The Audience Opening Night on Broadway, Mar 8, 2015, NYC

The Audience

Affair: Opening Night of The Audience on Broadway

When: Sunday, March 8, 2015

Hot Spot: Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre , NYC

Deets: For sixty years, Queen Elizabeth II has met with each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a private weekly meeting, a meeting known as The Audience. Academy Award® winner Helen Mirren returns to Broadway, and the throne, in a riveting new play by Peter Morgan, the writer of the Academy Award-nominated film, The Queen. Directed by two-time Tony Award® winner Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, An Inspector Calls), The Audience takes theatregoers behind the walls of Buckingham Palace and into the private chambers of Queen Elizabeth II as she meets with each of her Prime Ministers, from when she was a young mother to now as a Great Grandmother. Through these private audiences, we see glimpses of the woman behind the crown and witness the moments that shaped a monarch.

Cast includes Helen Mirren, Dylan Baker, Geoffrey Beevers, Michael Elwyn,Judith Ivey, Richard McCabe, Rufus Wright, Dakin Matthews, Rod McLachlan,Anthony Cochrane, Graydon Long, Jason Loughlin, Michael Rudko, Henny Russell,Tracy Sallows, Sadie Sink, Elizabeth Teeter and Tony Ward.

Spotted: Helen Mirren, Neil Patrick Harris, David Hyde Pierce, Emily Mortimer, David Geffen, Tyne Daily, Taylor Hackford, Barbara Walters, Tom Brokaw, Tony Bennett, George Takei, Lucy Liu, Paul Rudd, Bobby Cannavale

Hint For The Average Socialite: Tickets are available through telecharge.

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