Benjamin Walker & Girls' Zosia Mamet Set for Workshop of Broadway-Aimed American Psycho Musical
Great White Way alum Benjamin Walker and Girls star Zosia Mamet will lead a workshop of the Broadway-aimed American Psycho musical adaptation. According to The Wrap, Walker, who had been tapped for the canceled off-Broadway incarnation of the project, will play Patrick Bateman and Mamet his girlfriend. Directed by Rupert Goold, the tuner is eyeing a fall 2015 opening on the Great White Way.
The show premiered at London’s Almeida Theatre in December 2013 and had been set to make its U.S. premiere at Second Stage off-Broadway in February 2015. Walker's Great White Way credits include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Inherit the Wind. He starred as the titular presidential slayer in the film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Mamet's screen credits also include Mad Men, Parenthood and The Kids Are All Right; theater buffs will note that she is the daughter of playwright David Mamet.
American Psycho features music and lyrics by Tony and Grammy winner Duncan Sheik and a book by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis, the musical follows 26-year-old Patrick Bateman: a sophisticated, rich and devastatingly handsome Wall Street banker in 1980s New York City. He’s got a sculpted body, a model-gorgeous girlfriend and a to-die-for apartment. There’s just one snag: Patrick can’t get the blood out of his $5000 suits, because he also has a murderous, psychopathic alter ego that he hides from his friends and co-workers. The novel was adopted into an acclaimed film in 2000 starring Christian Bale and Reese Witherspoon.
