Liam Neeson is paying tribute to his late wife as he attended a Broadway show on Thursday, January 8 as he watched the revival of 'Cabaret '. This was 17 years after his late wife Natasha Richardson had starred in the show's revival of the musical.
According to a source who told "Us Weekly", "Liam came with his sons to see the show." The 62-year-old actor is the father to two sons, 19-year-old Micheal and 18-year-old Daniel. His late wife Richardson had died back in 2009 in an unfortunate accident. The source continued, "The show is obviously very special to him."
His late wife had passed at the young age of 45 after she suffered a head injury in a skiing accident. When she was alive, she won the Tony Award back in 1998 for her outstanding work when she played the female lead character Sally Bowles in the Broadway revival of "Cabaret". The show had originated on Broadway in the 1960s and it had inspired a film in 1972.
The role is currently revived by Emma Stone, following the footsteps of several names in Hollywood such as Michelle Williams, Molly Ringwald, Brooke Shields and Lea Thompson. Currently, Stone plays the lead female in the said Broadway revival with co-stars Alan Cumming, Danny Burstein and Linda Emond.
According to Cumming who was visited by Neeson, "It was lovely to see him," telling "Us Weekly" of Neeson and continued, "It was an emotional evening for him, but I was so glad to see him and it was such a lovely kind of moment. It made peace for me in a lot of ways. I think it was also lovely for Emma [Stone]. I gave her a picture from the "Cabaret" book of Natasha doing her makeup in the mirror. That's on her wall. Liam saw that and they actually have that picture of her up in their house too. It was a very lovely thing."
Neeson and Richardson were married for 15 years her untimely demise. Neeson told Anderson Sooper just last year, "[Her death] was never real. There's periods now in our New York residence when I hear the door opening, especially the first couple of years... anytime I hear that door opening, I still think I'm going to hear her."
