Sunday, March 4, 2012

Brad Pitt Star Joins Prop. 8 Games

Brad Pitt Star Joins Prop. 8 Games: Brad Pitt is set to the cast of the play West Coast in the first 8 to close the play written by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk) that the legal battle for Proposition 8, California law banning gay marriage canceled following.

Pitt plays the United States District Judge Vaughn R. Chief Walker, who made Prop. 8 unconstitutional after the presidency of the process 12 days of the public. He joins a cast George Clooney and Martin Sheen (the principal applicant co-counsel), Christine Lahti and Jamie Lee Curtis (as a couple lesbians), Matthew Morrison and Matt Bomer (as a gay couple), but also includes Kevin Bacon, Jane Lynch, John C. Reilly, Campbell Brown, Chris Colfer, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Cleve Jones, Rory O'Malley, George Takei, Yeardley Smith, Vanessa Garcia, Panatierre Jansen, James Pickens Jr., and Bridger Zadina.

The American Foundation for Equal Rights and the impact of Broadway also announced that the performance will be broadcast live on YouTube at 19:45 PT on Saturday, March 3, with a pre-show broadcast at 7:30. Director Rob Reiner's a video explaining the game and invite people to the live broadcast, which is available here to watch.

"Finally, all Americans can see for themselves what happens when prejudice and fear being judged by a court," said Chad Griffin AFER CEO in a statement. "For over two years, supporters of anti-marriage Proposition 8 has fought tooth and nail to hide their discriminatory arguments to the American people. But on Saturday night, thanks to YouTube and our incredible cast, people across the country, Los Angeles to Little Rock in Baltimore, the chance to see as a pledge to the constitution of liberty and equality for everyone is protected. "

The first show premiered on Broadway in September (with members of the cast, like Morgan Freeman, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin) and is set on a national tour in 2012, although the A-list stars on the West Coast should not stay with the reading room.

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