Brad Pitt, George Clooney buddy up for ‘8’ in Los Angeles

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Good news, Brad Pitt and George Clooney fans -- the band’s back together. Or at least it was on Saturday evening in Los Angeles, where the two stars reunited onstage for the play ‘8.’

Penned by Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black, the YouTube-streamed reading at the Wilshire Ebell Theater charted the proceedings in the federal appeals court hearing that deemed Proposition 8, a state ban on gay marriage, unconstitutional.

‘How come no one knew their lines?’ joked an adorable Darren Criss, referring to the actors’ being ‘on book,’ thus qualifying the production as a staged reading. Criss admitted that the performances got him a bit choked up.

Like those of Jamie Lee Curtis and Christine Lahti, playing two married women -- two of the plaintiffs -- whose union was considered void once the proposition passed. Matt Bomer and Matthew Morrison played a male couple who were also plaintiffs.

Pitt loomed large as the judge, hearing arguments from lawyer characters played by Clooney, Martin Sheen and Kevin Bacon, and their witnesses and experts portrayed by the likes of John C. Reilly, Chris Colfer, Yeardley Smith, George Takei and Jesse Tyler Ferguson.

An after-party in the theater’s charming courtyard brought out Ferguson’s ‘Modern Family’ family, including Julie Bowen, Eric Stonestreet and Ty Burrell. Kyra Sedgwick came through for Mr. Bacon, and Brad and George stuck close by each other.

Just how we like them.

(Watch the play in its entirety, below.)

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