Decades before CNN agreed to a live telecast of Broadway’s Good Night , and Good Luck on June 7, George Clooney had originally envisioned it as a special for CBS, not a movie for theaters and a play on Broadway.

“But then there was that mishap with Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake at the Super Bowl,” recalls Clooney to Deadline. “And suddenly I got a call from the head of CBS saying, ‘we’re out of the live TV business.’ So we wrote it as a movie.”

Clooney’s vision has finally come full circle. For the penultimate performance of Good Night, and Good Luck — which opened in April and has since become the highest-grossing production in the history of the Shubert Organization — Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre will be equipped with 21 cameras for the live broadcast that’s set to

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