THE AUDIENCE's Helen Mirren Visits CBS's DAVID LETTERMAN Tonight

By: Feb. 23, 2015
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CBS has announced that actress Helen Mirren, who will begin performances of Peter Morgan's The Audience tonight, February 14th, will be a guest on LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN on Monday, Feb. 23rd. The 2015 Daytona 500 winner and musical guest Steve Earle will also appear.

Actor Sean Hayes will visit the show on Friday, February 20th, along with Kid Scientists and musical guests Judah & The Lion.

About THE AUDIENCE:

Peter Morgan's Broadway-bound The Audience, starring Academy Award winner Helen Mirren and directed by Stephen Daldry, will begin performances at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (236 West 45th Street) on February 14, with an official opening night set for March 8. BroadwayWorld brings you photos of the marquee below!

The Audience cast is Helen Mirren (Queen Elizabeth II), Dylan Baker (John Major),Geoffrey Beevers(The Queen's Equerry),Michael Elwyn (Sir Anthony Eden), Judith Ivey(Margaret Thatcher), Dakin Matthews(Winston Churchill), Richard McCabe (Harold Wilson), Rod McLachlan (Gordon Brown),Rufus Wright (David Cameron), Anthony Cochrane (Cecil Beaton / Detective / Bishop),Graydon Long(Footman / Beefeater), Jason Loughlin (Footman / Beefeater), Michael Rudko(Ensemble), Henny Russell (Queen's Secretary), Tracy Sallows (Bobo McDonald), Sadie Sink (Young Elizabeth), Elizabeth Teeter (Young Elizabeth) and Tony Ward (Ensemble).

For sixty years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace. Both parties have an unspoken agreement never to repeat what is said, not even to their spouses.

The Audience imagines a series of pivotal meetings between the Downing Street incumbents and their Queen. From Churchill to Cameron, each Prime Minister uses these private conversations as a sounding board and a confessional - sometimes intimate, sometimes explosive. In turn, the Queen can't help but reveal her own self as she advises, consoles and, on occasion, teases. These private audiences chart the arc of the second Elizabethan Age, from the beginning of Elizabeth II's reign to today. Politicians come and go through the revolving door of electoral politics, while she remains constant, waiting to welcome her next Prime Minister.

Photo Credit: Johan Persson



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