Stream The YouTube Premiere Of Marriage Equality Play ‘8’ Starring Pitt, Clooney and Bacon

Maybe we should change our name to Pedestrian Gaily?

As tens of thousands of people line Sydney’s Oxford Street to watch some 134 floats and over 9000 participants in Sydney’s 34th Annual Mardi Gras, including a quarter-century Kylie ‘K25’ Minogue, another historic event is set to take place in the same vain vein as tonight’s festivities, albeit on YouTube.

The Tube will stream its first live reading of ‘8‘, a new play written by Academy Award Winner Dustin Lance Black, whose stellar back catalogue includes Milk and J. Edgar, about the 2010 trial of Proposition 8 – the contentious constitutional amendment that took away the rights of same-sex Californians to marry. Black’s play will seek to open the doors of the closed-to-the-public trial (once dubbed Perry v. Schwarzenegger) and will stream live on the American Foundation For Equal Rights’ YouTube channel at 7:45pm Pacific Time – so that should be about 1:45pm AEST tomorrow. Don’t hold me to the minute. Here’s the link with a to-the-second countdown.

Using official court transcripts and first hand accounts, 8 will be directed by Rob Reiner (A Few Good Men, When Harry Met Sally) and will star (in what has to be one of the most star-studded live readings ever): Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Martin Sheen, Kevin Bacon, Matt Bomer, Chris Colfer, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jesse Ferguson, Jane Lynch, Matthew Morrison and John C. Reilly amongst others. Everyone in Hollywood just got two degrees closer to Kevin Bacon, and everything tastes better with Bacon.

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