|
FRONT PAGE
|
|
Sarah Jessica Parker Cast in Broadway Production of Jaws |
|
|
Written by S.D. Malone
|
 What Parker might look like as Chief Brody. The play is a part of the recent Broadway renaissance that has blurred the line between movies, popular culture, and the stage which has turned books, movies and famous singers into plays (”The Color Purple” and “Moving Out”) and vice versa (“Chicago” and “Rent”). Although the casting choice by acclaimed stage director Peter Haversly, whose other successes include the Frankenstein musical “Big Shoes, Big Heart” starring John Tesh and his surprisingly whimsical adaptation of “Full Metal Jacket” drew some criticism from the Broadway elite, Haversly claims that he really didn’t have a much of a choice. “When the idea to stage a Broadway version of ‘Jaws!’ was brought to me, I told them that I wouldn’t come near it unless Parker was cast as the lead."
"I mean, she just screams chief Brody. It would be impossible to find another performer with her kind of talent…and that looks so much like Roy Scheider. She is him to a ‘T’…it just sends a shiver down my spine every time I look at her during rehearsals. And my God, that voice…when she looks into the mouth of that paper machet shark and belts out, ‘Smile you son of a bitch,’ before firing a blank at the prop oxygen tank, I just get weak. Sometimes on Broadway it’s the role that picks the actor and not the other way around. She’s a real pro.” The decision by Parker to play Chief Brody was not an easy one for the “Sex and the City” star, but one that she felt that she had to take. According to reports, there has been something of a rift between Parker and Broderick since the success of “The Producers” because of his insistence that “theater is the only pure form of acting”-- an obvious dig at Parker’s supposed reliance on retakes during her film and television career and an option not afforded to live stage performers. |
|
|
Shop Treebune.com
|
