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‘Waking Ned Devine’ Stage Musical In Works With ‘Come From Away’ & ‘Once’ Creators
A new stage musical based on the 1998 film comedy Waking Ned Devine is being developed with The Color Purple director John Doyle.
David Kelly, James Ryland, Robert Hickey, Ian Bannen, Matthew Devitt, 'Waking Ned Devine' (1998)Everett A new stage musical based on the 1998 film comedy Waking Ned Devine is being developed with The Color Purple director John Doyle, Come From Away book writer David Hein and Oscar winning Once composers and lyricists Markéta Irglová and Glen Hansard. Written and directed by Kirk Jones, the Waking Ned Devine movie was released by Fox Searchlight in 1998 and told the story of a lottery winner and his fellow residents in a small Irish village. Today’s announcement about the stage version describes the musical as “a wonderfully funny and life-affirming story about testing friendship and the corrupting power of money.”
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