Beetlejuice‘s Alex Brightman and Chicago Med‘s Colin Donnell will portray Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider, respectively, in the upcoming Broadway making-of-Jaws comedy The Shark Is Broken, joining the previously announced Ian Shaw (who will play his own father, Robert Shaw).
The full casting announcement was made today by producers Sonia Friedman Productions, Scott Landis, and GFour Productions. The Shark Is Broken begins previews Tuesday, July 25, for a limited 16-week engagement.at the John Golden Theatre, with an official opening night on Thursday, August 10.
Co-written by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon and directed by Guy Masterson, the comedy imagines what happened on board “The Orca” when the cameras stopped rolling during the filming of Stephen Spielberg’s blockbuster Jaws.
The Shark Is Broken debuted at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, then opened on the West End in 2021 to good reviews and an Olivier Award nomination for Best Comedy Play.
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