Inside George Clooney’s ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ Broadway Opening

Sit seven ranks from the theater in “Good Night, and we wish you success” in Broadway, and you are obligated to pick up a whiff of cigarette smoke.

Cigarettes – fading pulse in the fourth property – occupied the highest bills during the first show of Thursday at Winter Garden Theater in New York. For every celebrity with VAPE at hand, journalists absorbed the crowd George ClooneyAn invitation to weapons under vibrant fog from scrutiny.

Among those in the room Jake Taber, George Stefanopoulos, Leslie Stall, Chris Wallace, Rachel Madow, Chaiks, CBS head, was sitting alongside Drew Barrymore, Uma Thurman and Lorne Michaels. The red carpet, which was organized by the tall stage pavilion, had its own scene. Thousands of fans on the street lined up while Jennifer Lopez, the star “Out of Sight”, turned her heads in a black dress associated with a white head mounting.

“Night Night, and Good Luck” is a semi -malicious adaptation of the 2005 movie of the same name, which recounts Edward R. Moro accumulated from Senator Joseph McCarthy at the height of Red Store. However, a handful of pointed additions draws a clear line of problems facing the modern press.

“The play is more emotional than the movie,” said Grant Hyslov, Clooney’s partner who has been producing a long time and co -author, said. diverse. “And the end takes a completely different direction.”

In a major exchange, the CBS president William Billy delivers the familiar line: “We do not make the news, reach the news.” But Paul Gross Bali exceeds a step beyond his cinematic counterpart (which Frank Landga played), questioning the previous actions of Moro to journalists who will one day sit on his chair.

This tension predicts the final “Babylon” of the show: a quick montage of “specific” broadcasting news that is flashing on the box TVs that connect the two sides of the theater. It started with stones touched like The Moon Landing and “demolishing this wall” by Rigan, but as they approached the present, the shots grew in a louder, more chaotic and more exciting voice.

“It is not just a press. It is a problem we face in a capitalist society, and I believe in it, but at some point you have to know the general goal,” said Clark Greg, who plays the role of a journalist who carries the Penco without Holinbeck. “Is it always a profit? Is the truth always profitable? Is the truth should be the number one?”

The Clooney play reaches a critical turn for the traditional press. While the Trump administration returns to reduce the Federal Federal Federation for PBS and NPR, old programs like “CBS EVENING News” Battle for watching In the broken media environmental system.

“We forget that when Moro was broadcasting, there were 40 million people watching,” his colleague Andrew Polk pointed out. “There were only a few channels, and the man was. This was not heard by anyone. So this maybe this is part of the answer. Everything is very dispersed, people really don’t know where to get the truth.”

According to Gallup68 % of Americans said they had a “lot” or “fair amount” of confidence in the media in 1972. In 2024, this number recorded the lowest level in 31 %. One can refer to the regular issue faced by Murrow in the play: the erosion of the wall of protection between companies and liberation.

Taber said: “I am lucky because CNN is owned by David Zasslav and Warner Bruce Discovery, and they were very cool regarding supporting our ability to report facts and truth, even if it is bothering.” “But there are other places at the moment they seem to be stable and spicy. It is very concerned.”

One of the most echoed moments at night was like Kaluni, in one of the long monologues of the actor, which revealed accusations of communist sympathy associated with the dedication of a book from British Socialism Harold Laski. He says in the character: “He did not insist on agreeing with his political principles as a prior condition for conversation or friendship.” The crowd responded with a decrease, approval of a blow. The line is clearly hit the nerve.

“The best thing you can do is read both sides,” said Guest Richard Kane. “I Hate Fox News, but I am constantly listening to it. Get out and search for the truth. “

After the curtain falls in his first appearance in Broadway, Clooney made a short pass on the carpet, and his black hair is still pepper in place. When asked about the absence of his wife, Amal Clooney, a twisted smile was filled and said: “It is with the children.”

Inside the after -elegant post -York Public Library, Clooney Billat celebrated the well -wishers and friends, including Juliana Margolis, Anthony Edwards, Noah Wey.