Photo Coverage: 'IMPRESSIONISM' Opening Night Curtain Call

Tony Award winners Joan Allen and Jeremy Irons have returned to Broadway to star together in the world premiere of Impressionism, a new American play by Michael Jacobs opening at the Gerald SchoenfeldTheatre on Tuesday March 24, 2009. The production, directed by Tony Award-winner Jack O'Brien, began preview performances on February 28. BroadwayWorld.com's cameras were there for the exciting opening night!

IMPRESSIONISM stars Tony Award winners Jeremy Ironsand Joan Allen and is directed by Tony Award-winner Jack O'Brien. The cast features Marsha Mason, André De Shields, Michael T. Weiss, Aaron Lazar, Margarita Levieva and Hadley Delany.

IMPRESSIONISM's creative team is Scott Pask (scenic design),Catherine Zuber (costume design), Natasha Katz (lighting design), Elaine McCarthy (projection design) and Leon Rothenberg (sound design). Original music is by Bob James.

The production will mark Ms. Allen's first return to Broadway since The Heidi Chronicles in 1989, and Mr. Irons' first time on Broadway since The Real Thing in 1984.

IMPRESSIONISM is produced by Ostar Productions, Roy Furman, Stephanie P. McClelland, Chase Mishkin, Jamie DeRoy, Thomas Murphy, Broadway Across America, Michael Filerman,Eric Falkenstein, Morris Berchard, Matt Murphy/Suisman-Gasparian Philip Geier/Donald R. Keough, Jennifer Manocherian/Wendy Federman, Randall L. Wreghitt, Barbara Freitag/Ergo Entertainment, Max OnStage/Hugh Hysell/Richard Jordan.

IMPRESSIONISM is the story of a world traveling photojournalist and a New York gallery owner who discover each other and also that there might be an art to repairing broken lives.

For more information, visit www.impressionismtheplay.com

Photos by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.

Impressionism opens at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre

The Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre

Impressionism opens on Broadway

Impressionism cast listing

Hadley Delany and Margarita Levieva

Andre De Shields

Michael T. Weiss

Marsha Mason

Joan Allen and Jeremy Irons

Joan Allen

Jeremy Irons

Joan Allen and Jeremy Irons

Joan Allen

Andre De Shields, Joan Allen, Jeremy Irons, Marsha Mason and Michael T. Weiss

Michael T. Weiss

Joan Allen and Jeremy Irons

Jeremy Irons

Joan Allen

Jeremy Irons, Marsha Mason and Michael T. Weiss

Andre De Shields, Joan Allen, Jeremy Irons, Marsha Mason and Michael T. Weiss

Impressionism opens at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre

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After his life as an ingenue in Brooklyn & Queens, Walter spent the next 25 Years in a leading role as a Photographer / Photo Researcher in Manhattan. He is currently headlining in New Jersey with his partner Richard and children Dali & Gala. As a 14 year old youth, Walter was transfixed by his first Broadway Show, the original production of "GREASE". His journey on the path to celebrity photojournalism began that fateful night. Meeting, photographing and getting to know the cast inspired him to spend his professional life doing what he loved. His photography is syndicated worldwide through Retna Ltd. and Corbis.

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