A tumult of Tony winners showed up to a New York screening of the Clint Eastwood-directed film “Jersey Boys.”
The Warner Bros. movie version of the hit Broadway musical attracted stars including Cady Huffman, Lena Hall, Alan Cumming, Bebe Neuwirth, Jefferson Mays, Billy Porter, Roger Rees and Jordan Roth mingling with Eastwood and Christopher Walken, who stars as a member of a local crime family.
Commenting on the gathering of talent Monday, co-screenwriter Rick Elice, who wrote the movie with Marshall Brickman after they penned the book for Broadway, said, “It was impressive, considering everybody who was there was probably hung over from the Tonys the night before.”
He said Brickman “proved F. Scott Fitzgerald [who famously said, ‘There are no second acts in American lives’] wrong. Marshall has not only had a second act, he’s had a third act, turning the stage musical into a film.”
Others attending the event, which started at Angelo Galasso’s Plaza Hotel store, included Laurie Anderson, Candice Bergen, Richard Belzer, Paul Shaffer, Reeve Carney, David Chase, Tom Wolfe, Regis and Joy Philbin, Soon-Yi Previn, ICM’s John Burnham and Nancy Shevell, who arrived with Barbara Walters.