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Video: Stars Walk the Red Carpet on Opening Night of THE SHARK IS BROKEN
May 17, 2024
In this video, watch as BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge takes you to the opening night red carpet for The Shark Is Broken to chat with some of the evening's celebrity guests, including Al Roker, Patti Murin, Christian Slater, Nikki M. James, James Monroe Iglehart, Orfeh, and more!
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Hello, I'm Richard Ridge for Broadway World
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The hilarious new comedy, The Shark Is Broken, has come to Broadway
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and we're here to celebrate an opening night with the First Sniders. ♪�
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I am a huge fan of this film, and I know you are, too, right? I am. I love this film
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Quote it constantly. Constantly. Much to her consternation. He quotes whole lines of narration regularly
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something that just happens to fit the moment. He pulls a Jaws scene from it
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Everything we've learned in life, we've learned from Jaws. How excited are you to be here, Patti
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Oh, I'm so excited. I'm so excited for a million reasons. He has such a huge support group here tonight
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and, you know, Colin, it just shows how lovely Colin is and how important he is to a lot of people
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and so I'm so proud to be here. And also, I know how excited he is
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This is something he has just had the most fun working on and has really been able to throw himself into
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and it's not easy being a parent and trying to put something like this up
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and so this night is a culmination of, you know, a celebration of the fact that he did that. Yeah
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Well, for some people who may not know, your husband, Colin Donnell, is playing Roy Scheider
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and I told you, he turns into Roy on stage. So it's so exciting
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I can't wait. I really can't wait. Like, I have not actually seen it yet
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and so this is, which is weird. Yeah, I know, it's weird. So I haven't seen whatever
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but everyone has been saying how incredible he is and how, like, you know, they've all just been so excited
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My family has seen it before I have. My parents, my brother, you know
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And so I am thrilled to finally be able to add my
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you know, my true, like, fan comments on to everyone else's. How excited are you to be here tonight
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I'm thrilled. I mean, this is a great idea for a show
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so I can't wait to see it. I mean, when I heard about this, I thought, oh, this is fantastic
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Of course, my first question was, who's playing Brody? Because I was curious, but then my best friend, Colin
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you know, he told me, oh, it's me, and I was very excited for him and a little jealous
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So I'm looking forward to see what he does with it. You know, I mean, this is it
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I love theater and I love Broadway and I love an opening night
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and I love having friends in the show and I love being in New York
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You know, I mean, it's just nice to be home. I grew up here
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I spent a lot of time away, and it's just nice to be home. I feel very settled and very happy
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and this is exactly where I'm supposed to be. What about getting you back on stage again
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You know, we're talking about it. There are some interesting projects out there
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that we're pursuing and looking into, so we'll see. I mean, I would love it
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We miss you here, just so you know. We miss you doing eight shows a week. We miss you on the stage
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All right, well, I'll find something good. I mean, the shark tank, the shark is broken
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I mean, how excited are you just with Broadway being back and just, you know, coming to a Broadway show
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and what it means to you? We have a house down here. I was saying in New York, we love New York
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It's great to see everything coming back for the producers, the actors
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It's fantastic. Yeah, as soon as Broadway came back, we were sitting in the theater with masks on
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We went to see the music, and yeah. It was great. Yeah, so
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Very excited about the opening. It is opening night. The shark is broken. How excited are you to be here
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I'm extremely excited, Rich. I mean, first of all, all of my friends are in the show. Well, I don't know Ian Shaw
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I'm looking for him, but my friends are in the show. I cannot wait. Also, I knew that Alex was gonna be doing this
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so I'm so excited. It's behind the scene of Jaws. Who else wouldn't wanna see that
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So it's gonna be great. You obviously have friends in the show. So many friends in the show
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I'm really here to celebrate Colin and Alex. It's gonna be a really great night
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You know, you're not gonna see your friends up there. They actually are Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider, and Robert Shaw, just so you know
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Shoot, I don't know them. They turned into them. You're not gonna see your friends at all
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I'm really excited to see that. That's thrilling. Were you a big fan of the movie
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I am scared of scary movies, and the tension is tense, but I am a big fan, obviously
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Who isn't? I'm very excited to be here tonight. I'm obsessed. I was way, way, way too young to see this when I saw this
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I was like in my single digits of life. So don't ask me how they snuck me in, but they did
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and so it's imprinted on me. Now you've seen the show already, right
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I have, yes. I didn't know it was gonna be coming tonight until recently, so I was super excited
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to get the opportunity to come again, because I already told Alex. I was like, I have to see this again
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I'm very excited. Wasn't it wild? I mean, I've known him a really long time
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and you got to work with him in Beetlejuice, but I was like, that's Richard Dreyfuss up there
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Yes, he came, we were texting, and he was like, you're gonna just start laughing
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when you see me come on stage, because it's just, he looks so different. I mean, obviously he looked different
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in a Beetlejuice makeup, but the blonde wig and the beard is so good
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It looks so real. I saw it in London, and then I saw it here in early in previews
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and it's fantastic, and the cast here, Ian and Colin and Alex, they're brilliant together
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It's amazing, and what's incredible is they embody these actors that we know and love
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but they make them real people. They make them their own. Jaws is one of his favorite
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My favorites. I love it so much. Every other day, let's see Jaws, let's see Jaws
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I saw it when I was 14 in Cape Cod. For you two, I mean, you work with Steven Spielberg
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I mean, when you look at the history of this, this went over budget so much
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He wanted to shoot on this water. This movie could have been a disaster. It became the first big summer blockbuster
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that made bazillions of dollars, I mean, because he believes in his passion, right
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That's the thing, and it came directly from him. I mean, we know Steven, and he's just
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when he believes in something, he goes all the way, and of course, he's so young. I mean, so much to prove that time in your life
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So I wanna see the play, because I wanna see the drama behind it
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I wanna see all the things. I hope they go there. I'm dying to see this and so forth
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and for Mr. Shaw to be doing his dad's, I can only imagine what that must be like
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so I'm actually really curious about sort of the catharsis that I've been reading about
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You're gonna be blown away when you see this. Ian turns into his father, Robert. Alex Brightman turns into Richard Dreyfuss
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and Colin Donnell turns into Roy Scheider. You're gonna be like, I know these people
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They are not these people. How exciting. Yeah, I'm borderline jealous. It sounds so exciting to play those guys
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You can do the matinees
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