Broadway’s latest addition already has its sea legs.
Forget about the shark.
It turns out the most dangerous thing aboutJawswas all the unresolved daddy issues.
Colin Donnell, Alex Brightman, and Ian Shaw in ‘The Shark Is Broken’.Matthew Murphy
The play essentially tells the tale of three men stuck on a boat.
But these aren’t just any three ordinary men.
And this is no ordinary boat.
Ian Shaw in ‘The Shark Is Broken’.Matthew Murphy
They’re an odd bunch, these three.
Dreyfuss, all neurotic paranoia.
Shaw, the domineering Alpha.
Colin Donnell and Alex Brightman in ‘The Shark is Broken’.Matthew Murphy
And Scheider, the calming influence trying to keep the other two from killing each other.
ButThe Shark Is Broken directed by Guy Masterson is far from a maudlin experience.
or dinosaurs (hello,Jurassic Park!)
As Scheider,Colin Donnell(Anything Goes) has no freak flag to fly.
Of course, there is a fourth star in all of this: the boat itself.
(Nina Dunn did the video design and Jon Clark the lighting.)
But then again, that’s kind of the point.
