and Daughter Vivienne Join Kristen Bell at ‘Reefer Madness: The Musical’ Opening Night

Angelina Jolie and her daughter, Viviennecontinue to show their love for the theater community!

On Thursday, the 48-year-old Oscar winner and her 15-year-old daughter attended the opening night of Reefer Madness: The Musical in Los Angeles, smiling for photos alongside Kristen Bell, who starred in the film whose staging is adapted. The trio smiled for the camera on the carpet before heading into the musical on which Bell, 43, is a producer.

The night at the theater comes a day after ET reported that Vivienne — who recently produced the Broadway production of The foreigners — I dropped the last name from his father, Brad Pitt, from his hyphenated nickname. In the Playbill, she chose to be credited simply as “Vivienne Jolie” rather than her previous “Vivienne Jolie-Pitt”.

The change comes five years after his parents finalized their separation, but it’s unclear if the decision is stylistic for Vivienne or if she also legally changed her name. Pitt, 60, and Jolie – who were together for 12 years – also share Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 17, and Vivienne’s twin brother Knox, 15.

Jolie and Vivienne’s outing is also just another evening of theater for the mother-daughter duo who recently attended the premiere of The foreigners at the Jacobs Theater in New York. Last month, the actress and her youngest daughter smiled to Pictures with the cast and crew of the musical they helped bring to Broadway.

In August, ET shared that Jolie and Vivienne were teaming up to produce the series after attending a production of the musical at San Diego’s La Jolla Playhouse in 2023. At the time, a source shared that the duo had found a shared love for musical theater. theater and dramatic arts.

In a declaration to ETJolie gave her own reason for boarding the production and bringing Vivienne along.

“Viv reminds me of my mother (Marcheline Bertrand) in the sense that she doesn’t seek to be the center of attention but to be a support for other creatives,” Jolie said. “She is very thoughtful and serious about theater and works hard to better understand how to contribute to it.”

A source shared that for mother and daughter, this would most likely be the first of many collaborations together, as Jolie was excited to bring Vivienne into the fold after taking her to the theater “since she was little.”

The musical is an adaptation of The foreigners book, written by SE Hinton and published in 1967. The story explores the conflict between two rival gangs divided by their socio-economic status: the working-class “Greasers” and the upper-class “Socs”. The film adaptation featured Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe And Tom Cruise and was led by Francis Ford Coppola.

In 2023, the source noted of the project: “Angelina and Vivienne then met SE Hinton, who was around Vivienne’s age when she wrote the novel. After seeing the series and the conversation with SE Hinton, Angelina was inspired to serve as lead producer for the upcoming Broadway launch.

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