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Artist
Dave Malloy
12+ albums
musical
about
Dave Malloy (born January 4, 1976) is an American composer, best known for his award winning electropop opera, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, and his chamber musical Ghost Quartet. Malloy grew up in Lakewood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland suburb, and began making theater in San Francisco in 2000. Early work included pieces with Banana Bag & Bodice, for whom has been the composer since 2002. In 2008 he composed music for Beowulf – A Thousand Years of Baggage, a Banana Bag & Bodice SongPlay written by Jason Craig and commissioned by the Shotgun Players in Berkeley, CA. Beowulf received the 2008 Glickman Award and a 2011 Edinburgh Herald Angel, and has played a number of venues and festivals, including Berkeley Repertory’s Roda Theatre, ART’s Club Oberon, Joe’s Pub, and festivals in England, Ireland, Scotland and Australia. After Beowulf, he co-created and performed in Three Pianos, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise” (with Rick Burkhardt and Alec Duffy, directed by Rachel Chavkin) that premiered in 2010 at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, winning a Special Citation Obie Award, and subsequently had runs at New York Theatre Workshop and American Repertory Theatre. His next work was Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, for which he was the composer, lyricist, orchestrator, music director and performer (playing Pierre). Comet was commissioned by Ars Nova and premiered there in October 2012, directed by Chavkin; in May 2012 the show transferred Off-B
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albums
Octet (Original Cast Recording)
Preludes (Original Cast Recording)
Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (Original Cast Recording)
Three Houses
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Natasha, Pierre And The Great Comet Of 1812 (Highlights From The Original Cast Recording)
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The Pacific/Epilogue
The Witches (Original London Cast Recording)
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Get Up (from The Witches)
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
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