Actor Jarrod Spector attends "The Cher Present" Broadway musical opening evening after occasion at Pier Sixty on Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, in New York. (Picture by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
The stage musical concerning the making of the basic movie “Jaws” has speared its main man - Jarrod Spector.
Tony-nominated Spector, whose Broadway credit embrace “Stunning: The Carole King Musical” and “The Cher Present,” will play Steven Spielberg in “Bruce.”
“Bruce,” based mostly on “Jaws” screenwriter Carl Gottlieb's 1975 memoir “The Jaws Log,” will premiere at Seattle Rep, with previews starting Might 27 and a gap evening set for June 8. It's named after the nickname given to the 25-foot mechanical Nice White Shark stars of “Jaws.”
The musical facilities on a younger Spielberg dealing with poor climate, harmful water, hostile locals, an exploding price range, countless delays and a extremely dysfunctional Bruce to make “Jaws.”
In a press release, Spector mentioned it's a “actual honor to painting maybe the foremost genius in all of filmmaking” and that the musical is “concerning the group of sensible artists who stared down each impediment possible to someway emerge with this genre-defying masterpiece. I simply hope Mr. Spielberg would not thoughts that his singing voice sounds an terrible lot like my very own.”
“Bruce” has music by Richard Oberacker and story and lyrics by Oberacker and Robert Taylor, the workforce behind the 2017 Broadway musical “Bandstand.” Will probably be directed and choreographed by Donna Feore.
Spector grew up in Philadelphia, attended Princeton College and educated at Atlantic Theater Firm. He made his Broadway debut as Gavroche within the authentic manufacturing of “Les Miserables.” He performed a record-breaking 1,500 performances as Frankie Valli in “Jersey Boys” on Broadway.
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