
November 21, 2002 – December 29, 2002
Chicago Premiere
Book by Richard Nelson
Music by Shaun Davey
Lyrics conceived and adapted by Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey
Directed by Charles Newell
The Chicago premiere of James Joyce's The Dead, one of the most lauded new musicals of the last decade. Friends and family gather to eat and drink on the Feast of the Epipihany in Dublin at the turn of the 20th century. During the festivities, a familiar song reignites a long-buried passion in one of the party's guests, and the memories of unfulfilled possibilities spark haunting epiphanies. Filled with Irish folk melodies and dancing.