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Brian Gilligan on Unleashing His Inner James Brown in The Commitments & Why the West End Is Like 'Little Dublin' by Matt Wolf

Irish actor Brian Gilligan has been playing the defining role of Deco in the rock musical The Commitments at the Palace Theatre since September—meanwhile, the role’s originator, Killian Donnelly, has moved on to headline the U.K. premiere of Memphis a few streets away. Just a kid when the Alan Parker film was released in 1991, Gilligan has nonetheless had a lifelong affection for this story of a community…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:28AM on January 22, 2015

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