![]() ![]() ![]() On the other hand, structured as it is around the annual Christmas party given by three spinster music teachers, with much singing, dancing and talk about music to go with the turkey and pudding, translating this novella from page to stage as a musical makes perfect sense. The plot which is built on small moments and relies for surprises on the internal thought processes of teacher-journalist Gabriel Conroy is hardly the stuff of high drama. ![]() The performances have most likely grown richer with experience and the luxury of a larger stage in a theater atmospherically in keeping with the play's turn-of-the-century time frame. What I can report is that it's a charming and original work that's true enough to the music in Joyce's novella and different enough to give vivid life to its actual musical elements. Not having seen James Joyce's The Dead during that initial run I can't compare it with the production now at the Belasco. ![]() That ticket shortage applied to critics as well. Tickets to the initial, limited run of the musical adaptation of the last and best-known of James Joyce's Dubliner stories were scarcer than taxis during a rainy rush hour. The Internet Theater Magazine of Reviews, Features, ![]()
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