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Joni Mitchell sees his first Broadway in “Almost Famous”
On Thursday night, music legend Joni Mitchell, who turns 79 next week, took part in Cameron Crowe’s inaugural performance of “Almost Famous” and it turns out that it was her first Broadway show.
A spy overheard Mitchell telling his fellow audience member Clive Davis that “she had never seen a Broadway show before,” Page Six said.
Mitchell revealed the details to Davis during a hiatus on the show, but we hear she “made a dramatic entrance” just before the show began.
“She smiled bravely at the photographers and received a huge ovation,” says the source.
But this wasn’t the first time Mitchell had seen the show.
She sang praises to Broadway legend Tommy Tune, explaining that she actually attended the opening of the musical in San Diego and loved it then.
Our source overheard Mitchell describe the show as “better now and better than the movie!”
We were told the cast was eager to meet Mitchell after Thursday’s performance.
They waited on the stage to say hello to her and take pictures before a toast with the champagne we were told. Jann Wenner, Paul Rudd, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzeziński are just some of the other notables who attended the premiere.
Pennie Trumbull, who inspired Penny Lane’s character, was also in the audience.
The cast celebrated an afterparty on the Starchild Rooftop at the Civilian Hotel.
Crowe said The Post on the film’s success, “It was actually ruined by the re-release of The Exorcist, a 1973 film, when it opened. He added, “It was too Jamie Foxx’s film which turned out this weekend which did a really good job. But what happened was VHS. The VHS tape “Almost Famous” gathered a couple for us. So this is, you know, probably accurate as well, is like the ’70s. So, for example, the antique version of watching movies is what made us so successful. “