Hollywood-style hype as Roberts makes Broadway debut

Julia Roberts made her Broadway debut in Richard Greenberg’s Three Days of Rain, amid a red-carpet atmosphere befitting a blockbuster movie premiere.

Hundreds packed the narrow city block outside the Bernard B Jacobs Theatre on 45th Street in Manhattan last night. Even car park attendants across the street sat three storeys up hoping to catch a glimpse of the Hollywood royalty on hand to support one of their biggest stars.