Luigi Mangione musical celebrating accused killer’s ‘pearly white’ teeth and ‘folk hero status’ set for California stage
Move over, Jean Valjean — Luigi Mangione will soon be immortalized on a San Francisco stage in a sickening musical comedy glorifying the alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO gunman.
“Luigi the Musical,” slated to debut at the Taylor Street Theater on June 13, promises a “bold, campy and unafraid” take on the life and times of the man accused of perpetrating an assassination that left two young children without a father.
Opening night is already sold out on the official website, which uses the tagline “A story of love, murder and hash browns,” a reference to Mangione scarfing down the McDonald’s menu item before 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 corporate assassin turned accidental folk hero.”
Deranged leftists have lined up to align themselves with the 26-year-old alleged killer, including a legion of besotted fangirls who show up in force at his Manhattan court appearances.
The musical even makes light of convicted crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried and accused sex 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 side, Luigi navigates friendship, justice, and the absurdity of viral fame,” the summary continues.
The show bills itself as “both laugh-out-loud funny and surprisingly thoughtful,” adding, “If you like your comedy smart and your showtunes with a criminal record, Luigi is your new favorite felony.”
“Luigi” is the brainchild of songwriter Arielle Johnson and director Nova Bradford, who said they drew inspiration from the classic musical “Chicago.”
Behind-the-scenes footage posted by Johnson on Instagram shows a snippet of a song from the musical, which sounds about as tone-deaf as the subject matter.
“… flash those pearly whites, there were cameras there that night, and that’s what let the po-lice take me in,” Johnson croons along with Jonny Stein, who is cast as Mangione.
The lyric is presumably a reference to Mangione pulling down his balaclava to smile at a New York City youth hostel clerk, providing cops with their first good look at him.
In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Bradford sought to head off obvious criticism about mining such macabre subject matter for a tongue-in-cheek musical.
“We’re not valorizing any of these characters, and we’re also not trivializing any of their actions or alleged actions,” she said.
Mangione is currently on trial for allegedly murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50.
Prosecutors have sought the death penalty, in what could yield the first federal death sentence in Manhattan in 70 years.
