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Dead Outlaw

By: David Yazbek, Erik Della Penna, Itamar Moses
Narrated by: Andrew Durand, Dashiell Eaves, Eddie Cooper, Jeb Brown, Julia Knitel, Ken Marks, Thomas Sesma, Trent Saunders
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Recipient of 7 Tony Award Nominations, Including Best Musical

“THE BEST MUSICAL OF THE DECADE! It will revive your faith in Broadway itself.” —USA Today

“This truly twisted yarn is THE SURPRISINGLY FEEL-GOOD MUSICAL OF THE SEASON! It should have a hell of an afterlife.” —The New York Times

Directed By David Cromer

Based on a “that can’t actually be true” story, Dead Outlaw is the darkly hilarious and wildly inventive new musical about Elmer McCurdy, an early 20th-century outlaw who became a traveling corpse and accidental celebrity. After a botched train robbery and an untimely death, Elmer’s body embarks on a decades-long postmortem adventure—through carnivals, roadside attractions, wax museums, and even a Hollywood film set. Dead Outlaw dives into the absurdity of fame, the inevitability of failure, and the meaning—or utter meaninglessness—of legacy.

With music and lyrics by Tony Award winner David Yazbek (The Band’s Visit) and Erik Della Penna, and a book by Tony Award winner Itamar Moses (The Band’s Visit), and directed by Tony Award winner David Cromer (The Band’s Visit)- Dead Outlaw marks Audible’s first-ever commissioned musical.

Available in Dolby Atmos on Audible.

©2024 David Yazbek, Erik Della Penna, and Itamar Moses (P)2025 AO Media, LLC Entertainment & Performing Arts Historical True Crime Funny Witty
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This is Audible’s first ever musical and a blackly comic one at that. It’s inspired by the life and death of Elmer McCurdy, who met his demise in 1911 during a botched robbery only that wasn’t the end of his story as his embalmed body was used in a variety of ways in the name of entertainment. The musical is a look at how someone’s death can be turned into a cynical money making enterprise and as one review says perhaps only in America. For an audio musical it was very well done as it all melded well together as the narration filled in aspects of his life and death plus the songs and dramatised sections complemented each other well. I hope Audible release some more musical theatre.

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Loved the musical interludes, would enjoy more recordings like this, also the length was perfect

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