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'La Boheme' debut in New York
By Wendy Manwarren
InStyle
(InStyle) -- The event: Opening night of "La Boheme," the Broadway production of the 19th-century Italian opera, directed by "Moulin Rouge" creator Baz Luhrmann, in New York December 8.
THE GUEST LIST
Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Hugh Grant, Sandra Bullock, Marcia Gay Harden, James Gandolfini, Rita Wilson, Famke Janssen, Katie Couric, Joan Allen, Candice Bergen, Stanley Tucci, John Turturro, Harvey Keitel, Chris Kattan, Regis Philbin, Caroline Rhea and more.
THE SETTING
The Broadway Theater set the stage for Luhrmann's splashy version of this Giacomo Puccini tale of love and loss. Most famously known for his colorful takes on the classics like William Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet," Luhrmann upheld his Baz-style, setting the opera in the 1950s, but "it's the music, it's the story, it's the Italian. It's just told in such a way that anyone can get it," Luhrmann said. This was the draw for Baz and opera fan Sandra Bullock. "I was raised in an opera family," she said, "so I'm interested to see anyone that has a fresh take on opera that makes it more interesting for the public."
THE BUZZ
Is Broadway ready for Baz? "La Boheme" already received rave reviews from its October run in San Francisco, and Marcia Gay Harden thinks this is the perfect venue: "He's full of the unexpected, and that's Broadway."
