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Paul J. Potenza as Robert Shaw, Christopher Marshall as Roy Scheider, and Cody Farkas as Richard Dreyfuss in promotional photos for Jobsite\u2019s production of \u2018THE SHARK IS BROKEN\u2019 Credit: Courtesy James Zambon Productions.<\/p>\nPaul J. Potenza as Robert Shaw, Christopher Marshall as Roy Scheider, and Cody Farkas as Richard Dreyfuss in promotional photos for Jobsite\u2019s production of \u2018THE SHARK IS BROKEN\u2019 Credit: Courtesy James Zambon Productions.<\/p>\n
Since it made a splash in theaters half a century ago, \u201cJaws\u201d has been a classic film. But in 1974, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider didn\u2019t know they were making a hit. <\/p>\n
In this play, based on the misadventures of making the movie, the trio is seasick and sick of each other as they deal with storms, malfunctioning mechanical shark, big egos and short tempers. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s co-written by Ian Shaw, who starred as his father in the original production. Robert Shaw died three years after the film\u2019s release, when Ian was 8. Before the show premiered at Edinburgh Film Festival in 2019, Ian said he spent most of his life avoiding association with his father. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe was a very successful film star, but I wanted to be an actor in my own rights,\u201d Shaw told People. But in the play, he confronts Robert\u2019s grief over losing his own father as a child (Ian\u2019s grandfather) to suicide. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s about love, I think. And you feel it in the audience,\u201d Shaw said. Jobsite Theater\u2019s production opening at the Straz Center this week runs select dates and times through April 5.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tickets start at $59.40 for \u2018The Shark is Broken,\u2019 opening Wednesday, March 11 in Tampa.<\/a><\/p>\n This article appears in Feb. 26 \u2013 Mar. 04, 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSelene San Felice is managing editor of Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. Prior to joining CL in 2025, she started the Axios Tampa Bay newsletter and worked for her hometown paper, The Capital in Annapolis,…\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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