Gossip magnet Sienna Miller makes a Broadway debut

Gossip magnet Sienna Miller makes a Broadway debut
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British actress Sienna Miller makes her Broadway debut in the Patrick Marber adaptation of the 19th century August Strindberg play about class and sex, After Miss Julie. The opening night was at the American Airlines Theater in Manhattan and at attendance were actresses Rachel McAdams and Claire Danes. Danes walked the red carpet with her husband, British actor Hugh Dancy. Danes and Dancy married just last month. After Miss Julie transposes Strindberg's 1888 play to an English country house on the eve of the Labour Party's historic landslide victory in 1945. On the red carpet after her opening night performance, Miller glittered in a short Balmain dress but said she was very nervous before the play opened. It suddenly dawned on me that this is the beginning of, I'm opening on Broadway and that's something that I have dreamed out since I was four years old. And all my family were there and my friends and that's a big pressure. I want them to like it. I was terrified but I get nervous every night but tonight was extra, said Miller. Miller's Broadway debut sees eight performances every week, each one requiring a great deal of energy to play Miss Julie, a character who swings between extremes. Sienna said that she found the experience quite exhausting and so for the first time, she is paying much more attention to her exercise and diet routine.After Miss Julie runs through December 6th.
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