In a joint interview with Reuters alongside her "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" film co-star Peter Sarsgaard, Actress Sienna Miller admited that she is "scared obviously, but really excited" to be making her Broadway debut this fall in Patrick Marber's "After Miss Julie."
Miller added that "Patrick Marber is, I think, one of the most fantastic writers." Miller's stars as Miss Julie in Marber's adaptation of August Strindberg's 1888 play about sex and class that sets it in an English country house on the eve of the Labor Party's historic landslide election in 1945.
"If you want to be an actress you think about opening on Broadway," said Miller, who begins rehearsals on August 20 and starts preview performances on September 18. The play open officially on October 22nd, 2009 at the American Airlines Theatre. This is a limited engagement through December 6th, 2009.
Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) in association with Sonia Friedman Productions and Ostar Productions present this American premiere of "After Miss Julie," directed by Mark Brokaw.
27-year-old Miller has already debuted in London's West End, starring in Shakespeare's "As You Like It" in 2005.
Sarsgaard, who last year made his Broadway debut in "The Seagull," offered Miller some advice; get a masseuse to come to her dressing room between the twice weekly matinee and evening performances.
"That's good advice, I will have to take that on board," Miller laughed. Reflexology in London helped Miller cope with performing eight times a week.
Miller and Sarsgaard's "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh," based on Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon's novel of the same name, opens in major U.S. cities on Friday.
For more information on "After Miss Julie" visit www.roundabouttheatre.org.
