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Video: On the Red Carpet for Opening Night of AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
Mar 29, 2024
50th Street was abuzz last week, when Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People celebrated its opening night. In this video, watch what went down on the red carpet before the curtain went up!
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Amy Herzog has done this whole new adaptation
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Don't tell me. Why would you tell me? No, no, you know she's... What the hell? I love Ibsen adaptations starring succession cast members
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with Amy Herzog affiliations. So this falls within the narrow, narrow, narrow
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interest group for me. So, yeah, it's really exciting. It's opening night
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How do you both feel tonight? I feel really excited to celebrate an opening night with my husband
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We've done this before for, you know, when it was one of our plays and one of us was there in a supporting role
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And tonight we're both here in a supporting role and it's both of our plays. Yeah, we've never we've never had an opening like this before
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where it's where we get to sit together, both having worked on it. It's really fun
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It sort of tickles us. It's a lot of young people seeing the show, a lot of young people
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and a lot of people who've never seen a play before. The fact that they're coming to see an obscure Ibsen play
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filled with a lot of complicated ideas and liking it. That's the best feeling
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We're feeling really great. Tell me what's made this so special with you working on this production
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Um, I mean, it's always a joy. Every production is its own special, unique world
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And this one was so exciting. And the team doing this together, of course. And the rest of the team has just been such a delight to work with
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Yeah. Yeah. The collaboration was just phenomenal. I think like all the departments working together
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and of course with the actors, we just had such a great time. Yeah. Yeah
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And also the challenge of the story, like having this very relevant story
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from like a period piece. So we kind of like think about how we adapt that to today's day
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like what is happening currently. So that's very exciting. Did you leave rehearsal to come here tonight
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It worked out that this was on my one day off, so I couldn't imagine being anywhere else
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I'm glad it worked out. Yeah. How excited are you to be here tonight for this
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Oh, I can't wait. I can't wait. The rest of the cast from our show has seen it throughout the week
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and they come in just speechless, basically. Also not trying to give spoilers away because I was seeing it tonight
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So but everyone's just been gobsmacked by it and by the performances
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and by Amy's adaptation, which, you know, I'm obviously a huge fan of her writing
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So to see what she's done with this, I can't wait and and give them
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give her a big squeeze in the morning. Michael Imperioli is a very good friend of mine, and I'm thrilled for him
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This is his first Broadway show. Yeah. Yeah. And he's very excited and I'm excited for him
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Besides, I think Ibsen is an important playwright. How much Ibsen did you do during your career
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Have you done some Ibsen? Do you know? Yeah. I did the master builder once a long time ago and I'd like to do it again
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But you always want to do the great parts again. You know. Yeah. How excited are you to be here tonight
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I am. I'm very excited. I've been I wanted to come to the preview, as Michael said
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No, wait till opening night. So I'm looking forward to him and Jeremy Strong and the rest of the cast
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Michael told me it's going well. He's been working very hard. I'm very proud of him
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We've done a lot of stuff together. And this is a big deal. He's this is his first Broadway show
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So I'm excited for my friend. Tell me what it was like working with him on The Sopranos and actor to actor
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What it was like working with Mike. You know, he's so much more than that mob guy
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And that's the thing. Yeah. You know, people still think he's that Christopher guy
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and he's nothing like that in real life. And he could do so much more. He's a writer and a director and he's just a wonderful guy
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And he was great to work with. Just great. I love Amy Herzog's writing
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I can't wait to see I can't wait to see what she's done with this piece. And yeah, I don't know
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It's been a long time since I've seen the same gold play. Actually, I've managed to somehow like miss a lot of his work
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So I'm excited. I'm absolutely thrilled. I love this play. I have loved this way for many, many, many years
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I saw Ann Dowd do the one woman adaptation of it, but I haven't seen it professionally done otherwise
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Oh, so I can't wait to see what Amy and Sam have done to it. It's like one of those plays that we
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we are. It's not going to be hard to draw the connections right to this moment
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at all, at all, to everything that we're dealing with in the world. And I'm excited
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I'm excited to see it in the round, too. I haven't seen anything in this theater for a really long time
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and just to be kind of immersed in it. So I'm so excited. I'm thrilled
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I haven't seen Jeremy in a while, and I've never seen him in a play, even though I know I've heard so many stories about his wonderful work on stage
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So I'm really excited to see that. And I love this play. And I'm really excited to see Amy's adaptation of it and all of that
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I couldn't be more excited. Coming back to Circle in the Square is like coming back home for me
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So a fun home. And of course, directed by Sam Gold, who is the director of this and his wife
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First time working together, the two of them. Yeah, I mean, did you know this play well or do you know the play well
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I remember reading it in school. I don't know that I've ever seen a production of it
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So part of what I'm excited about is just seeing a production period, but also seeing Sam and Amy's iteration of it is really exciting
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How excited are you to be here tonight? Very, very much. I know the play well. I did it as a radio broadcast one time
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you know, five nights in front of an audience. But we thought it was it's a great play
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Who did you play? The lead. I played the Jeremy Strong part. Yeah
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I thought I knew this play really well until I saw this on Saturday. It's so relevant. Yeah
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Well, that I did know. I knew how relevant it was. Yeah, it's unbelievable
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But the nice thing is, Amy Hirschlaug has done this whole new adaptation. Don't tell me. Why would you tell me
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You know she... What the hell? Oh, my God. You know she made the adaptation, don't you
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Yes, but don't tell me what she did. I knew she wrote the adaptation
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Jesus. But it's brand new. OK, so don't tell me. What are you, an idiot
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You know that. But I mean, she's introducing a whole new... I don't want anybody..
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