The producers of the new musical American Psycho just announced the show will make its Broadway premiere this season with previews set to start Friday, February 19th, 2016 and an official opening night on Monday, March 21st, 2016 at a Shubert Theatre to be announced. Rehearsals will begin on Monday, January 11th, 2016. The production will star BENJAMIN WALKER (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson) as Patrick Bateman.
AMERICAN PSYCHO has music and lyrics by Tony Award-winner Duncan Sheik, making this his first new show to come to Broadway since his Tony Award-winning Spring Awakening. The show has a book by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Spiderman: Turn off the Dark, "Glee") and is based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis. Rupert Goold (King Charles III, Macbeth) directs and choreography is by Lynne Page (La Cage Aux Folles, A Little Night Music).
AMERICAN PSYCHO will be presented on Broadway by Act 4 Entertainment (David Johnson & Jesse Singer), Jeffrey Richards, and Jerry Frankel in cooperation with Edward R. Pressman.
"I've been a huge fan of Ben's work on stage and screen and am really looking forward to working with him on
American Psycho," said Rupert Goold. "He is an enormous talent and I think audiences will be utterly seduced by his dangerous charisma and extraordinary stage presence. He'll make a killer Patrick Bateman."
"Ever since Ben ignited the musical theatre with his startling and superb performance in Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson, I had hoped to work with him again," said Jeffrey Richards. "When Jerry Frankel and I were offered the opportunity to join David Johnson and Jesse Singer of Act 4 Entertainment in presentingAmerican Psycho, my first thought was that the most charismatic and sexy actor for the role of Patrick Bateman would be...Benjamin Walker. The gift of collaborative partners is that we were all in agreement...and so for that matter, as I found out, was the entire creative team."
AMERICAN PSYCHO had its world premiere at the Almeida Theatre in London from December 3rd, 2013 through February 1st, 2014. That sold-out production was presented by The Almeida Theatre and Headlong in association with Act 4 Entertainment (David Johnson & Jesse Singer).
Living the high life in 1980s Manhattan, Patrick Bateman has it all - looks, money, style and status. He and his entourage buy the most expensive designer clothes, eat at the most exclusive restaurants and party at the hottest clubs. But privately, Patrick indulges in another kind of transgression. And people - including those closest to him - keep disappearing. ?
BENJAMIN WALKER (Patrick Bateman) next be seen opposite Pierce Brosnan and Kaya Scodelario in Paramount's The Moon and The Sun, based on the popular young adult novel of the same name. Additionally, Ben just completed shooting the male lead in the independent feature from New Regency and Locomotive Media Look Away opposite Aidan Turner, Matthew Broderick, Chloe Sevigny and newcomer Shannon Tarbet.
This December, he stars alongside Chris Hemsworth in Ron Howard's adaptation of In The Heart of The Sea. The film is based on the 1820 event, in which a sperm whale preys upon a whaling ship, stranding its crew at sea for 90 days. Herman Melville's Moby Dick was loosely based on this story.
Benjamin will also be seen as the male lead of The Choice, an adaptation of the successful novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks. The Choice is a romantic drama about Travis Parker (Walker) who lives in a small coastal town and falls in love on his first meeting with Gabby Holland, who moves next door. The film will be released in February 2016 by Lions Gate.
Some of his other previous film credits include appearing in the Clint Eastwood directed Flags Of Our Fathers, the Bill Condon directed Kinsey, the title role in Timur Bekmambetov's Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, produced by Tim Burton, and the Emmy-nominated HBO film Muhammed Ali's Greatest Fightdirected by Stephen Frears.
Benjamin is perhaps best known from his critically raved about performance on Broadway as the title character in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Benjamin's extensive theater credits include: the Broadway revival of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof alongside Scarlett Johannson and directed by Rob Ashford, Roundabout Theatre Company's Les Liaisons Dangereuses on Broadway directed by Rufus Norris and co-starring Laura Linney, and Inherit The Wind on Broadway opposite Brian Dennehy and Christopher Plummer, directed by Doug Hughes. He also co-starred in Arrangements Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theatre Company, directed by Christian Parker. Raised in Cartersville, Georgia, Benjamin is a graduate of the prestigious Juilliard School in New York and the Interlochen Arts Academy. He currently resides in New York where he produces and hosts a monthly comedy variety show called "Find the Funny" at Joe's Pub. He is represented by William Morris Endeavor and Inspire Entertainment.
