Photo Coverage: Helen Mirren & The Cast of Broadway's THE AUDIENCE Take Opening Night Bows!
By: Walter McBride Mar. 09, 2015
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Academy Award winner Helen Mirren will return to Broadway this spring as Elizabeth II in Peter Morgan's The Audience, directed by two-time Tony Award winner Stephen Daldry. The production opened last night, March 8, 2015; the limited engagement runs through June 28, 2015 at Broadway's Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the cast's opening night bows - check out photos below!
In addition to Helen Mirren (Queen Elizabeth II), the cast for The Audience includes Dylan Baker (John Major), Geoffrey Beevers (The Queen's Equerry), Michael Elwyn (Sir Anthony Eden), Judith Ivey(Margaret Thatcher), Dakin Matthews (Winston Churchill), Richard McCabe (Harold Wilson), Rod McLachlan (Gordon Brown), Rufus Wright (David Cameron), Anthony Cochrane (Cecil Beaton / Detective / Bishop), Graydon Long (Footman / Beefeater), Jason Loughlin (Footman / Beefeater),Michael Rudko (Ensemble), Henny Russell (Queen's Secretary), Tracy Sallows (Bobo McDonald),Sadie Sink (Young Elizabeth), Elizabeth Teeter (Young Elizabeth), and Tony Ward (Ensemble).
For sixty years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace. Both parties have an unspoken agreement never to repeat what is said, not even to their spouses.
The Audience imagines a series of pivotal meetings between the Downing Street incumbents and their Queen. From Churchill to Cameron, each Prime Minister uses these private conversations as a sounding board and a confessional - sometimes intimate, sometimes explosive. In turn, the Queen can't help but reveal her own self as she advises, consoles and, on occasion, teases. These private audiences chart the arc of the second Elizabethan Age, from the beginning of Elizabeth II's reign to today. Politicians come and go through the revolving door of electoral politics, while she remains constant, waiting to welcome her next Prime Minister.
Photos by Walter McBride
Theatre Marquee
Theatre Marquee
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Lobby Cast Board
Helen Mirren with the cast
Helen Mirren with the cast
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Helen Mirren with the cast
Judith Ivey, Helen Mirren and Dakin Matthews
Richard McCabe, Sadie Sink, Helen Mirren and Elizabeth Teeter
Sadie Sink, Helen Mirren and Elizabeth Teeter
Richard McCabe, Sadie Sink, Helen Mirren, Elizabeth Teeter and Dakin Matthews
Judith Ivey, Helen Mirren and Dakin Matthews
Helen Mirren with the cast
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