Bruce is the brand new musical from the Seattle Repertory Theater primarily based on Jaws’ screenwriter Carl Gottlieb’s memoir The Jaws Log.

Bruce is about 26-year previous director Steven Spielberg who units out to adapt the best-selling novel, Jaws. Deadline reports, the present options music by Richard Oberacker and lyrics by Oberacker and Robert Taylor.

This isn’t the duo’s first rodeo as they’re the group behind the Broadway musical Bandstand, which follows army veterans upon their return from conflict. Bruce shall be directed and choreographed by Donna Feore, who’s most famous for her work on the Stratford Festival.

The present was purported to debut summer time of 2021, however the pandemic put the premiere on maintain. Previews of the present start May 27, 2022, at Seattle Repertory Bagley Wright Theater, with opening night time set for June 1, 2022. The present will run by June 26, 2022. Cast and artistic bulletins to come back quickly.

The synopsis of Bruce is as follows: “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.”

While Bruce is an adaptation of a e book primarily based on a movie, the development of flicks turned stage off-broadway musicals isn’t new. The first one which involves thoughts is The Evil Dead. The present was carried out on stage in 2003 on the Tranzac membership in Toronto, Ontario. The present immediately turned a success and ultimately moved on to an off-Broadway run in 2006 on the New World Stages.

What do you suppose? Will Bruce see the identical success as The Evil Dead musical? 

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