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Video: Stars Walk the Red Carpet at A DOLL'S HOUSE Opening Night
May 17, 2024
The best of Broadway gathered last week at the Hudson Theatre to celebrate the first opening of Spring- A Doll's House, starring Academy Award winner Jessica Chastain. BroadwayWorld was there for the big night and we are bringing you interviews from the red carpet with Ellen Burstyn, Bradley Whitford, Camryn Manheim and more!
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Hello, I'm Richard Ridge for Broadway World
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Academy Award winner Jessica Chastain has returned to Broadway in director Jamie Lloyd's new production of A Doll's House for the new version by Amy Herzog, and we're here to celebrate on opening night
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How excited are you to be here tonight for a doll's house? Oh, well, I love the play, and I love Jessica Chastain's work, so I'm very, very eager to see it
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I mean, she's a real actress. Absolutely. And also, I'm very interested to see Amy Herzog's new translation, you know
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because she's such a brilliant playwright. So I'm sure we're going to see something, a new version of Doll's House
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How excited are you to be here tonight for Doll's House? So excited
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Jessica Chastain, Jamie Lloyd. This is why we go to the theater
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I got to see this director's production of Serino at Bam. And Arienne Moyette is a team
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dear friend of ours. And the combination with Jessica Chastain, I cannot wait to see this kind of..
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Big Chastain fans. Yeah, big Chastain fans. What I love the most about her, we've already done our interviews with her already. She's not only
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an incredible film star, she is a theater actress at heart. I mean, she works so hard in this
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I mean, it's such a beautiful performance you're going to see. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's a real actor
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I mean, not just an incredible movie star. And that's rare. Well, you know what I love about her is, you know
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bringing a whole new audience to you know have never seen something live we all
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remember we went to see a TV star in like oh my god it's a live show and
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introduce us to this live medium what that means to you you know I think it's
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really important for people where you started yeah yeah this is where I said I but I think it really important for people don normally get a theater experience to get it because it certainly meant a lot in our lives How excited are you to be here tonight for a doll house
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I am, and to see Jessica. I think she's brilliant, brilliant actress
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So I'm thrilled about it. I'm also thrilled to see a classic. Way do you see Jessica Chastain, who's really a theater nerd
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I mean, I talked to her already tonight. She's so amazing, and she's a big movie star, yet she comes back to the theater
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It should always be. Always be that way. Well, you did the same thing
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I never forget the theater because I did 10 years of theater. I'm missing it. I'd love to do it again
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But you always came back. You started in the theater. You went to Hollywood, but you always came back
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What is it about the theater that you love the most, Brenda? I think, I'll tell you what it is
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You know what Hemingway said? People are places. And the people are here
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And so is the writing. And so is the sense of the theater. In L.A., there's no theater, really
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You know, they don't give a shit. You know, not really. And here there's a love of theater that's phenomenal
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You know, the people come out for it. They applaud, they stand up. They go crazy when they see something they love like Michael Jackson
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You know, you've been there. You've seen that audience stand up and go, man. That's just, I mean, I missed it so much
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and I'm so happy to be back amongst the people. Because that's where we're going to see the plays
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I love being here. for the opening night of Adults House to see my friend Jessica Chastain
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and Ariane both actors that I have worked with in the past
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to see them tackling this piece of work is thrilling. Okay, both of them are so brilliant in this show
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I hear that they're magnificent. But I mean, Jessica Chastain to watch her on stage what was it like directing her It was brilliant She a brilliant actor who has incredible talent He that mixture of she understands the text
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She knows how to read a text, and she has the chops to inhabit it
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So it's great. It's really wonderful. You know, a friend of mine flew out today
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She was coming at 9 o'clock, and I'm like, you get another flight. I don't care if you have to cancel it
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You get your ass out here in time to see this incredible show. Yeah. So I'm so excited
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I love her. She is so stellar. And I think she's going to, you know, make it very magical and change our feelings about this, you know, old play from which one is a century
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Amy Herzog's new version of this is going to blow your mind, and she's making her Broadway debut, and Jamie Lloyd has put together the most amazing company of actors
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That's awesome. Girl Power, Amy, Jessica, I can't wait to see it. First of all, how excited are you to be here tonight
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I'm pretty excited. I'm here to support my friend Amy Herzog, who did the translation, who I know her husband. who I know her husband, Sam Gold, because of production
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Well, we first, we did a production of Doll's House of Williamstown
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about 14 years ago, and so that's why I'm here. She's making her Broadway debut tonight
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You know that, yes? Is that true? Amy, I thought, wasn't Bellevue on Broadway
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Was it not? Oh, that's even more reason to celebrate. About time
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How excited are you to be here tonight for Donald's House? I'm thrilled, and I just learned that this is the first
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female playwright who have ever adapted this play. And I'm so excited. I'm so thrilled that it's Amy Herzog
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I can't wait to see what her brilliant mind has done. Okay, when you see her inside, Amy
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is making her Broadway debut tonight. I know, and she's written so many great plays
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tonight's her Broadway debut. That really is, I had no idea. That's well, then, so it's long overdue
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Yeah. My gosh, I'm over the moon. I've known Arya more yet since we were babies
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Literally like we were the non interns at Utah Shakespeare Festival a couple of decades ago and just to see how he charted his career is so amazing
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So I'm here to celebrate him, and of course, Amy and Oak and all the other wonderful creators
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So I'm just over the moment. First of all, I'm so excited to be in the audience instead of on the stage
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You know, I love being on stage, of course, but I'm just so grateful that I get to watch
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the brilliance of these artists tonight. Amy Herzog's making her Broadway debut tonight with this version
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Which, Amy making her debut with this is unbelievable. She has been a writer that I've admired for so many years, and it's long overdue
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and just big congratulations to Amy. I adore Amy, and our whole family, really
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But this is a writer whose time is well overdue. What is it like working with Jamie
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I mean, there's something so singular about his process, that the kind of reduction of all of the distractions within a production
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and the ability to kind of simplify and be focused. focused on the words and be focused on the story
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I cannot wait. I always want more Jamie Lloyd productions because it's
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there are similarities between them, but the beauty is that it's like
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it gets to sit into the story in a very brand new way every single time
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I mean, you know, the theater, we're at a moment where it's really about the evolution
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of theater, right? And so to have a new influx of energy
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is integral to that evolution. So it's really exciting. that Jessica's here and she's bringing a new audience to us, you know
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What you love about being at an opening night on Broadway? I love the reminder that I'm part of a community, you know, that really it always warms my heart just a little bit, you know
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I mean, this city, this pandemic we've been through, it can be isolating, but the reminder that we're part of a community is so important
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