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Lucky theatergoers got a big treat on Saturday night … when an all-star cast including Brad Pitt and George Clooney performed in Dustin Lance Black’s play about Proposition 8, California’s controversial ban on gay marriage – in Los Angeles.

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Proposition 8 eliminates Rights of Same-Sex Couples to Marry. It was a ballot proposition and constitutional amendment passed in the November 2008 state elections. The measure added a new provision that “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”

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The performance was a reversal of sorts as some openly gay members of the cast read the testimony of those opposed to same sex marriage.
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Brad Pitt and Kevin Bacon
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Brad, who played the role of Judge Vaughn Walker, is impassioned about the issue and has said that he and longtime partner Angelina Jolie won’t tie the knot until “everyone can.”

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“We live in this great country that is about freedom,” he once told Ellen DeGeneres. “It is defined by our freedom and equality and yet we allow this discrimination to go on everyday and that’s not what we’re about. That’s not what makes us great. Until that is reversed. I just don’t get it.”
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(Top row L-R) Actors Jansen Panettiere, Bridger Zadina, Jane Lynch, Vanessa Garcia, James Pickens Jr., Yeardley Smith, writer Dustin Lance Black, director Rob Reiner, and actor Rory O’Malley (Bottom row L-R) Actors Cleve Jones, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Chris Colfer, Christine Lahti, Jamie Lee Curtis, Martin Sheen, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Kevin Bacon, Matt Bomer, Matthew Morrison, Campbell Brown, and George Takei
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Check out video of the play here – Brad takes the stage around 35:51, FYI!
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What do you think about Proposition 8, and what did you think about the play?