JAWS inspired 'The Shark Is Broken' nominated for "outstanding" Broadway award
The 2024 Outer Critics Circle Awards nominees have been unveiled, celebrating excellence in both Broadway and Off-Broadway theater. The annual event pits productions from both spheres against each other across numerous categories.
JAWS insired play The Shark Is Broken has been nominated for Outstanding New Broadway Play! The Daily Jaws is proud to be an official media partner of the hit stage show first performed in Brighton in 2019.
(L-R) Colin O’Donnell, Ian Shaw ans Alex Brightman were the cast for the Broadway run in 2023
“The continued and deserved success of The Shark Is Broken is no surprise. For anyone that has seen this incredible show can attest to the quality of the production. It’s everything JAWS fans and theater lovers could ever want in a terrific night out. ”
What is The Shark Is Broken?
FADE IN: The open ocean, 1974. Filming is delayed…again. The 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.
Step aboard the Orca and into THE SHARK IS BROKEN, a “profound dive behind the scenes of the making of Jaws” (The Daily Telegraph, ★★★★). This Olivier Award-nominated new play is “hilariously brilliant and pure genius” raves the Sunday Express (★★★★★) and stars Ian Shaw (War Horse, Common) as his father, Robert Shaw, Alex Brightman (Beetlejuice, School of Rock) as Richard Dreyfuss, and Colin Donnell (Anything Goes, “Chicago Med”) as Roy Scheider.
Directed by Olivier Award winner Guy Masterson, co-written by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, and inspired by Robert Shaw’s experience playing Quint on the notorious shoot, THE SHARK IS BROKEN celebrates movie history and peeks at the choppy waters behind Hollywood’s first blockbuster.
(L-R) Liam Murray-Scott, Ian Shaw and Duncan Henderson who performed the first ever public show in Brighton in 2019.
The Shark Is Broken is up against tough competition with four other excellent contenders for Outstanding New Broadway Play - see list below.
Outstanding New Broadway Play
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Mother Play: A Play in Five Evictions by Paula Vogel
Patriots by Peter Morgan
Stereophonic by David Adjmi
The Shark Is Broken by Joseph Nixon and Ian Shaw
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