‘The Shark Is Broken’ Review: Broadway Play About the Making of ‘Jaws’ Is No Blockbuster

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‘The Shark Is Broken’ Review: Broadway Play About the Making of ‘Jaws’ Is No Blockbuster
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Anything that has to do with Steven Spielberg’s award-winning 1975 film “Jaws” should be fun. After all, it’s a movie about the sudden appearance of a freakishly large, man-eating shark in a quaint…

” should be fun. After all, it’s a movie about the sudden appearance of a freakishly large, man-eating shark in a quaint New England vacation spot on a packed Fourth of July weekend, and the trio of men — a weathered shark hunter, an aquaphobic smalltown cop, and a strangely upbeat young scientist from Queens — who set out on the high seas in a dilapidated fishing boat to kill it. It’s one part “Moby Dick,” three parts campy disaster film.

This might have been a fascinating portrait of male ego and insecurity, with real insights into the workings of Hollywood in the 1970s — nowwould have been fun. But written by the son of the late Robert Shaw , the piece feels like artless autobiography or maybe even a son’s revenge.

To depict boredom in a boring way is a rookie move, as is using your characters for laughs by having them comment on a future that they could never imagine, but that the audience has lived through. “There will never be a more immoral President than Tricky Dicky,” a character says at one point, getting a big laugh at our recently indicted ex-President’s expense.

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