A ghoulish musical comedy immortalizing the alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO gunman, Luigi Mangione, will premiere in New York Metropolis — the real-life setting of the stunning assassination — this summer season.
“Luigi: The Musical” will take the stage at The Inexperienced Room 42 in Midtown West on June 15 — a mere 20-minute subway journey from the place Mangione allegedly gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outdoors of a Hilton Resort in December 2024.
The twisted “satirical” comedy gives a “daring, campy and unafraid” tackle the accused murderer’s life in lockdown whereas on trial for the muder of the dad of two.
It’s marketed as “a story of affection, homicide, and hashbrowns,” a reference to Mangione scarfing down the McDonald’s menu merchandise earlier than his arrest in Pennsylvania.
The present — which claims to “interrogate” reasonably than “glorify” violence — initially premiered in San Francisco in 2025 to sold-out crowds.
The solid of the Massive Apple premiere has not but been introduced. Representatives for “Luigi: The Musical” didn’t instantly reply to The Put up’s request for remark.
“Luigi” is the brainchild of songwriter Arielle Johnson and director Nova Bradford, who mentioned the thought got here from an thought “scribbled on a serviette on the SF Eagle.”
“Luigi: the Musical makes use of comedy to deliver deeper inquiries to the floor,” Bradford mentioned in a press release on the musical’s web site.
“Why did this case garner the response that it did? And what occurs when individuals cease trusting their establishments?” Bradford added.
The musical options convicted crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried and disgraced hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs as Mangione’s wacky jailhouse companions at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Heart.
The trio navigates “friendship, justice, and the absurdity of viral fame” by a set of musical numbers — together with “The Least expensive Room in Brooklyn” and the observe “Bay Space Child” sung by Bankman-Fried.
“Luigi: the Musical doesn’t glorify violence, it interrogates it. Beneath the absurdity and punchlines lies a severe critique of how violence is packaged, bought, and consumed in American media,” mentioned an outline for the present.
“The present takes intention at a tradition the place brutality is each leisure and spectacle, inviting audiences to snort whereas additionally asking why we’re so fast to tune in when somebody will get harm.”
In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Bradford sought to move off apparent criticism about mining such macabre subject 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 mentioned.
Mangione faces life in jail at his upcoming homicide trial in state court docket set for June if convicted of fatally taking pictures Thompson in a focused hit on a Midtown sidewalk.
He’ll nonetheless face life in jail at his separate federal trial — slated to begin in September — after prosecutors introduced they won’t attraction a decide’s choice to take the loss of life penalty off the desk for the 27-year-old accused killer.
Mangione gained’t technically be charged with homicide within the federal case, and can as an alternative face a cost of “stalking” Thompson, resulting in the father-of-two’s loss of life.
The Maryland native has pleaded not responsible to Thompson’s killing.
