Sigourney Weaver helps school celebrate ‘Alien’ production

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NORTH BERGEN, N.J. (AP) — Sigourney Weaver helped make a New Jersey high school’s encore stage production
of "Alien" a special event.
"Alien: The Play" had drawn widespread praise after videos and images of the performances at
North Bergen High School were posted online.
Among those applauding the show was Weaver, who played the character Ellen Ripley in the 1979 movie that
spawned a franchise, and the film’s director, Ridley Scott, who applauded the students’ creativity and
the show’s elaborate sets and special effects.
Weaver had taped a YouTube video this year in which she called the production "incredible." But
she was at the school Friday to watch the encore performance herself, telling the crowd before the
curtain rose that "this is the night I’ve been waiting for."

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