George Clooney allows a large number of people to see his appearance in Broadway Good night and good luck: CNN will broadcast the penultimate live representation of the Winter Garden Theater from Broadway on June 7.
This marks the first time that Broadway performance has been a television live. After live production at 7 p.m. HE, CNN will organize a special to discuss the production and state of world journalism.
In Good night and good luckClooney made his Broadway debut as Edward R. Murrow. While the McCarthismsm throws a shadow on America, Murrow and his press team choose to face the growing wave of paranoia and propaganda, even if it means transforming the federal government and a worried nation against them.
Production closes its theatrical race with a performance in the morning on Sunday June 8.
“I can’t tell you how exciting it is to do something that has never been done,” Clooney said in a statement. “CNN is the ideal place to bring this story of courage to so many people that we would never have hoped.
Den of Thieves produces the live show. Executive producers are Clooney, Deena Katz, Grant Heslov, Jeff Skoll and Todd Wagner, as well as Jesse Ignjatovic, Evan Prager and Barb Bialkowski from Den of Thieves. Grant is co -director with Bickham Micah.
Good night and good luck has exceeded the record of the box office previously held by The man of music (with 9 performances) on Broadway and is now the most profitable production in the history of the Shubert organization. He recently received five Tony Award’s nominations, the best performance of a leading actor in a room for Clooney.
Clooney is well aware of the power of live television performance. In 2000, he titled a live television of the room Security failure This with Richard Dreyfuss, Harvey Keitel and Noah Wyle. He was broadcast in black and white on CBS.
And that was his idea – with Anthony Edwards – to make a live television of a Er Episode in 1997. “Ambush” launched the fourth season of the NBC drama and was filmed live for the East and West coast. It was seen by 42.7 million viewers.
