EXCLUSIVE: Michael McKean will join the previously announced Bob Odenkirk, Kieran Culkin and Bill Burr in the upcoming Broadway revival of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross.
McKean will play George Aaronow, the meek and timid real estate salesman played by Alan Arkin in the 1993 film adaptation. The role was originated on Broadway in 1984 by Chicago stage actor Mike Nussbaum.
The casting will reunite McKean with his Better Call Saul co-star Odenkirk. McKean played Chuck McGill, younger brother and rival of Odenkirk’s Jimmy McGill aka Saul Goodman.
Set for a spring 2025 opening, Glengarry Glen Ross, to be directed by Tony-winning Patrick Marber (Leopoldstadt), will mark McKean’s first Broadway performance since 2017’s The Little Foxes. He made his Broadway debut in the 1990 mystery-thriller Accomplice opposite Jason Alexander, and subsequently appeared in productions of Hairspray (2002), The Pajama Game (2006), The Homecoming (2007), Superior Donuts (2009), Gore Vidal’s The Best Man (2012) and All The Way (2014).
The official synopsis: Glengarry Glen Ross is set in a cutthroat Chicago real estate office where four salespeople compete to sell mostly worthless properties to unwitting customers. Whoever sells the most wins a car; whoever sells the least is out of a job – a ruthless environment where each character will do anything to come out on top.
Additional cast, production dates, design team and venue will be announced at a later date. Jeffrey Richards and Rebecca Gold are the lead producers.
The Glengarry revival was announced last month with the casting of Odenkirk, Culkin and Burr. Since its original Broadway production in 1984, Mamet’s Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning play has been revived on Broadway twice, including in 2005 with a production starring Alan Alda and Liev Schreiber and in 2012 with Al Pacino and Bobby Cannavale. Jeffrey Tambor played George Aaronow in 2005, and Richard Schiff took the role in 2012.
McKean, left, and Alan Arkin in 1993 film version of ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’
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The 1992 film directed by James Foley starred, in addition to Arkin, Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin and Ed Harris.
McKean will soon be seen in Season 2 of Netflix’s The Diplomat, which debuts on October 31. He’s also reprising his classic role of David St. Hubbins in the upcoming This Is Spinal Tap sequel (working title: Goodbye, Cleveland) directed by Rob Reiner and reuniting McKean with his old Spinal Tap bandmates Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer.
McKean is represented by Independent Artist Group and manager Harriet Sternberg.
