Scrubs’ star Zach Braff is taking a break from begging for change on Kickstarter to make his Broadway debut in the musical adaptation of Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway. Braff won’t be the only star in the cast, though, as Vincent Pastore (a.k.a. Big Pussy) will be joining the actor-turned-director-gone-beggar.
Braff will be playing a struggling playwright who gets in bed with the mob and is forced to cast a mobster’s girlfriend is his new play. The only problem--and as Hollywood has proven time and time again, it’s just a minor one--is that the wannabe actress doesn't have any talent.
Braff will be taking over a role that first originated on the silver screen. John Cusack starred in that 1994 film version.
Mr. Braff might very well be on his way to winning an E.G.O.T (i.e. Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony). The 38-year-old actor has already been nominated for an Emmy award in 2005--for his role as J.D. on the medical comedy Scrubs. The same year, he won a Grammy for Best Soundtrack for his film Garden State, which he also wrote and starred in.
Could the multi-talented aesthete have a Tony in his future?
Speaking of Tonys...the Sopranos’ Vincent "Big Pussy" Pastore is set to co-star in the play. Given the passing of his good friend James Gandolfini, Vinny has issued the following statement:
“Jimmy was a great guy. He was sharing, I mean, we all stepped into something that we didn’t know where it was going to go. We were all working hard, doing character work, going from job to job, and the first time I met Jimmy was at the table of the reading. And then from then on, Jimmy became our leader. I mean, it’s just what he did. He just drove us into this unity as a family, and when we went to work, it was a joy, and he’s going to be missed.”
Five-time Tony winner Susan Stroman will pull double duty as both director and choreographer of Bullets Over Broadway.
The show starts performances at the St. James Theater in March of 2014.
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