"Dead Outlaw," a Broadway musical about a famous corpse discovered in Long Beach from the team behind the Tony-winning musical "The Band's Visit," opens on Broadway.
"Dead Outlaw," a Broadway musical about a famous corpse discovered in Long Beach from the team behind the Tony-winning musical "The Band's Visit,"Â ...
DEAD OUTLAW is the darkly hilarious and wildly inventive musical about the bizarre true story of outlaw-turned-corpse-turned-celebrity Elmer McCurdy. As Elmer's body finds even more outlandi…
With its cast fully intact, Dead Outlaw comes to Broadway just as pointed and playful as it was during its acclaimed off-Broadway run last year. While so much has already been said about thi…
An unmistakable sign that musical theater is entering a thrilling new era of unlikely stories told in unexpected ways, Dead Outlaw seems destined to join the ranks of Oklahoma! and Gypsy as …
This darkly exhilarating musical has what is easily the best new score on Broadway, written by by David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna, and an irreverent yet wistful book by Itamar Moses.
Imagine for a moment that the giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan, the tornado-riding Pecos Bill, the "steel-driving" John Henry, and other figures out of the American tall tale tradition were real…
Dead Outlaw has offically opened on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre! The new musical features a book by Itamar Moses, music and lyrics from David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna,…
★★★★★ David Yazbek's brashly macabre tuner features Andrew Durand as a real-life desperado, wanted dead and alive
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The corpse musical "Dead Outlaw," which opened Sunday at the Longacre Theatre, has been schlepped from the cool and intimate Minetta Lane Theater in Greenwich Village to a big Broadway house…
The indignities of the grave pale in comparison to the indignities of having your preserved corpse put on display as a sideshow attraction, wax museum exhibit, or amusement park horror ride …
Unlike the mobile British corpse in "Operation Mincemeat," the traveling American cadaver in the Broadway musical "Dead Outlaw" has a far less noble posthumous purpose than winning World War…
Musical theater creators have long explored some of the darkest chapters of history but few are as dark " or as unusual " as the hero of composer David Yazbek, lyricist Erik Della Penna, and…
★★★★☆ David Yazbek and Itamar Moses craft a rowdy tuner about a surprisingly lively corpse
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DEATH BECOMES HIM In 2016, Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's Bright Star introduced a sound I'd never heard on Broadway"a blend of Americana and bluegrass so distinct it felt like a new music…