SHORT TAKES : ‘Shogun’ Musical Gets New Star
“Shogun, The Musical” is getting a new leading man.
Philip Casnoff, last seen on Broadway as the American grand master in “Chess,” will play the role of English sea captain John Blackthorne when the musical begins previews at the Marquis Theater on Nov. 1.
Casnoff replaces Peter Karrie, who opened in the show at Washington’s Kennedy Center last month. Karrie, who has starred in the London productions of “The Phantom of the Opera” and “Les Miserables,” will continue playing the role for the rest of the Washington engagement, which ends Saturday.
“It was an amicable parting,” Sam Rudy, a spokesman for “Shogun,” said Wednesday.
The lavish musical, based on James Clavell’s epic novel of 17th-Century Japan, opens in New York on Nov. 15.
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