Julia Roberts makes Broadway debut

The first lines spoken by Julia Roberts in her Broadway debut were drowned out by applause from the audience at an eagerly-awaited preview of Three Days of Rain.

The play, which started previews yesterday and officially opens on April 19, is Roberts’ first major project since the birth of her 16-month-old twins, Phinnaeus and Hazel.

A prop tomato fell onto the floor during the preview, making a noise that prompted laughter from the actress, the New York Post reported today.

Appearing in Richard Greenberg’s 1997 Pulitzer Prize nominee, Roberts plays a woman unravelling the truth behind her father’s death, and in the second act plays the woman’s mother.

Roberts co-stars with Paul Rudd, of Friends and The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and Bradley Cooper, who most recently appeared in the film Failure to Launch.

The actress did not take a solo curtain call, instead sharing the spotlight with the two actors, the Post reported.