Mariska Hargitay stepped onto the Hudson Theatre stage ahead of her Broadway debut in Every Brilliant Thing. She described the setting as magical while noting the theater’s ornate tiers, opera boxes, Tiffany tile work, and gold velvet seats. She will replace Daniel Radcliffe, whose previous performance left confetti and handwritten notes. Hargitay plays Olivia Benson on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and is known for a more lighthearted offstage persona. She has not done theatre since high school, making the new role daunting. Every Brilliant Thing is an interactive one-actor work centered on a narrator recalling a suicidal mother and attempts to keep her going.
"“It's just so magical,” she said, under an array of hanging light bulbs. Her intense “S.V.U.” character, Olivia Benson, investigates sexual-assault crimes; Hargitay, who is more lighthearted than Benson, had a snazzy new haircut and wore jeans, a boxy pink blouse, and lilac stiletto heels. This week begins her run in “Every Brilliant Thing,” the interactive one-actor London import. She is replacing Daniel Radcliffe; the stage was strewn with confetti and handwritten notes from his show the night before."
"“You know what's so funny?” Hargitay said. “I saw the show twice, but I haven't been here since then. I've been rehearsing in a normal room. So it just hit me. Yesterday they told me I have to look up.” She looked up: three tiers of Beaux-Arts splendor, opera boxes, Tiffany tile work, and nine hundred and seventy gold velvet seats. “I mean, look at this,” she said. “This is nuts.”"
"Hargitay, sixty-two and the highest-paid, longest-tenured actor on prime-time television, has played Benson since 1999. (Her fan base includes wearers of “ HOT FOR HARGITAY” T-shirts and the Knicks hero Jalen Brunson, who hugs her, courtside, after home games.) She has produced and directed; she loves Broadway and has seen “Hamilton” twenty-seven times. Yet the new role is daunting: she hasn't done theatre since high school."
"“Every Brilliant Thing,” by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe, centers on a narrator recalling growing up, a suicidal mother, and efforts to remind the mother "
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