James Joyce's The Dead

This article is about the Broadway Musical. For the John Huston film, see The Dead (1987 film).

James Joyce's The Dead

Music	Shaun Davey
Lyrics	Shaun Davey Richard Nelson
Book	Richard Nelson
Basis	James Joyce's short story The Dead
Productions	1999 off-Broadway, 2000 Broadway
Awards	Tony Award for Best Book

James Joyce's The Dead is a Broadway musical by Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey based upon James Joyce's short story "The Dead".

Productions

The musical was originally presented Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons, starting on October 1, 1999. The opening night cast included Blair Brown, Paddy Croft, Brian Davies, Daisy Eagan, Dashiell Eaves, Sally Ann Howes, John Kelly, Brooke Sunny Moriber, Marni Nixon, Alice Ripley, Emily Skinner, Stephen Spinella and Christopher Walken. Musical direction was by Charles Prince, with music co-ordination and percussion by Tom Partington.^[1] It transferred to the Belasco Theatre on Broadway on January 11, 2000, where it completed a run of 120 performances before closing on April 16, 2000.^[2]

The musical ran at the Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), from October 14, 2000 to November 12, 2000, with Faith Prince and Stephen Bogardus as Greta and Gabriel Conroy.^[3] The musical had played an earlier engagement at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles from July 11, 2000 to September 3, 2000.^[4]

Songs

Source: playbillvault^[2]

Killarney's Lakes – Mary Jane Morkan, Aunt Kate Morkan and Rita
Kate Kearney – Michael, Mary Jane Morkan and Company
Parnell's Plight – Miss Molly Ivors, Michael, Gabriel Conroy, Gretta Conroy and Company
Adieu to Ballyshannon – Gabriel Conroy and Gretta Conroy
When Lovely Lady – Aunt Julia Morkan and Aunt Kate Morkan
Three Jolly Pigeons – Freddy Malins, Mr. Browne and Company
Goldenhair – Gretta Conroy and Gabriel Conroy
Three Graces – Gabriel Conroy and Company
Naughty Girls – Aunt Julia Morkan, Aunt Kate Morkan, Mary Jane Morkan and Company
Wake the Dead – Freddy Malins and Company
D'Arcy's Aria – Bartell D'Arcy
Queen of Our Hearts – Mr. Browne, Freddy Malins, Gabriel Conroy, Bartell D'Arcy and Michael
When Lovely Lady (Reprise) – Young Julia Morkan and Aunt Julia Morkan
Michael Furey – Gretta Conroy
The Living and the Dead – Gabriel Conroy and Company

Awards and nominations

Original Broadway production

Source: playbillvault^[2]

Year	Award Ceremony	Category	Nominee	Result
2000	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Musical		Nominated
		Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical	Stephen Spinella	Won
		Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical	Sally Ann Howes	Nominated
		Outstanding Music	Shaun Davey	Nominated
	Tony Award	Best Musical		Nominated
		Best Book of a Musical	Richard Nelson	Won
		Best Original Score	Shaun Davey and Richard Nelson	Nominated
		Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical	Christopher Walken	Nominated
		Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical	Stephen Spinella	Nominated

References

↑ Off-Broadway production listing www.lortel.org, accessed January 30, 2015
1 2 3 " The Dead listing" www.playbillvault.com, accessed January 30, 2015
↑ Jones, Kenneth. The Dead Revived at Kennedy Center With Prince and Bogardus, Oct. 14-Nov. 12" playbill.com, October 14, 2000
↑ Criston, Lawrence. "Review" variety.com, July 21, 2000

External links

James Joyce's The Dead at the Internet Broadway Database
Brantley, Ben, "A Musical That's Willing to Be Quiet", The New York Times, October 29, 1999

Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical (1976–2000)

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James Joyce

Works

Novels	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) Ulysses (1922) Finnegans Wake (1939)

Short stories	Dubliners (1914, written 1904–07) "The Sisters" "Eveline" "After the Race" "An Encounter" "Araby" "The Boarding House" "Counterparts" "Clay" "A Painful Case" "Ivy Day in the Committee Room" "A Mother" "Two Gallants" "A Little Cloud" "Grace" "The Dead"

Play	Exiles (1918)

Poetry	Chamber Music (1907) Pomes Penyeach (1927)

Posthumous publications	Stephen Hero (1944) Giacomo Joyce (1968) The Cats of Copenhagen (2012) Finn's Hotel (2013)

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