Recording of JAMES JOYCE'S THE DEAD?
Recording of JAMES JOYCE'S THE DEAD?
#1Recording of JAMES JOYCE'S THE DEAD?
Posted: 6/26/20 at 1:21pm
This musical play, done first off-Broadway and then too briefly on Broadway in 2000, seems to have disappeared. Saw it again at Kennedy Center during is brief national tour later. Was there ever a recording of the beautiful score?
#2Recording of JAMES JOYCE'S THE DEAD?
Posted: 6/26/20 at 1:30pm
This is one of my all-time favorite musicals and it's a crime that it never got a Broadway cast recording. It did however, receive a cast recording of the 2004 Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre production. While a decent enough recording, it doesn't capture what the original cast of the show brought. That's why whenever I listen to this show, I always listen to a bootleg recording that's been edited to make a "cast recording", because nothing beats Blair Brown, Marni Nixon, Alice Ripley and even Christopher Walken's emotion during his songs. It's a perfect show that deserved much more than it got.
#3Recording of JAMES JOYCE'S THE DEAD?
Posted: 6/26/20 at 1:56pm"Michael Furey" is such a gorgeous song
#4Recording of JAMES JOYCE'S THE DEAD?
Posted: 6/26/20 at 3:53pm
imeldasturn said: ""Michael Furey" is such a gorgeous song"
Twenty years later, I can still hear the catch in Blair Brown's voice like it was yesterday. "Such eyes he had...big, dark eyes."
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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#5Recording of JAMES JOYCE'S THE DEAD?
Posted: 6/26/20 at 5:21pm
I wish there was an original cast recording. I saw that show by chance on Broadway and fell in love with the music and cast.
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#6Recording of JAMES JOYCE'S THE DEAD?
Posted: 6/27/20 at 3:43pm
Same here. I was in NYC with my college theatre department and we were basically given free reign with only a handful of scheduled events. One of my friends and I opted to see this as we were both still riding the Side Show wave from a couple seasons prior and couldn't pass up the chance to see Alice and Emily on stage together again, even in smaller supporting roles. I thought this was a beautiful show in its simplicity and that entire cast was just phenomenal.
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