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Glenn Fleshler and George Clooney in
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Credit: Emilio Madrid |
CNN will broadcast live the penultimate performance of
Good Night and Good Luck, George Clooney and Grant Heslov's play based on their screenplay, from the Winter Garden Theater on June 7 at 7pm (the night before the Tony Awards.) The press release states this is first time a play will be broadcast live from a Broadway theater. I seem to recall PBS airing a transmission of
The Man Who Came to Dinner from the American Airlines Theater (now the Todd Haimes), but maybe that was a recording. There also have been telecasts of
She Loves Me on PBS,
South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza and
Contact on Live from Lincoln Center (I think these were recordings also, but I'm not sure). In 1982, NBC presented a series of live broadcasts of plays but not from Broadway. These included Tom Selleck in
Mister Roberts and Pearl Bailey in
Member of the Wedding. In recent years there have been live productions of musicals such as
Grease, The Wiz, Peter Pan, The Sound of Music and
Hairspray, but those were in TV studios, sometimes with live audiences. There was also a live broadcast of
Show Girl starring Carol Channing on Canadian pay TV in 1961.
The telecast will include a pre-show coverage outside the theater and a post-show special discussing the perilous state of world journalism.
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