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'The Bear' stars Jon Bernthal, Ebon Moss-Bachrach to head 'Dog Day Afternoon' in Broadway debuts

Jami Ganz, New York Daily News on

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NEW YORK — Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach are heading from the kitchen to the bank as “The Bear” stars gear up to reunite in a Broadway adaptation of “Dog Day Afternoon.”

The Emmy winners will be making their respective Broadway debuts at the August Wilson Theatre in the roles of Sonny Amato and Sal DeSilva, roles originated by Al Pacino and John Cazale in Sidney Lumet’s 1975 film of the same name.

Previews for the limited-engagement run are set to begin Tuesday, March 10, with opening night slated for Monday, March 30, per Deadline.

Olivier Award winner Rupert Goold will helm the production, which Pulitzer-winning playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis based on Lumet’s best picture nominee. The film took home the Oscar for best original screenplay (Frank Pierson), and popularized the phrase, “Attica! Attica!”

An assistant director insisted Pacino improvise the call to arms, in a reference to the four-day Attica Prison uprising in 1971, which resulted in the deaths of 10 hostages and 29 inmates.

 

The film also earned Pacino, now 85, his third Academy Award nomination for a leading role — and fourth overall — as well as nominations for best director, best supporting actor (Chris Sarandon) and best film editing (Dede Allen).

“Dog Day Afternoon” was based on P.F. Kluge and Thomas Moore’s Life magazine article, “The Boys in the Bank,” which detailed John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Natureile’s 1972 robbery of a Brooklyn bank gone awry, leading to a “dozen crazy hours” of a hostage situation. Kluge and Moore wrote that “200 police and FBI men, dozens of newsmen and thousands of curious onlookers” were at the scene as a result.

Wojtowicz was described described in the article as “a dark, thin fellow with the broken-faced good looks of an Al Pacino or a Dustin Hoffman.”

Bernthal, taking on Pacino’s role in the stage adaptation, won an Emmy last year for outstanding guest actor in a comedy series for his turn as Michael Berzatto in “The Bear.” The role also earned him nominations in 2023 and 2025. Moss-Bachrach won Emmys for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series for his role as Richard “Richie” Jerimovich in 2023 and 2024, as well as a nomination this year.


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