'The Shark Is Broken' actor wins award for JAWS-ome performance
JAWS inspired play The Shark Is Broken may have last performed on Broadway in 2023 but it continues to make waves… especially with awards! Back in April we reported the show had been nominated by 2024 Outer Critics Circle Awards for "outstanding" Broadway award (losing to Sterephonic) but the plaudits haven’t stopped there.
The Theatre Fan’s Choice Awards saw the play get nine nominations including Best Play (Ian Shaw & Joseph Nixon), Best Direction (Guy Masterson) and Best Featured Performer for Ian Shaw.
Further three nominations came from the broadway.com Audience Choice Awards - one for Colin Donnell (Roy Scheider) and two for Alex Brightman (Richard Dreyfuss).
Alex Brightman won the broadway.com Audience Choice Award for ‘Favorite Featured Actor In A Play’ which is great news for the play who’s rights were recently acquired by Broadway Licensing Global, possibly hinting at a revival of this incredible show. One award from 13 nominations… not a bad record for this vicinty.
Words by Ross Williams
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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.
Short tempers. Short circuits. 95 minutes, no intermission.