When Georgia-bred actor Jackson Goad tells the story of how he got his Broadway break by being cast in the touring production of Tony Award-winning musical comedy “Shucked,” he describes a serendipitous comedy of errors amounting to something like fate.
“Shucked” — part of the Regions Bank Broadway in Atlanta series at the Fox Theatre May 20-25 — is a comedy about a girl named Maizy from Cob County (puns intended) who sets out to save her town’s dying corn crop. Before Goad auditioned for the musical,he had nearly given up on acting. He had sent out 400 online audition tapes and attended many more in-person auditions in New York where he was majoring in acting at Ithaca College. He had only received a single callback.
Then he read Robert Horn’s script for “Shucked.” As a true Southerner whose father and grandfather shared Horn’s witty style of comedic country storytelling loaded with punchlines and puns, the play felt as if it was in his blood…