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Meloni May Bridge from TV to Broadway in Miller Play

By: Aug. 24, 2005
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Christopher Meloni, the popular star of "Law and Order: SVU" may soon make his Broadway debut.

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According to The New York Post's Liz Smith, Meloni may reprise his performance as Eddie in Arthur Miller's gritty A View From the Bridge in a commerical New York production; he played the role at the Gate Theatre in Ireland, and producers were impressed by his stage chops. As were critics--The Irish Times raved that he displayed "a tremendously forceful presence with all the confidence fame brings and none of the self-indulgence."

Meloni played Eddie Carbone, the Brooklyn longshoreman who is consumed and eventually destroyed by the secret lust he harbors for his niece Catherine. Originally produced as part of a Miller double bill in 1955 at the Coronet Theatre, the show, which starred Van Heflin and Eileen Heckart, was something of a critical failure at the time. Of course, it's much grown in esteem (partially thanks to Miller's '56 revision) and a 1997 revival directed by Michael Mayer starred Anthony LaPaglia, Allison Janney, Stephen Spinella and Brittany Murphy.

In addition to "SVU," in which he plays Detective Elliot Stabler, Meloni was a longtime cast member of HBO's prison drama "Oz." His other television credits include "Homicide: Life on the Street," "Brooklyn South" and "NYPD Blue." As a screen actor, he has appeared in Harold and Kumar Go to Whitecastle, Wet Hot American Summer, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Bound, Twelve Monkeys and Junior.






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