It was cowritten by Shaw’s son Ian, who also stars as his father, who played Captain Quint in the film. The play, directed by Guy Masterson, dramatizes the long weeks spent filming the oceangoing portions of the movie Jaws, when Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, and Robert Shaw comprised the cast. Luckily this has not prevented me from enjoying myself either at Trader Joe’s or at The Shark Is Broken. The same thing happens to me every time I go into Trader Joe’s and see that sign by the entrance exhorting shoppers’ children to look for the hidden monkey somewhere in the store.
“Be on the lookout for the yellow barrel in the set from the original Jaws film!” I’m sorry to say that I failed to catch it. “Did you catch this?” the program insert for the John Golden Theatre’s production of The Shark Is Broken asks audience members.
