THE BLOODY IRISH Musical Coming to Broadway This Spring?

According to the Sunday Times, THE BLOODY IRISH, a new musical about the 1916 Easter Rising, is Broadway-bound. The show will reportedly open at the Neil Simon Theatre in April before launching a North American tour. An official announcement has not yet been made.

Written by Barry Devlin, directed for the stage by Michael Barker-Caven, music composed and arranged by David Downes, this 80 minute musical drama played at the Dublin City University's Helix Theatre last year and was broadcast in the US in October 2015 on PBS.

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The DCU cast included Malcolm Sinclair as General Maxwell, Lorcan Cranitch as Connolly, Gavin O'Connor as Pearse and Lisa Lambe as Elizabeth.

General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell - the man who signed the death warrants of the 1916 leaders - narrates this dramatic retelling of the events of Easter Week. Starting out with a belief that the rising is a foul act of treachery, Maxwell has a change of heart, asking in the end whether he has made a grievous mistake in sending Pearse, Connolly and the rest to their death.

His questioning is driven along by the action that unfolds - a combination of song and dramatic cameos set in the GPO and in the killing fields of the suburbs - as Easter week progresses; action that culminates in the execution of the leaders and in the change of public attitudes to English rule that led to the war of independence and the setting up of the Free State .

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