Full casting has been announced for The Shark is Broken at Broadway’s John Golden Theatre today, on JAWS Day (48 years since the film opened on June 20, 1975).

Two-time Tony Award nominee Alex Brightman (Beetlejuice, School of Rock) will star as Richard Dreyfuss opposite Colin Donnell (Anything Goes, Chicago Med) as Roy Scheider, joining Ian Shaw who will make his Broadway debut portraying his father Robert Shaw, who played Quint in JAWS.

Co-written by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, this new Olivier Award-nominated comedy imagines what happened on board “The Orca” when the cameras stopped rolling during the filming of Stephen Spielberg’s blockbuster, JAWS.

FADE IN: The open ocean, 1974. Production on JAWS is delayed…again. The film’s lead actors—theatre veteran Robert Shaw and young Hollywood hotshots, Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider—are crammed into a too-small boat, entirely at the mercy of foul weather and a faulty mechanical co-star. Alcohol flows, egos collide, and tempers flare on a chaotic voyage that just might lead to cinematic magic…if it doesn’t sink them all.

Directed by Guy Masterson, The Shark is Broken has set and costume design by Duncan Henderson, lighting by Jon Clark, sound and original music are by Adam Cork, video design by Nina Dunn, and casting by Jim Carnahan Casting.

The Shark is Broken begins performances on 25 July and will play for a strictly limited 16-week run.

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