George Clooney’s ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ shatters Broadway box office record

Is this a musical?

The Tonys will definitely snub this production and everyone associated with it.

You can see the same actor in the same role for $896 less on Amazon Prime, in the comfort of your home.

Why is that, R2?

R3 Clooney didn’t play Murrow in the movie but otherwise I agree with you; Broadway is way too overpriced, especially when well-known actors star in them.

Correction: you can see a BETTER actor in the role for $896 less on Amazon Prime (in all fairness, Clooney's direction is excellent).

Clooney is wearing his stage makeup in that photo. Sheesh some of you cannot read an image.

He looks like Dick Van Dyke. Dead.

I wonder if he is as boring on stage as he is on screen.

Does he sing?

I’ll pass.

R2 = Jill Biden

His COCK SUCKING and BOTTOMING marathons have also set records.

Surpassing yours, R13? I find that difficult to believe.

You"re the #1 cock sucker and sloppy pig bottom boy.

Always have, always will.

Clooney was devastated when he found out he wasn’t young anymore so this will fun to watch going forward.

He does look creepy.

Clooney originally planned to play Murrow in the film but decided not to since he was directing as well. Which was just as well as Strathairn was stellar. D

Team Strathairn! Better actor and sexier. Clooney is like a mannequin.

I considered seeing this until I saw the ticket prices. Even the shittiest seat in the theater are at $500. The good seats are just under $1,000. No way in hell I'm paying that kind of money. I had good seat for the incredible Angels In America for two nights and it was under $400 for the two nights.

Seriously?

You shouldn't havew to pay 300 dollars to see a play.

A similar hot ticket in London would likely be filmed, for screening sometime after the rich had experienced their live fun. Thus we the groundlings could see how much the fuss was merited. And Mr Clooney's stagecraft would be captured forever. Maybe he'll bring GNAGL to the West End!

Why is George Clooney so successful on Broadway, but not nearly as successful in movies?

He is stage dooring, which is cool.

I went to a Broadway play in 1975, on a visit to NYC. Not a musical. The balcony seat cost $7.00. Adjusted for inflation, that would be about $41.50 today. So why does it cost over $300 to see a play in 2024? It's not just the inflation of the dollar.

And honestly, back then, spending seven bucks did not even seem to be even the equivalent of spending 42 bucks today. More like spending 20 bucks.

I think if I had to to sit through that I'd faint

R25 Back then the actors and stage hands were not making living wages. Today they are. But also they are making sizeable profits that go back to those who invested in the play.

A friend just saw it and described the play as “George Clooney talking.”

Does Pamela Churchill make an appearance?

Claims he's never had an argument with his wife!!!!!

If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you!

I hope it's the one going to Brooklyn. It's kinda nice.

How much?

R27 It's not good for the culture when only well off people can afford to go to plays, concerts, etc.

R27 According to what I just looked up, stagehands in 1975 made between $8.50 and 14.50 an hour. The equivalent of $50.00 to $86.00 today. That seems like a living wage to me.

So - shatters box office record or shatters box office pricing? There is a difference.

I think it's the latter. Insane prices.

I saw a clip of him on some talk show and honey,he hit the wall going 150 ! I was shocked at how awful he looked .

R35 - don't have kids at 56! Particularly twins! I don't care how much help they have.

And too much tanning.

No interested in seeing the play at all the. The film is respectable, but it's cut and dry and it's not something I would watch again.

His hair has been dyed black and he shaved his beard off.

There's something a bit exploitative and list-checking when big film and TV stars decide to do Broadway. They feel like they need to do it to show their acting chops or something.

So many of these actors (Denzel, Jake, George) in plays right now never did any (or hardly any) theater work before and cast their sights on Hollywood instead.

You dismissed theater work for DECADES and now with a career lull you want to GET THAT TONY AWARD. And they're probably contractually agreed to the role for only 2-3 months before they 'get bored'.

It feels like they're using Broadway for their own ego somehow. Obviously actors can do what they want, but you spent your WHOLE career side-stepping and slighting Broadway, and now you want your turn. There are a lot of real actors who have gone back and forth for decades that seem to have always had respect for it.

Clooney work is kind of like Chinese food. You love it while you're watching it but a half hour later you hate it.

[quote]You dismissed theater work for DECADES and now with a career lull you want to GET THAT TONY AWARD. And they're probably contractually agreed to the role for only 2-3 months before they 'get bored

Shadddup.

Wicked holds the record for highest grossing week in Broadway history.

R30 The secret is an ironclad marriage contract.

"Mrs Clooney is prohibited from contacting Mr. Clooney by any means, including but not limited to phone, email, social media, or in person unless it´s in service of pre-agreed puplic appearances ore staged walks for paparazzi" .

ILL ep. "Ethel's Birthday": Ricky manages to get tickets to sold-out play "Over the Teacups". Ethel refuses to go when Lucy says she has a "biggest potomus I've ever seen". Fred says "Are you kidding. These tickets are $6.60 apiece!" Adjusted to 2025 prices, they would be $79.35. $303 (average) would probably send Fred into a stroke. Even if Ethel went to the play, she wouldn't wear "those checkerboard britches."

Oh, thus the hair. I saw the film, it was great

The movie was boring.

[quote] So many of these actors (Denzel, Jake, George) in plays right now never did any (or hardly any) theater work before and cast their sights on Hollywood instead.

Denzel Washington is a classically trained actor but go off.

Jaske Gyllenhaal has been in 4 other plays, acc to IBDB. Including Sunday in the Park With George.

I saw Jake in 2019 in Sea Wall/A Life with Tom Sturridge, which were two one-act monologue plays. Both gave excellent performances.

Denzel is BORING R47 . Who cares if he studied drama at Yale or wherever . To me every character he does seems to have a barely controlled anger simmering under the surface . After seeing him in interviews I do believe thats who he is . So humorless.

[quote] Denzel is BORING [R47] . Who cares if he studied drama at Yale or wherever .

Didn't you understand why R47 made that point?

You are profoundly stupid r50. Try following a conversation some time.