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‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ Review: George Clooney Makes an Impressive Broadway Bow in Taut Film-to-Stage Transfer
Clooney makes an impressive Broadway bow in this taut film-to-stage transfer, co-written by Grant Heslov and directed by David Cromer.
In streamlining the script, some theatrical moments may have been lost, especially a pivotal one when Murrow makes his career-defining decision culminating in the 1954 broadcasts exposing the nefarious methods of McCarthy — with Roy Cohn at his elbow and ear. The urgent dynamics of the newsroom have been a magnet for writers in works from “The Front Page” to, more recently, “Network,” “Ink,” “The Connector” and “Corruption.” With a kind of theater vérité, Cromer fills the monochromatic bunker of a set with a large — the cast numbers 21 — and mostly male ensemble, all bustling about with myriad tasks amid overlapping dialogue and banter. Several emerge as more significant players, including strong performances from Glenn Fleshler as Friendly, Clark Gregg as newscaster Don Hollenbeck and Paul Gross as CBS network head William F. Paley.
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