Theater is in their blood, thanks to their parents’ work on the stage and in front of the camera. “Because it’s a staged reading, there’s a net that you’re usually working without, which is nice for someone who is doing this for the first time,” Mackenzie said.Īlthough the brothers have been in films together before, this will be the first time they have shared a stage professionally.
His younger brother stepped in less than two weeks before curtain. “Everyone is going to be surrounding him because it’s his first time and want him to feel comfortable,” Sean said. Sean Astin (“The Lord of the Rings,” “The Goonies,” “Rudy”) co-stars in the show as Stalin and Pesotsky.Īstin, who had traveled with the show to the East Coast as well as overseas, lobbied director Glossman to cast his brother, Mackenzie, as a fill-in the director had already come to the same notion, having known Mackenzie from the John Astin Theater, named for the brothers’ father, at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. “He thought that not just his career was finished but probably his life as well because so many of his friends had been sent away or shot for doing less.” “I think there was a lot of music that was in his head, and he simply just physically couldn’t write out a whole opera,” said Setzer, adding that elements of Shostakovich’s 14th and 15th string quartets appear in the orchestral score for “Black Monk.”
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