Breaking Bad A-lister Bryan Cranston is making the leap from hit AMC series to Broadway star. Walter White is trading in his meth cooking days for a role as Lyndon B. Johnson in the play All The Way.
The actors role in the Broadway production of the play was confirmed on Sunday by producer Jeffrey Richards.
The show just finished a sold-out production on Saturday at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The play has received mixed-to-favorable reviews with Cranston receiving high marks for his part in the production.
The shows producers are hoping that mixed reviews won’t stand in the way of Bryan Cranston’s star power.
All The Way begins with JFK’s assassination and depicts the first year of Johnson’s presidency. The play focuses on Johnson’s leadership in brokering passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Along the way spectators are treated to performances that surround Martin Luther King Jr., J. Edgar Hoover, Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace.
The play was written by Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Schenkkan and the production runs three hours.
Mr. Schenkkan revealed the move to Broadway but also said he has been rewriting parts of the script, particularly in the second half of Act II. Despite some rewrites the production time is expected to remain one of the longest on Broadway in years.
Only Bryan Cranston has been confirmed for the Broadway production at this time. Helping produce the $3.5 million production are Jerry Frankel and Louise Gund.
Continuing the move to Broadway is director Bill Rauch. As the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Rauch originally commissioned the play.
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