Then I felt that it was a crazy idea, and the dangers of attempting to portray my father, warts and all, was too risky to contemplate. I wasn't working and I thought I should sketch out an idea for a play, set on Quint's boat, the Orca. "I had read about the troubled times they had on the set, and was fascinated by the three distinctive personalities at different stages in their careers. When talking about his idea for the play Shaw would say: If you looked at Shaw in the new promo images and didn’t know it was for the new play, you might just assume it was a picture of his dad from the original film. "One day, when I had a mustache for a part I was playing, I looked in the mirror and Quint was staring back at me”, Shaw reminisced. That wasn’t until he realized how much he looked like his dad. However, Shaw’s goal wasn’t always to make a play about the craziness surrounding the film. RELATED: 10 Movies Worth Seeing Multiple Times in Theaters, According to Reddit When talking to EW, Shaw would express his love for Jaws saying, "I had always loved the film, particularly the scene where the three main characters show their scars and bond, leading into my father's delivery of the famous Indianapolis speech, and the subsequent shark attack.” He would go on to say, "Robert was a writer and had rewritten the speech into the one that has become an iconic moment in cinema, not forgetting that he had originally been too drunk to complete it the day before, and had to beg Spielberg to try again the next day." Jaws fans get an up close and personal look at each actor as well as a group shot depicting the famous cabin bonding scene that kicks off the final act of the Spielberg classic. Entertainment Weekly shared a first look at the man-eating play with the trio all in costume. Shaw is also portraying his father in the play alongside Colin Donnell ( Arrow) and Alex Brightman ( Beetlejuice: The Musical) who star as Roy Schneider and Richard Dreyfuss respectively. The latter of which is the son of Robert Shaw who famously portrayed Quint in Jaws. When that didn’t happen, the production was expected to restart at the Music Box Theater in November.The play, which already had a critically acclaimed run on London’s West End, is co-written by Joseph Nixon and Ian Shaw. Mockingbird, then starring Greg Kinnear as Atticus, went on what was intended to be a temporary hiatus on January 16, vacating the Shubert Theatre but vowing to return to the Belasco this summer.
Original star Jeff Daniels returned to his role as Atticus in an effort to effectively re-launch the production, leaving the production for good in January, by which time Mockingbird, and other Broadway shows, were being hit hard at the box office by an upsurge in Covid cases. The Broadway production resumed performances in October 2021 following the 2020 Covid shutdown. Those productions reportedly will not be impacted by the Broadway closing. A national tour starring Richard Thomas as Atticus Finch launched in April, as did a West End production a month earlier. Mockingbird opened on Broadway in 2018 and quickly became one of theater’s hottest tickets, recouping the $7.5 million investment costs after just 19 weeks. Rudin continued, “I do not believe that a remount of Mockingbird would have been competitive in the marketplace.”Īlthough Rudin was believed to have discontinued taking an active role in the play’s production, he continues to control rights to the stage adaptation. Rudin, according to an email obtained by The Times, informed Sorkin and Sher that his decision “not to bring back TKAM has to do with my lack of confidence in the climate for plays next winter.” Rudin, of course, is the Broadway and Hollywood producer who ostensibly stepped away from all of his productions, including Mockingbird, following allegations of bullying and physical abuse of his staff.
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