Liam Neeson Natasha Richardson ANNA CHRISTIE Eugene O'Neil Playbill Jan. 1993

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Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson ANNA CHRISTIE Playbill January 1993
It was an amazing production that had the most unique bonus experience for the lucky audience.  The beginnings of the real time real life deep romance of it two leads.  Some 28 years later, the memory of that highly charged performance and that artistic and romantic coupling remains live.
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Anna Christie
is a play in four acts by Eugene O'Neill. It made its Broadway debut at the Vanderbilt Theatre on November 2, 1921. O'Neill received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this work. According to historian Paul Avrich the original of Anna Christie was Christine Ell, an anarchist cook in Greenwich Village, who was the lover of Edward Mylius the English radical who libeled the British king George V.
The play was revived on Broadway on January 14, 1993 by The Roundabout Theatre Company at the Criterion Center Stage Right. It was directed by David Leveaux and designed by John Lee Beatty. It starred Natasha Richardson, Liam Neeson, Anne Meara, and Rip Torn. It received Tony Award nominations for Best Actress (Natasha Richardson), Best Actor (Liam Neeson), Best Featured Actress (Anne Meara), Best Direction (David Leveaux), and won the award for Best Revival. Neeson and Richardson both received the Theatre World Award. The production won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for Richardson. It ran for 54 performances.