Luigi Mangione Musical Set to Debut Next Month. The Entire Run Is Already Sold Out

https://people.com/luigi-mangione-musical-11725781

cross-posted from: https://biglemmowski.win/post/6353551

Cross-posted from "Luigi Mangione Musical Set to Debut Next Month. The Entire Run Is Already Sold Out" by @return2ozma@lemmy.world in !news@lemmy.world

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exu@feditown.com · 46 pts · 1y (6 replies)

What the fuck. This is so wild

LostWon@lemmy.ca · 34 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I thought so too at first, but then got to this part and learned it's not the first time:

Luigi Mangione is getting the Roxie Hart treatment.

The accused murderer will be the subject of a new musical set to premiere next month in San Francisco, titled Luigi: The Musical.

Also appearing as characters in the musical will be two of Mangione’s fellow inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center - Sean "Diddy" Combs and Sam Bankman-Fried.

The play is already sold out for its entire run.

The premiere comes 99 years after Hart - a fictional character based on accused murderer Beulah Annan - made her Broadway debut in Chicago.

Annan, like Hart, was ultimately acquitted of murder.

neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y

Wait, was that supposed to make this less wild?

Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 1y (3 replies)

"Quick! I need a piano and all the rhymes for Luigi Mangione!"

-Arielle Johnson

HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today · 10 pts · 1y (1 reply)

There’s gonna be a lot of references to the evidence against him being bologna, an officer named Mahoney, having his hair cut in prison by a jabroney, his MAGA uncle Tony, …anything else?

Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y

Um...

"He's confined all alone, he

's been starved til he's bony,

And Miranda is phony

Cuz the DA's a crony

(Hope this song wins a Tony!)"

Editing to add, I discovered there's already an old Louis Prima song "Luigi" about a numbers runner whose downfall is a corrupt cop. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GAcOxvwZFYA

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Was Chuck unavailable?

SirSamuel@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y

Oooh boy! I can't wait to talk about this on r/theatre!

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 1y (4 replies)

How is this not the Onion

plant_based_monero@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y

Tbh a few years ago this would be crazy, but I guess the line between whats nottheonion and what it is is moving everyday

Ghyste@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Nothing in here is nottheonion anymore. It's just another politics community.

abobla@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 1y

I thought it was kinda crazy that this story is becoming a musical, didn't intend to be political.