Just a day before closing on Broadway, George Clooney and the cast of “Good Night, and Good Luck" performed the historic play about truth and journalism in front of millions worldwide through a live CNN broadcast on Saturday night.

The five-time Tony-nominated show reached far beyond the more than 1,500 people at the Winter Garden Theatre on June 7 for what cast member Clark Gregg described on CNN after the performance as the thrill “to have that suddenly become millions.”

“Opening night nerves, for sure. That’s the best way I can think of it,” cast member Fran Kranz said after the June 7 broadcast before the June 8 closing. “I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous. But it was good energy.”

The play, directed by David Cromer and featuring Clooney as CBS’ Edward R. Murrow, tells the stor

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