A ticket to paradise.
Julia Roberts journeyed to the Nice White Means on Tuesday to attend a preview of her pal George Clooney’s Broadway debut in “Good Night, and Good Luck,” which appeared extra like a gap night time than a mere preview.
The “Erin Brockovich” star, 57, was not the one marquee title who turned out to see Clooney, 63, tread the boards at New York Metropolis’s Winter Backyard Theatre. Anna Wintour, Vogue international editorial director and Condé Nast worldwide chief content material officer, was additionally within the packed home Tuesday night time.
The night was a household affair for Roberts, who introduced her husband Danny Moder, 56, and son Henry, 17, to cheer on her “Ocean’s 11” co-star.
The trio sat within the heart left orchestra row G, an eyewitness instructed The Publish, whereas Wintour, 75, watched from one seat off the aisle within the heart left orchestra row H.
“Julia and her family were whisked to their aisle seats just before the lights went down, so nobody had time to so much as say ‘hello,’” the eyewitness shared.
The theatre-goer added, “Even Anna Wintour didn’t get to talk to her.”
An adaptation of Clooney’s 2005 Oscar-nominated movie of the identical title, “Good Night, and Good Luck” formally opened Thursday. The play follows legendary journalist and information anchor Edward R. Murrow’s public conflict with Senator Joseph McCarthy in the course of the latter’s reign of terror as head of the anti-communist HUAC committee.
Clooney, who directed, co-wrote and starred within the film as Murrow’s co-producer Fred W. Pleasant, this time performs the famed newsman within the David Cromer-directed stage adaptation.
After Tuesday night time’s efficiency, the “Pretty Woman” actress and her household exited by the stage door to cheers from followers gathered hoping to see Clooney, who stopped to signal autographs when he emerged.
Roberts made a beeline for a ready automotive after leaving the theater, although she waved to the group and beamed her well-known megawatt smile earlier than being whisked away.
The star has skilled Broadway from the opposite facet of the orchestra, starring within the 2006 revival of Richard Greenberg’s 1997 play, “Three Days of Rain.” Nonetheless, Roberts was walloped by critics for her efficiency.
“Hated the play. To be sadly honest, even hated her,” The Publish’s Clive Barnes wrote on the time. “At least I liked the rain – even if three days of it can seem an eternity.”
The Oscar-winner has starred alongside Clooney one other in 7 movies, together with “Ocean’s Eleven” (2001), “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” (2002), “Ocean’s Twelve” (2004), “Ocean’s Thirteen” (2007), “Money Monster” (2016), and “Ticket to Paradise” (2022).
