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The Vertical Hour, with Moore, Headed for the Music Box

By: May. 26, 2006
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The New York Times reports that David Hare's latest play The Vertical Hour--featuring Oscar-nominated film star Julianne Moore's Broadway debut--will open at the Music Box Theatre in November.

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The production, as previously announced, will be helmed by Tony Award-winner Sam Mendes, the British director whose films include American Beauty and whose Broadway credits include the revivals of Gypsy and Cabaret.

"The Vertical Hour will mark the first time Moore has been on a New York stage since her sensational 1992 appearance in Andre Gregory's Vanya on 42nd Street and the first time David Hare has premiered a play in America," stated earlier press notes.

"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."

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.

Hare--who is also directing the Broadway-bound stage adaptation of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking--is the author of Amy's View, The Blue Room, Skylight, Racing Demon, Plenty, and this year's Stuff Happens, which played the Public Theater. Moore is an Oscar-nominee for her performances in Far From Heaven, The Hours, The End of the Affair, and Boogie Nights.  Other credits include Freedomland, Laws of Attraction, The Shipping News, World Traveler, Hannibal, Magnolia and The Big Lebowski.




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