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Vanessa Redgrave Makes a Magical Return to Broadway
For star Vanessa Redgrave and writer Joan Didion, it was a glorious night of famous friends and beloved family members at the March 29 opening of The Year of Magical Thinking at Broadway's Booth Theatre. As directed by Vertical Hour scribe David Hare, the one-woman play is Didion's own adaptation of her National Book Award-winning memoir which grapples with the profound grief that followed in the wake of the back-to-back deaths of both her longtime husband John Dunne and their only child, daughter Quintana. Despite the solemn nature of The Year of Magical Thinking, with such supporters as Redgrave's daughter, son, granddaughter and sister (Joely Richardson, Carlo Gabriel Nero, Daisy Bevan and Lynn Redgrave, respectively), as well as Didion's nephew and brother-in-law (Griffin and Dominick Dunne, respectively), it was a moment of theatrical triumph for the two ladies, as the production marke
