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Moon Struck

Matt Dillon, Aaron Eckhart, Melissa Gilbert, Haley Joel Osment, and Patrick Swayze join Kevin Spacey and company for the opening of A Moon for the Misbegotten. Plus: Grease contestants make an appearance at Birdland!


(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)









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.








(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)











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.











(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)








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.






(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)












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











(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)












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










(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)










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











(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)











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











(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)











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











(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)









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










(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)










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












(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)









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












(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)











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











(© Michael Portantiere)
(© Michael Portantiere)









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.










(© Michael Portantiere)
(© Michael Portantiere)










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...











(© Michael Portantiere)
(© Michael Portantiere)










...and Matt Nolan (right), pictured here with Broadway at Birdland's always affable host and creator, Jim Caruso.


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