“Dead Outlawye7,” a rambunctious musical that tells the hard-to-believe-it’s-true story of a bandit’s corpse that became a spectacle in early-20th-century America, will open on Broadway next spring.
The show, which had a successful run Off Broadway earlier this year, will be the first developed by Audible to make it to Broadway. The show’s earlier production, from late February to mid-April, was at Minetta Lane Theater in Manhattan, which is operated by Audible, an Amazon subsidiary that has become increasingly active in commissioning and staging theater Off Broadway (as well as on its audio platform).
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“Dead Outlaw” has a book by the playwright Itamar Moses, songs by David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna, and is directed by David Cromer. Moses, Yazbek and Cromer all won Tony Awards for their previous collaboration, “The Band’s Visit,” which won the Tony Award for best musical in 2018.
The Broadway run is scheduled to begin previews April 12 and to open April 27 at the Longacre Theater, where “Swept Away” is now running through Dec. 29.
The show is about Elmer McCurdy, a turn-of-the century outlaw who was killed in Oklahoma, and whose petrified body was exhibited in various places, including a carnival, and then spent years in a warehouse, a wax museum and an amusement park before being interred in the 1970s.
The show was a hit among both critics and audiences. Writing in The New York Times, the critic Laura Collins-Hughes called it “a compact, deliciously deadpan yarn.”
The Broadway run is being produced by Lia Vollack (“MJ”) and Sonia Friedman (“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”). Casting has not yet been announced.
Weirdlyye7, this is the second corpse-centered musical scheduled for next spring, joining “Operation Mincemeat,” a British comedy about a World War II spy mission that involved planting disinformation on a dead body.