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The latest Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neiil's A Moon for the Misbegotten bowed last night at the Brooks Atkinson Theater. Here's the show's star, Oscar and Tony winner Kevin Spacey, who previously played the same role -- James Tyrone, Jr. -- in the 1986 revival of Long Day's Journey Into Night.
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Olivier Award winner Eve Best, who is making her Broadway debut in Moon, lives up to her name with her astounding portrayal of Josie Hogan.
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Rounding out the cast are Billy Carter, who plays wealthy landowner T. Steadman Harder; Colm Meaney, who plays Josie's dad, Phil; and Eugene O'Hare, who plays Mike Hogan.
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The star-studded opening night crowd included Matt Dillon, who received an Academy Award nomination for his performance in Crash...
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...Aaron Eckhart, who will soon be seen on the big screen opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones, Patricia Clarkson, and Lily Rabe in No Reservations...
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...former Chicago star Patrick Swayze, who will play the male lead in an upcoming workshop presentation of the Broadway-bound musical Prairie...
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...and his co-star for that presentation, longtime TV favorite Melissa Gilbert.
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Other notables at the opening included Haley Joel Osment, who starred with Spacey in the film Pay It Forward...
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...actress Elaine Joyce with husband Neil Simon, who wrote Lost in Yonkers, for which Spacey won a Tony Award...
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...Simon's ex-wife, the wonderful actress Marsha Mason, last seen on Broadway in Steel Magnolias...
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...veteran actress Patricia Barry, a favorite of soap opera fans for her roles on Days of Our Lives, All My Children, and Guiding Light...
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...and the popular cabaret and jazz singer Peter Cincotti, who appeared with Spacey in the Bobby Darin biopic Beyond the Sea.
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Also last night, the Broadway at Birdland series hosted singer-songwriter Georgia Stitt, whose new CD, This Ordinary Thursday, has just been released. Here's Stitt with her husband, Tony-winning composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown.
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Stitt's special guests included several contestants from the NBC-TV talent competition series Grease: You're The One That I Want, including Allie Schulz and Chad Doreck...
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...and Matt Nolan (right), pictured here with Broadway at Birdland's always affable host and creator, Jim Caruso.
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