
The Dead
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Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey’s 'The Dead' arrived at the Belasco Theatre in 1999, capturing the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical and standing as an elegant, deeply moving highlight of the Broadway season. Masterfully translating James Joyce’s classic literary masterpiece from *Dubliners* onto the stage, the intimate, entirely through-composed narrative unfolds during a sweltering Epiphany holiday feast in 1904 Dublin, tracking Gabriel Conroy as a haunting traditional song unpeels a devastating, long-buried secret regarding his wife Gretta’s tragic first love. Directed by Nelson, the blockbuster original production starred international film favorite Christopher Walken alongside Blair Brown.

