Angelina Jolie’s Daughter, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, Takes Charge As Assistant On Broadway’s ‘The Outsiders’

Angelina Jolie‘s daughter, Vivienne, 15, has assumed the role of a meticulous assistant on the Broadway production of The Outsiders. The mother-daughter team attended the show’s premiere at New York City’s Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on April 11.

“She’ll correct me,” Jolie, 48, who is a producer of the show, said. “She’ll say, ‘Didn’t you read the memo? We have to do this. We have to go through this. She’s been a really tough assistant. She takes it very, very seriously.”

Broadway’s The Outsiders is a stage adaptation of S. E. Hinton’s beloved coming-of-age novel from 1967. Previously, the story received a film adaptation over four decades ago, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and written by Kathleen Rowell. The 1983 film featured notable actors such as C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze, Matt Dillon, Rob Lowe, Ralph Macchio and Tom Cruise.

An exceptional cast plays the lead roles in the new Broadway production. Brody Grant assumes the character of Ponyboy Curtis. At the same time, Brent Comer, Jason Schmidt, Sky Lakota-Lynch, Daryl Tofa and Joshua Boone deliver captivating performances as Darrel Curtis, Sodapop “Soda” Curtis, Johnny Cade, Keith “Two-Bit Mathews,” and Dallas “Dally” Winston.

The narrative revolves around the Curtis brothers, Ponyboy, Darrel, and Soda, and their close-knit group of friends. Set in Tulsa, Oklahoma, during the 1960s, the story unfolds following the tragic loss of the Curtis parents.

When questioned about the advice she imparts to the cast regarding stage fright and maintaining composure, Jolie reflected, “I think there’s something beautiful about when they’re all doing this together. You see it as they go through the show, right? Everybody’s so much about finding yourself and what matters and coming through and having doubts and struggles and who you are in the world.” 

Jolie further explained, “Every night, the entire audience walks out of that theater with that same feeling. So I think that’s always going to ground them. And just what you heard of them singing and dancing through, they’ve responded to the material by learning the lesson of the story.”