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Tickets to the upcoming Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge - starring Tony Award winner Liev Schreiber and film star Scarlett Johansson - will go on sale to the public Nov. 21. American Express card holders get a first shot in a pre-sale that begins Nov. 11.
Gregory Mosher will direct the new production to play at the Cort Theatre. Previews begin Dec. 28 with an official opening slated for Jan. 24, 2010. The limited engagement will run for 14 weeks only.
Schreiber will play Eddie Carbone, the role which earned Anthony LaPaglia a Tony for his turn in the play's most recent revival in 1997. Johannsson will play Carbone's niece, Catherine, with whom Carbone becomes obsessed. Additional casting will be announced shortly.
The play will be produced by Stuart Thompson and The Araca Group. Additional producers include Jeffrey Finn, Sonia Friedman, The Weinstein Company and Olympus Theatricals.
The play, according to press notes, centers on "a Brooklyn longshoreman obsessed with his 17-year-old niece Catherine. When Catherine falls in love with a newly arrived immigrant, Eddie's jealousy erupts in a rage that consumes him, his family, and his world."
The design team will include John Lee Beatty (scenic), Jane Greenwood (costume), Peter Kaczorowski (lighting) and Scott Lehrer (sound).
Schreiber earned a 2005 Tony Award for Glengarry Glenn Ross. He has appeared on Broadway in Talk Radio (Tony nomination), Betrayal and In the Summer House. He has also appeared in the Public Theater presentations of Macbeth, Henry V, Othello, Hamlet, Cymbeline and The Tempest. His screen roles include "Defiance," "Lackawanna Blues," "The Manchurian Candidate," "Hamlet," "Big Night" and the "Scream" films. He will be seen in the forthcoming Ang Lee film "Taking Woodstock" as well as "X-Men Origins: Wolverine."
Johansson, who will be making her Broadway debut, has starred in such films as "Lost in Translation," "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" and "Ghost World."
For more information, visit AViewFromTheBridgeOnBroadway.com.
