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Broadway set the stage for Natasha and Liam’s romance

By
Conn Corrigan,
IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Friday, March 20, 2009, 12:27 PM
Updated Wednesday, October 20, 2010, 11:59 AM

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Natasha Richardson and Liam Neeson
Natasha Richardson and Liam Neeson
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Broadway was a magical backdrop to actress Natasha Richardson’s life, which was cut tragically short on Wednesday, March 18. And, as a mark of respect, all the theaters on Broadway dimmed their lights on Thursday, March 19.

The actress was expected to be buried Sunday in Millbroook, NY after a heartbreaking wake at the American Irish Historical Society on Fifth Avenue in New York.

Richardson's husband, the Irish superstar Liam Neeson, was the last person to leave the wake Friday evening.

Neeson and the couple's two teenage sons, MIchael and Daniel, were joined by Richardson's mother, Vanessa Redgrave and sister, Joely Richardson.

Both Neeson and Richardson were big supporters of the American Irish Historical Society and the venue was all the more poignant as Richardson's mother, had attended the launch of this website there just last Sunday evening.

Several actors, including Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick and Laura Linney, attended the wake where Richardson's body lay in a mahogany casket engraved with an Irish claddagh.

Broadway set the stage for Richardson's great romance with Irish actor Liam Neeson. They first met on the set of Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie” in New York in 1993.

Patricia Harty, the editor of Irish America magazine, was there to see it. “The chemistry between the two was just as palpable off stage as on,” she said.

Neeson, who had already been in relationships with Julia Roberts, Helen Mirren, Brooke Shields, Sinead O'Connor and Barbra Streisand, was single at the time while Richardson was married to director Robert Fox.

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