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It's set at the Christmas party of Gabriel Conroy's music-loving aunts, where three generations gather each year for a holiday feast. This year, a guest's song awakens a memory for Gabriel's wife and revives a long-buried passion.
Music By Shaun Davey
Lyrics By Richard Nelson & Shaun Davey
Book/Libretto by: Richard Nelson
Based on: short story by James Joyce
Produced by: Playwrights Horizons, Gregory Mosher & Arielle Tepper
Choreography by: Sean Curran
Directed by: Jack Hofsiss
Type of Musical: Off-Broadway
Opened: October 28, 1999
Theatre: Playwright's Horizons
# of Performances: 112
Song List
- Prologue - Musicians
- Killarney’s Lakes - Mary Jane, Aunt Kate & Rita
- Kate Kearney - Michael, Mary Jane & Company
- Parnell’s Plight - Miss Ivors, Michael, Gabriel, Gretta & Company
- Adieu to Ballyshannon - Gabriel & Gretta
- When Lovely Lady - Aunt Julia & Aunt Kate
- Three Jolly Pigeons - Freddy, Browne & Company
- Goldenhair - Gretta & Gabriel
- Three Graces - Gabriel & Company
- Naughty Girls - Aunt Julia, Aunt Kate, Mary Jane & Company
- Wake the Dead - Freddy & Company
- D’Arcy’s Aria - D’Arcy
- Queen of Our Hearts - Browne, Freddy, Gabriel, D’Arcy & Michael
- When Lovely Lady (reprise) - Young Julia & Aunt Julia
- Michael Furey - Gretta
- The Living and the Dead - Gabriel & Company
Cast List
- Gretta Conroy - Blair Brown
- Mrs. Malins - Paddy Croft
- Mr. Brown - Brian Davies
- Rita/Young Julia - Daisy Eagan
- Michael - Dashiell Eaves
- Aunt Julia - Sally Ann Howes
- Bartell D'Arcy - John Kelly
- Lily Sunny - Brook Moriber
- Aunt Kate - Marni Nixon
- Miss Molly Ivors - Alice Ripley
- Mary Jane - Emily Skinner
- Freddy - Stephen Spinella
- Gabriel Conroy - Christopher Walken
Awards & Nominations
Winner of the Lucille Lortel Award for Best New Musical
Tony Awards
- Best Book of a Musical: Richard Nelson, James Joyce's The Dead
Misc. Show Information
Transferred to Belasco Theatre December 14, 1999
- Scenic Design by David Jenkins
- Costume Design by Jane Greenwood
- Lighting Design by Jennifer Tipton
- Sound Design by Scott Lehrer
- Musical Direction by Charles Prince
- Orchestrations by Shaun Davey
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