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Bradley Cooper Is Headed To Broadway

Alex Reed |
January 30, 2014 | 1:58 p.m. PST

Staff Reporter

The "American Hustle" actor is headed to Broadway (Tumblr).
The "American Hustle" actor is headed to Broadway (Tumblr).
Bradley Cooper is trading the big screen for the stage. The Oscar-nominated “American Hustle” star plans to return to the role of John Merrick in “The Elephant Man” on Broadway.

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The tony-winning show is about a disfigured man working as an abused circus freak, who eventually finds compassion from a Victorian surgeon. The story is based on the real life of a man named Joseph Merrick and is revered for using only physical suggestion to convey Merrick’s deformities, rather than prosthetics and makeup.

Cooper, who was named People’s Sexiest Man Alive in 2011, has played Merrick several times before. First, for his senior thesis at the Actors Studio Drama School in New York, and again in 2012, when he starred alongside Patricia Clarkson, Shuler Hensley and Alessandro Nivola for a two week stint at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

For a brief period, there were talks of continuing the show through fall 2013, but the plans fell through.

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The upcoming revival does not have a confirmed opening date yet, but Cooper will star alongside 2012 co-stars Clarkson and Nivola, who was also in “American Hustle” with Cooper. The show will be directed by Scott Ellis and shown at a Shubert Theater, whose location has not been announced yet.

Cooper’s transition to the stage will commence as soon as he finishes his next film, for Clint Eastwood, in which he plays a Sniper.

Cooper made his Broadway debut in the 2006 “Three Days of Rain,” alongside fellow Hollywood A-listers Julia Roberts and Paul Rudd. He even received the Audience Choice Award from Broadway.com for his performance.

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