I quit drinking, and then I lost my car, and my house, my girlfriend and my job and my self respect. Now I'm homeless, unemployed, riding public transpo, broke, unloved and suicidally depressed, but you know what? today I don't have to drink. -- Splicer
When someone says "musical" don't you immediately think Christopher Walken?
Well, no, neither do I. But if someone were to say "James
Joyce," how about then? OK, still no Christopher Walken.
But what about "The Dead"? Ah ha! See, see, it all makes
sense to have Christopher Walken starring in a musical
adaptation of James Joyce's depressing short story "The
Dead."
The show is going to be directed by Jack Hofsiss, and produced by Gregory
Mosher, and no, I don't know who these guys are either. But apparently it was
Mosher's idea to involve Mr. Walken. Walken followers know that this will not
be the Tall Pale One's first musical -- he was also in the 1981 musical film,
"Pennies From Heaven," starring Steve Martin. Note the Salon story doesn't
mention that it was all lip synced!
Personally, I find this all very weird -- and it's not even the Walken part
that does it. Way back when I was in AP English we actually joked about people
one day making movies out of James Joyce stories! We thought we were big weird
lit geeks, but we thinking too small! Why just make a movie when you can stage
a musical! And why just stage a musical when you can stage a musical starring
Christopher Walken!
After this I'm not even gonna blink when they come out with "Finnegans Wake"
action figures and Disney does "A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man" ...
The musical will open on Oct. 1 at the Playwright's Horizon in New York. If
anyone actually goes, please please send us a review.
