JAWS-Themed Musical BRUCE Will Take a Bite Out of Seattle in 2022
Josh Millican
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the shark-horror classic Jaws (directed by Steven Spielberg and released in 1975) is being reimagined as a musical. It’ll be based on screenwriter Carl Gottlieb’s 1975 memoir The Jaws Log. The theater company Seattle Rep plans to open the show in May of 2022.
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Deadline got the scoop, reporting:
Featuring music by Richard Oberacker and book and lyrics by Oberacker and Robert Taylor (the team behind the 2017 Broadway musical Bandstand), Bruce tells the story of a virtually unknown 26-year-old director named Steven Spielberg who in 1974 sets out to film an adaptation of the best-selling novel Jaws.
Synopsis:
While invading a sleepy fishing island off Cape Cod to shoot on the open ocean, he faced several challenges including weather, water, hostile locals, an exploding budget, endless delays, and a highly dysfunctional mechanical star named Bruce, to bring his vision to life in what proved to be one of the biggest success stories in film history.
Previews for Bruce will kick off on May 27th, 2022 at Seattle’s Bagley Wright Theater; the production will kick off in earnest on June 1st and run through June 26th, 2022.
“Bruce” is the unofficial name given to the mechanical great white shark in Jaws.
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