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Robert Downey Jr. to make Broadway debut in new play McNeal... 41 years after starring in a musical that opened and closed the same night

The 59-year-old Oscar winner said in a statement: 'Hopefully I'll knock the dust off quick. McNeal is a timely and important story about the future of creatives, and I intend to do it justice'

Here's hoping it goes better than the former Brat Packer's prior play, Patricia Birch's off-Broadway musical American Passion, which opened and closed on the same night- July 10, 1983 - (after 42 previews) at the Joyce Theater in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. Cowboy Bebop star Hoa Xuande plays the main character - a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist spy during the final days of the Vietnam War and his resulting exile in the United States. Downey Jr. takes on the titular role of fictional writer and 'perpetual candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature' Jacob McNeal who struggles with 'an estranged son, a new novel, old axes to grind, and an unhealthy fascination with AI'

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