Photo Coverage: Inside THE AUDIENCE's Opening Night Afterparty!
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'sGerald Schoenfeld Theatre. BroadwayWorld there for the opening night after party - 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
Dylan Baker, Rufus Wright, Elizabeth Teeter, Helen Mirren, Sadie Sink, Michael Elwyn, Richard McCabe and Judith Ivey
Dylan Baker, Rufus Wright, Elizabeth Teeter, Helen Mirren, Sadie Sink and Michael Elwyn
Dylan Baker, Rufus Wright, Elizabeth Teeter, Helen Mirren, Sadie Sink, Michael Elwyn, Richard McCabe and Judith Ivey
Elizabeth Teeter, Helen Mirren and Sadie Sink
Elizabeth Teeter, Helen Mirren and Sadie Sink
Dylan Baker, Elizabeth Teeter, Helen Mirren
Elizabeth Teeter, Helen Mirren and Sadie Sink
Rod McLachlan, Peter Morgan, Dakin Matthews
Geoffrey Beevers and Judith Ivey
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