Actor Proposes Marriage at AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY's Curtain-Call in Israel

Tracy Letts' Pulitzer prize winning play "August: Osage County" has been enjoying a successful run in Israel. Director Ilan Ronen's production has been running in front of packed houses since the show's premier in late 2008. But last night's perfromace has had an unexpected surprise ending.
 
As the cast assembled for curtain-call, the show's headliner, Israeli stage and film star, Gila Almagor, inquired if there was anyone in the theatre called Michal Pulitzer. A timid and bewildered young woman answered from the hall. Almagor then gestured at actor Uri Hochman, the play's Bill Fordham. Hochman then stutteringly proposed marriage to his beloved, as he kneels onstage (Actor Arie Moskuna called: "you can still opt-out!"). As soon as the the woman cried her loud "yes!" from the audience, the full house started clapping excitedly. The newly-engaged couple then united and kissed, Hochman still onstage and Pulitzer at the foot of the stage. Almagor emotionally highlighted the moment as the pinnacle of the familial cast's long run.
 
The audience got to expereince an unscripted cathartic revalidation of family values, much needed after the play's depiction of a dysfunctional family falling apart. We wish the newly engaged a long and happy life together!

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