Demi Moore Goes Backstage at Broadway's 'A Few Good Men' Revival

More than three decades after she stepped into the role of Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, Demi Moore got a front-row look at the woman playing her now.

The actress, who starred in the 1992 movie A Few Good Men, dropped by the new Broadway revival of Aaron Sorkin's courtroom drama in New York City and visited the cast backstage. Photos from the visit were released on Monday, Nov. 2.

Moore posed with the production's three leads: Krysta Rodriguez, who now plays Galloway, Tom Blyth, who plays Lt. Daniel Kaffee, and Bradley Whitford, who plays Lt. Col. Nathan R. Jessep.

For fans of the film, it was a fun full-circle moment, with the movie's Galloway standing shoulder to shoulder with her stage counterpart.

Demi meets Colonel Jessep

Moore was all smiles as she posed with Whitford, who was in his Marine Corps costume for the show.

Whitford, an Emmy winner, takes on the role Jack Nicholson made famous on screen: Col. Jessep, the commanding officer at the center of the case. In the film, Nicholson delivered the line that became a pop culture staple, "You can't handle the truth!"

Whitford's own history with A Few Good Men goes back further than most people realize. He joined the play's original Broadway run in 1990 as a replacement, first as the prosecutor Jack Ross and later in the lead role of Lt. Daniel Kaffee, according to Playbill's archive. In the revival, the Ross role now belongs to Michael Oberholtzer.

So in a way, the backstage photo brought together two people who were both part of the story's early days, one from the original stage production and one from the hit movie that followed.

The leads gather for a group photo

Moore also joined all three stars for a group shot, still dressed in their Navy and Marine uniforms from the show.

Blyth is making his Broadway debut as Kaffee, the young Navy lawyer Tom Cruise played in the film. Moviegoers may recognize the British actor from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, in which he played a young Coriolanus Snow.

His Hunger Games costar Rachel Zegler was in the audience to cheer him on when the revival officially opened, according to Playbill. Constance Wu, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Bernadette Peters were also spotted on the opening night red carpet.

In the story, Kaffee is a Navy lawyer known for making plea deals, not going to trial, until he's assigned to defend two Marines accused of killing a fellow Marine at Guantanamo Bay. Galloway pushes him to dig deeper, and their search for the truth eventually puts Jessep on the witness stand.

Two Galloways, side by side

A standout shot from the night is the one of Moore with Rodriguez, the two actresses who have brought Galloway to life.

Rodriguez plays the determined Navy lawyer who suspects the case involves much more than it seems. In the 1992 movie, Moore played the same role opposite Cruise and Nicholson.

Moore has opened up over the years about what making the film was like. She was pregnant with her second daughter, Scout Willis, during production, and she has said she felt comfortable working through it, even if her costar didn't.

"I think Tom was quite embarrassed," Moore said during a Q&A at the New Yorker Festival in October 2025, as reported by Fox News. "I could tell he felt that it was a bit awkward."

She explained that she "actually felt OK about it." Moore also recalled training hard for her role as the Navy lawyer before her daughter arrived, keeping up with her workouts so long that she went on a hike the same day her water broke. She also tied the moment to a bigger conversation about women in Hollywood at the time, who often felt pressure to choose between their careers and their families.

"Why can't you have both?" Moore said.

Broadway's first revival of the play

This production marks the first Broadway revival of A Few Good Men. Lincoln Center Theater is staging it at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.

Previews began on Thursday, Oct. 8, and the show officially opened on Thursday, Oct. 29. It's a limited engagement of 13 weeks, running through Sunday, Jan. 10, 2027.

The revival is directed by Tony winner Michael Arden.

Alongside Blyth, Rodriguez and Whitford, the cast includes Stephanie Berry, Nick Blaemire, Michael Braugher, Christopher Gurr, Billy Eugene Jones, Collin Kelly-Sordelet, Shunté Lofton, Michael Oberholtzer, Lavel Schley, Thom Sesma, Daniel Velez and John Zdrojeski.

Several of them step into roles that film fans will remember well. Blaemire plays Lt. Sam Weinberg, Kaffee's co-counsel, a part Kevin Pollak played in the movie. Zdrojeski plays 1st Lt. Jonathan Kendrick, the role that went to Kiefer Sutherland on screen, and Sesma plays Maj. Matthew Markinson, the officer J.T. Walsh brought to life in the 1992 movie. Lavel Schley and Collin Kelly-Sordelet play the two accused Marines, Lance Cpl. Harold W. Dawson and Pfc. Louden Downey, while Daniel Velez plays Pfc. William T. Santiago, the Marine whose death sets the story in motion.

From the Music Box to the movies

A Few Good Men has a special place in Sorkin's career. The play opened at Broadway's Music Box Theatre in 1989, and it launched his career as a playwright long before he created The West Wing and wrote The Social Network.

Fun fact for West Wing fans: Whitford went on to play Josh Lyman on Sorkin's political drama, which makes his return to A Few Good Men a reunion with the writer as well as the play.

In 1992, Sorkin adapted the play for the big screen. Directed by Rob Reiner, the film starred Cruise, Moore and Nicholson and became a major hit. It earned four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture.

A busy stretch for Demi Moore

Moore's Broadway outing comes during a big few years for her career. Her performance in the 2024 body horror film The Substance won her a Golden Globe and earned her an Oscar nomination for best actress.

She has also been part of Taylor Sheridan's drama Landman on Paramount+.

Still, a night at A Few Good Men clearly held a special meaning for her. The role of Galloway was one of the defining parts of her early career, and seeing a new cast tell the story on stage gave her a chance to revisit it from the other side of the curtain.

How to see it

A Few Good Men is playing at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center through Jan. 10, 2027. Tickets are available through Lincoln Center Theater.

With only a few months left in the run, fans who want to see the new cast take on Sorkin's famous courtroom showdown, and maybe spot another famous face in the crowd, will want to move fast.