Transfer over, Jean Valjean — Luigi Mangione will quickly be immortalized on a San Francisco stage in a sickening musical comedy glorifying the alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO gunman.
“Luigi the Musical,” slated to debut on the Taylor Road Theater on June 13, guarantees a “daring, campy and unafraid” tackle the life and instances of the person accused of perpetrating an assassination that left two younger kids and not using a father.
Opening evening is already bought out on the official web site, which makes use of the tagline “A narrative of affection, homicide and hash browns,” a reference to Mangione scarfing down the McDonald’s menu merchandise earlier than his arrest in Pennsylvania.
The official synopsis of the musical calls it “A wildly irreverent, razor-sharp comedy that imagines the true story of Luigi Mangione, the alleged company murderer turned unintentional people hero.”
Deranged leftists have lined as much as align themselves with the 26-year-old alleged killer, together with a legion of besotted fangirls who present up in pressure at his Manhattan court docket appearances.
The musical even makes gentle of convicted crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried and accused intercourse trafficker and disgraced hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, turning them into Mangione’s wacky jailhouse companions.
“With real-life cellmates Sam Bankman-Fried and Diddy by his aspect, Luigi navigates friendship, justice, and the absurdity of viral fame,” the abstract continues.
The present payments itself as “each laugh-out-loud humorous and surprisingly considerate,” including, “For those who like your comedy good and your showtunes with a felony document, Luigi is your new favourite felony.”
“Luigi” is the brainchild of songwriter Arielle Johnson and director Nova Bradford, who stated they drew inspiration from the basic musical “Chicago.”
Behind-the-scenes footage posted by Johnson on Instagram reveals a snippet of a track from the musical, which sounds about as tone-deaf as the subject material.
“… flash these pearly whites, there have been cameras there that evening, and that’s what let the po-lice take me in,” Johnson croons together with Jonny Stein, who’s forged as Mangione.
The lyric is presumably a reference to Mangione flattening his balaclava to smile at a New York Metropolis youth hostel clerk, offering cops with their first good take a look at him.
In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Bradford sought to move off apparent criticism about mining such macabre material for a tongue-in-cheek musical.
“We’re not valorizing any of those characters, and we’re additionally not trivializing any of their actions or alleged actions,” she stated.
Mangione is at the moment on trial for allegedly murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50.
Prosecutors have sought the demise penalty, in what may yield the primary federal demise sentence in Manhattan in 70 years.
