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Bill Nighy and Andrew Scott to Join Moore for Vertical Hour

By: Sep. 01, 2006
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Two acclaimed actors will join Oscar-nominee Julianne Moore for the upcoming Broadway production of David Hare's The Vertical Hour, according to the New York Times.

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Pirates of the Caribbean 2 star Bill Nighy has been cast as the father of Moore's (Far from Heaven, The Hours) character as Nadia, while Olivier Award-winner AnDrew Scott will play her lover.

The first play by David Hare (Stuff Happens, Plenty) to premiere on Broadway, The Vertical Hour will be directed by Oscar-winner Sam Mendes (Gypsy, Cabaret, the film American Beauty), it will begin previews at the Music Box Theatre on November 9th for a November 30th opening.

Nighy was most recently seen as the spectral Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.  His other screen credits include The Constant Gardener, Shaun of the Dead, the Underworld films, Love Actually, Blow Dry and Indian Summer.  At The National Theatre in London, he was seen in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and Hare's Skylight and Blue Orange.

Scott won a 2005 Olivier Award for his work in A Girl in a Car with a Man, while other London stage credits include Brian Friel's Aristocrats.  His film and TV credits include "Band of Brothers," Nora, Longitude, Saving Private Ryan and The Tale of Sweety Barrett.

"Nadia Blye (Moore) is a young American war correspondent turned academic who now teaches Political Studies at Yale. A brief holiday with her boyfriend in the Welsh borders brings her into contact with a kind of Englishman whose culture and beliefs are a surprise and a challenge, both to her and to her relationship.  David Hare's new play, about the interconnection between our secret motives and our public politics, seeks to illustrate how life has subtly changed for so many people in the West in the new century," state press notes.

The design team for The Vertical Hour will include Scott Pask (scenery), Ann Roth (costumes) and Brian MacDevitt (lighting).  The Vertical Hour will be produced by Robert Fox, Neal Street Productions and Scott Rudin.




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