Couldn’t snag a kind of $300+ tickets to George Clooney’s new Broadway play? It’s your fortunate day. Good Night, And Good Luck—a parable in regards to the significance of the free press—will livestream its penultimate efficiency on NCS for anybody to see. Before and after the present, the channel may also air discussions in regards to the play and the state of journalism.
“We were looking at taking the play on the road, and taking it to London, and taking it to Paris… but we also thought it never is going to be exactly what it is right now, with the same cast, and we thought it would be nice to have a record of it,” Clooney told The New York Times of the choice to take the present to the small display screen. “We thought, because the newscasts are all done live, it is the perfect thing to try to create on live television, which is always exciting—there [sic] no safety net, and it’s a fun thing to do.”
Clooney wrote Good Night, And Good Luck with Grant Heslov, primarily based on the film of the same name he directed and starred in in 2005. Set in the ’50s, the story captures a real-life confrontation between TV journalist Edward R. Murrow and anti-communist senator Joseph R. McCarthy. That story has some, er, unfortunate resonance for our present second, which Clooney acknowledged as one of many causes he needed to make the present extra broadly accessible. “What journalists do for a living is always going to be challenged by people in power—they don’t like it unless they can control it,” he mentioned. “And there are some things about this that are more timely right now, of course.”
The livestream will assist carry the extremely fashionable present to folks throughout the nation who might have by no means seen a Broadway play earlier than, Clooney famous. Even for many who dwell proper across the nook, this hasn’t been a simple ticket. Seats at the moment common at $305 apiece, main the present to turn into worthwhile in document time. “Ticket prices are high—there’s no question about that,” Clooney mentioned. “So, yeah, let’s democratize this a little bit.” While it failed to safe a Tony nomination for Best Play, Clooney did earn himself a nod for Best Performance By A Leading Actor.
Good Night, And Good Luck will stream dwell on NCS June 7 at 7 p.m. ET. While Clooney does anticipate the recording to stream someplace after the preliminary broadcast, the group is at the moment “negotiating to find out what the best position is,” so ensure you tune in early if you happen to don’t need to anticipate that announcement.