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Dave Malloy

DAVE MALLOY

  
Nationality:    USA
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Dave Malloy is a composer/writer/performer/sound designer. He has written the music for eight musicals, including Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, an electropop opera based on War & Peace. Comet premiered at Ars Nova in the fall of 2012 before transferring Off-Broadway to Kazino, a Russian supper club built specially for the show; the show won multiple awards, including the Richard Rodgers Award and an OBIE. He is also one of the co-creators/performers of Three Pianos, a drunken romp through Schubert's Winterreise that won an OBIE in 2010. Other musicals include Black Wizard / Blue Wizard, Beowulf - A Thousand Years of Baggage (2011 Edinburgh Herald Angel, 2008 Glickman Award), Beardo, Sandwich, and Clown Bible. He has won a Jonathan Larson Grant, an ASCAP New Horizons Award, and a NEA/TCG Grant for Theatre Designers; has been a Guest Professor in devised music theater at Princeton and Vassar Universities, and a Resident Artist at Ars Nova and Sundance's Ucross Foundation; and is the composer for Banana Bag & Bodice. He lives in Brooklyn.

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below is a list of Dave Malloy's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Fall And Rise Of the Rising Fallen, The         Ghost Quartet         Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812         Preludes         Three Pianos
Fall And Rise Of the Rising Fallen, The

Synopsis:
the Rising Fallen a punk rock band their story and music from a fateful concert on a Scandinavian oil rig.

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Ghost Quartet

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Four friends who love each other, drink whisky and kill each other over the centuries

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Stage 773, Chicago    

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Black Button Eyes

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Musical

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Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812

Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
Lovers are betrayed, society is scandalized and glasses are raised in Dave Malloy's electro-pop opera ripped from a slice of Tolstoy's War and Peace. Beautiful, young, and pure as the driven snow, Natasha Rostova arrives in Moscow to await the return of her fiance from the front lines. When she falls under the spell of the city's most charming rogue, it is up to the disillusioned Pierre, a family friend, to pick up the pieces of her shattered reputation. Inspired by War and Peace, Malloy adapted a section of the book into a libretto, which he set to his original score that merges Russian folk and classical music with indie rock, electronica, and organ-influenced cadences. This radical spin on a classic story transforms Ars Nova's theater into a Moscow dining club: with no stage, the musicians, performers and audience sit together at tables piled high with dumplings and vodka as the action unfolds throughout the space.
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Ars Nova
511 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019     01 Oct 2012

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electropop opera

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Preludes

Synopsis:
Sergei Rachmanihoff suffered writers block after the poor reception to his first symphony. He went to see a hypnotist

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Three Pianos

Synopsis:
a theatrical explosion of Franz Schubert's Winterreise song cycle, Three Pianos is a colorful and imaginative evening of chaos that explores Schubert's music, life, and times. On a blustery winter night three friends, each manning a piano, perform Schubert's famous work adding their own fantastical touches and inventive arrangements, while drinking and grappling with fundamental questions about the nature of music. eventually the three slip into a wild reenactment of a "Schubertiad," a party similar to ones thrown by Schubert and his friends, and the audience joins in (with complimentary wine!) on an evening of hilarity and heartbreak, not to mention compositional mayhem, shifting rivalries, and some unfortunate butchery of the German language. Three Pianos is the winner of a 2010 OBIe award.
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written And performed by Rick Burkhardt, Alec Duffy, Dave Malloy

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New York Theatre Workshop
79 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003     19 Dec 2010

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Piece

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