(For this show, which transferred from London to Broadway, Brook won the Tony Award for Best Director, in 1966).
His new Shakespeare production (which transfers from Liverpool to the Young Vic in January) is quietly |absorbing at the off.
Smith played the eponymous lead in Neil LaBute's uneasy comedy Fat Pig, which transferred from Trafalgar Studios to the West End's Comedy theatre.
A similar thing happened, he says, with Polly Stenham's play That Face which transferred from the Upstairs space to the West End.
Stephen Rea stars as a troubled Ulster loyalist in David Ireland's compelling Cyprus Avenue, which transfers from the Abbey Dublin to the Royal Court in London.
Berry appears alongside fellow judge Paul Hollywood on The Great British Bake Off, which transferred from BBC2 to BBC1 last month.
Unlike those exhibitions, "Blues for Smoke", which transfers from Los Angeles to the Whitney Museum in New York in February, has no costumes.
The show is, they hope, following a similar trajectory to the spoof theatrical version of The 39 Steps, which transferred from Kilburn's Tricycle theatre to the Criterion in the West End in 2006 and has stayed there.
Carousel, which transferred from the National in 1994, did decently (it won plaudits for being the first mixed-race production to appear on Broadway), but Hytner's next big musical, inauspiciously entitled Sweet Smell of Success, met with disaster.
Roberta Taylor and David Ryall as Archie's wife and father also join the cast under director Greg Hersov, who had a previous notable Osborne success with a revival of Look Back In Anger, starring Michael Sheen, which transferred from Manchester to the NT.
