Complete casting has been announced for Rajiv Joseph’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, which will begin performances on March 11, 2011 ahead of a March 31 opening at Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre. Tony nominee Moises Kaufman, who helmed the show’s earlier incarnations in Los Angeles, will again direct the play, a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize.
In addition to the previously announced Robin Williams, the cast will include Glenn Davis, Brad Fleischer, Hrach Titizian, Sheila Vand, Necar Zadegan and Arian Moayed, all of whom appeared in the two productions of Tiger at Los Angeles’ Center Theatre Group, first in 2009 and again earlier this year.
Williams stars as the narrator for the darkly comic tale, a tiger held captive in the Baghdad Zoo. The play follows the intertwined lives of two American marines and one Iraqi gardener as they search through the rubble of war for friendship, redemption and a toilet seat made of gold.
Fleischer was seen on Broadway in Coram Boy and off-Broadway in Streamers with the Roundabout Theatre Company, and he appeared in Rajiv Joseph’s play Gruesome Playground Injuries at the Alley Theatre.
Davis appeared off-Broadway in Wig Out and at ...
Monday, December 13, 2010
Brad Fleischer, Glenn Davis & More Join Robin Williams in Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
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