Moon Struck

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.

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.

The star-studded opening night crowd included Matt Dillon, who received an Academy Award nomination for his performance in Crash…

…Aaron Eckhart, who will soon be seen on the big screen opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones, Patricia Clarkson, and Lily Rabe in No Reservations…

…former Chicago star Patrick Swayze, who will play the male lead in an upcoming workshop presentation of the Broadway-bound musical Prairie…

…and his co-star for that presentation, longtime TV favorite Melissa Gilbert.

Other notables at the opening included Haley Joel Osment, who starred with Spacey in the film Pay It Forward…

…actress Elaine Joyce with husband Neil Simon, who wrote Lost in Yonkers, for which Spacey won a Tony Award…

…Simon’s ex-wife, the wonderful actress Marsha Mason, last seen on Broadway in Steel Magnolias…

…veteran actress Patricia Barry, a favorite of soap opera fans for her roles on Days of Our Lives, All My Children, and Guiding Light…

…and the popular cabaret and jazz singer Peter Cincotti, who appeared with Spacey in the Bobby Darin biopic Beyond the Sea.

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.

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…