Video: On the Opening Night Red Carpet for DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES

Hello, I'm Richard Ridge for Broadway World

Kelly O'Hara and Brian Darcy James are back on Broadway in the new musical Days of Wine and Roses

and we're here on opening night to celebrate with the first-nighters. How excited are you to be here for this opening, but you've also played this house

I played it 2010, Sondheim and Sondheim. I'm also a board member at Roundabout for the past 10 years plus

So it's kind of lovely. And also Kelly and Bronner, amazing. I've heard such great things about the show, so I'm really excited

Well, I heard it's going to be upsetting, so I'm ready to cry

But that's what art is about. It's about making you feel and being surprised by things that are unexpected that will grab you

And that's the wonderful thing about art, making art, and it's always moving and always changing

And that's why doing things eight shows a week, people are like, oh, my God, the audience informed

you, the ensemble informs you, how you're feeling that day. You deliver a different show

every time, and that's what I love about theater. I'm thrilled. I saw the show down at the

Atlantic, but I'm hungry to see it again, and to see my beloved Kelly and brilliant Brian

and celebrate a new American musical, and the great Adam Gettle, and Michael. And Michael

I mean, it's just like the A team on every level. The designers are not coming to mine, but I remember when I saw it downtown

It just, it's the best of the best. And I love Sharon Brown it just goes on and on I had tickets at the Atlantic and I got sick There was only one show I could see at the Atlantic and I had my tickets and I got sick

so I couldn't go. So I'm seeing it for the first time. I'm thrilled. I've been looking forward to it for so long

I love this team, as you do, too, lighten the piazza. You have quite a history with this team, right

Yeah, Craig and Adam. They're like my brothers. I love them. What is it like working with them and creating and being in the room

with that? It's unbelievable. It's a once in a lifetime gift. They are both so brilliant and

incredible collaborators. You know, there's so many revivals now, and this is not a revival

and we all, as artists, crave those kind of original stories and original musicals. So, you know

to have Kelly and Brian originating these roles and to be able to see it, I'm just thrilled to be here

Being here tonight for the opening, Kelly O'Harrard, Brian Darcy James. Isn't that great

I'm so excited to see these two amazing actors and singers just perform these incredible roles

Yeah. What I love about this creative team is they continue to push the musical theater forward, as Stephen Sondheim did, as some of the shows you did

That must mean a lot to you as an artist, right? How it moves it forward? Yes, in fact, I just saw Here We Are, which is, I think Steve would have loved it because that show also moved Broadway musicals forward

So I think that he'd be very pleased with that one. Isn it great that he lives on through his creativity that he had a brand new musical in New York Steve with Here We Are I know It really great Really great You know what great about this creative team is they continue to push the musical theater genre forward

What that means to you as an artist? Well, what that means to me is that we get to see something new every single time a team like this comes along

I'm constantly looking for things to connect to in different ways. And this particular piece, yes, it's serious

There's a lot of brilliant subject matter to tackle. and they do it very wisely, respectfully

It's a really beautiful thing. I don't drink. So watching this show was something for me

that was like, ah, this brought back so many memories. It brings back so many different things

which I think is an incredible thing for a new piece of work. How excited are you to be here tonight for this opening

Extremely. I think the fact that this show is on Broadway that we're going to see two of the great performers

of our time in this musical is very, very special. I mean, I think it's exciting to see people

at the top of their game do what they do best. And they couldn't have assembled a better cast

and creative team of the writers, Michael Gryph, of course. I'm just so excited to be here and see what they've done

How excited are you to be here tonight for this opening? Happy, I love both of these actors

They're so fabulous and beautiful and lovely. And back in this beautiful theater, so many friends are here

and it's a wonderful piece, so it's very exciting. Did you just finish a matinee

Just finished a matinee. Just finished a matinee. So excited to be lifted by this

Tell me how excited you are to be here. How excited you are to be here tonight, to be here at the opening night

Oh my God, Brian's voice and Kelly's voice together, like there is truly nothing better

And Adam's score, I'm so excited. I feel like when I saw Lightning the Piazza years ago I never heard music like that in a theater before And he hasn done many since So this is really special My first trip to New York I saw that show and it stayed with me and it killed me from like the nosebleeds

So I can't wait to hear this music tonight. It's a big part of why I'm here. I mean, I think this is a great romantic musical

to see together on a date. No, I'm kidding. I mean, both of us are fans of, I would say

this kind of theater and of Adam Gettel's work, and so and Kelly and Brian

So it really is, it's going to be a treat tonight. I'm excited. Adam is a hero to me and so many people

I directed one of his shows way back in the early 2000s, and Mithson Hymns

and we've been friendly ever since. Weirdly, his brother was my fraternity brother

Top that. So it's a really exciting night to be here with this family. I love this

You all travel in this pack. I love this, the notebook pack. How excited are you to be here today

I'm so beyond excited. Best voices on Broadway, best design, best direction

I'm so excited. Agreed. Oh my gosh, I can't wait. I've heard nothing but good things

So excited. I'm extremely excited about it because of these folks, but also because it's a musical version of the film that Jack Lemon did

I did 12 Angry Men with Jack Lemon and George C. Scott

And so this is kind of connected to that. This is the third time I'm seeing this musical

Did you start downtown at the Atlantic? We saw you. Remember we saw, we sat. We had the same night

I think I cried that night. We did. It was a nice bonding moment. Bobby had flown in from Chicago

I had two days off from Tommy and came. We saw this show

You know, Adam Gettle being back on Broadway is reason to celebrate and to see Kelly and

Brian feels like a moment and events and we're so thrilled to be here