'Dead Outlaw' becomes a dream job for Julia Knitel

In less than a week, many of Julia Knitel’s theater dreams came true.

Five days after her Broadway musical, “Dead Outlaw,” opened, the show landed seven Tony nominations including one for Knitel’s performance.

“Leading up to opening a Broadway show is chaotic and hectic, even with the mildest of schedules,” she says. “But we were on a condensed timeline because we were opening on the last day of Tony cut-off. Everything was really, really intense. And then, to have your dreams come true, you just try to stay in the moment and absorb as much as possible.”

Before Sunday’s Tony Awards, that includes fittings, interviews, and, oh, yeah, that show that needs to be performed eight times a week.

Then, too, there’s the quirkiness of Knitel’s show. “Dead Outlaw” tells the true story of a corpse