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Kad
#75DEAD OUTLAW Reviews
Posted: 5/9/25 at 5:08pm

These circumstances were entirely foreseeable when you fire the highly respected, long-serving, Broadway championing librarian of Congress without cause in a deeply disrespectful way.  Good for the Dead Outlaw team.


"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

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ACL2006
#76DEAD OUTLAW Reviews
Posted: 5/9/25 at 5:41pm

I hope they do one of those NPR Tiny Desk concerts instead.


A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.

RUkiddingme
#77DEAD OUTLAW Reviews
Posted: 5/9/25 at 5:55pm

one more reason to love this show!

BentleyB
#78DEAD OUTLAW Reviews
Posted: 5/9/25 at 9:33pm

I do hope we don’t get another Stephen Miller video and lecture. 

Fordham2015
#79DEAD OUTLAW Reviews
Posted: 5/11/25 at 8:18pm

Though not as good as The Band's Visit, Dead Outlaw is a welcome return to form for Yazbek after Tootsie. Ironically I thought it really caught fire once Elmer died- from the Osage train robbery on it was firing on all cylinders.

Durand is very impressive, Brown is a terrific bandleader and Knitel is wonderful (she also has great harmonies with the pianist). Sesma's big number is a hoot.

I preferred this score to MHE, and while not a tech heavy show, I would've nominated it for lighting. 

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Robbie2
#80DEAD OUTLAW Reviews
Posted: 5/11/25 at 8:50pm

steven22 said: "I originally had no interest in seeing this. I just started listening to the first part of the cast recording. I’m really enjoying it. How does the recording compare to the live performance?"

TBH, I would rather just have listened to the recording and not have seen the show. We were not fans at all but I like the recording better than the musical.


"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new." Sunday in the Park with George

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tacotheatrelover
#81DEAD OUTLAW Reviews
Posted: 5/14/25 at 6:52pm

Any chance this tours? God knows when i make it back to nyc and i don't want to miss this like i did swept away.

I miss swept away

MadsonMelo
#82DEAD OUTLAW Reviews
Posted: 5/14/25 at 8:49pm

I read on reddit that this has a in person rush. Has anyone tried? I think it will be my last show of the trip given that they will do a evening show on May 25

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ACL2006
#83DEAD OUTLAW Reviews
Posted: 5/14/25 at 9:25pm

MadsonMelo said: "I read on reddit that this has a in person rush. Has anyone tried? I think it will be my last show of the trip given that they will do a evening show on May 25"

very easy. $40 and usually front orchestra.


A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.

CJRochester
#84DEAD OUTLAW Reviews
Posted: 5/15/25 at 11:25am

I like it but it may be too quirky for touring audiences. Given how many on here have reported the show doesn't feel the same as it did in the Village, unless you are sitting in the front orchestra, that doesn't bode well for large touring houses. 

trpguyy
#85DEAD OUTLAW Reviews
Posted: 5/15/25 at 11:55am

Anyone else catch their dreadfully boring Today Show performance? The decision to do that song only makes sense if they’re trying to close the show. 

Fordham2015
#86DEAD OUTLAW Reviews
Posted: 5/15/25 at 12:01pm

trpguyy said: "Anyone else catch their dreadfully boring Today Show performance? The decision to do that song only makes sense if they’re trying to close the show."

"Something from Nothing" is one of my favorite songs in the show, it's the high energy coroner number as opposed to Thom Sesma's torch song (which is also great)

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Wick3
#87DEAD OUTLAW Reviews
Posted: 5/15/25 at 12:17pm

tacotheatrelover said: "Any chance this tours? God knows when i make it back to nyc and i don't want to miss this like i did swept away.

I miss swept away
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I'm guessing it depends on how the roadies from the conference like the show this week and whether they think their subsrcribers/base will want to see the show.

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EDSOSLO858
#88DEAD OUTLAW Reviews
Posted: 5/15/25 at 12:28pm

Eddie Cooper, Trent Saunders, and the company performing "Something From Nothing":

https://www.today.com/video/-dead-outlaw-cast-performs-something-from-nothing-on-today-239632965745

Jeb Brown, Andrew Durand, and Julia Knitel performing "Normal":

https://www.today.com/video/broadway-cast-of-dead-outlaw-performs-normal-live-on-today-239635013653


Oh look, a bibu!

Owen22
#89DEAD OUTLAW Reviews
Posted: 5/16/25 at 10:35am

trpguyy said: "Anyone else catch their dreadfully boring Today Show performance? The decision to do that song only makes sense if they’re trying to close the show."

Those are two of the best songs from the show!  Which is a hard thing to say when a musical has SO MANY great songs.  So many more great songs than any other (excellent) show(s) this season. The craft is almost gone and Yazbek keeps it alive (while Lin Manuel pushes it forward). I actually think the Smash songs are pretty great too, but they didn't organically rise from the actual writing of a Broadway show. I am steadily readying for MHE, a wonderful little show by the way, to win Best Score and it will be a travesty (I'm okay with it winning Best Musical, even though its down my list after Dead Outlaw and Operation Mincemeat).  Real Women Have Curves has a better score than Maybe Happy Ending!  But back to my original point: the art of song-writing on Broadway is changing to the point I grasp any show that has actual, real songs, as opposed to songs that are..basically structured recitative. God help me, my favorite musical last season was Gatsby, only because it had real songs. But Outlaw is a lovely, boundary pushing musical that is at once experimental and moving. And tuneful. I want show tunes. I want show tunes.

Updated On: 5/16/25 at 10:35 AM

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carolinaguy
#90DEAD OUTLAW Reviews
Posted: 5/16/25 at 11:17am

I loved the variety in this score at the Longacre, and I'm enjoying it even more listening to Part 1 of the cast recording. "Something from Nothing" is a wonderfully vibey song with a great hook. The only thing that bothers me about any of it is that Natalie Wood died after the events depicted in "Up to the Stars," but other than that anachronism it's wonderful.

It would surely get my vote for score, while I would still vote MHE for Best Musical.


Just remembering you've had an "and" When you're back to "or" Makes the "or" mean more than it did before

BanjoKazooie
#91DEAD OUTLAW Reviews
Posted: 5/16/25 at 11:20am

carolinaguy said: "I loved the variety in this score at the Longacre, and I'm enjoying it even more listening to Part 1 of the cast recording. "Something from Nothing" is a wonderfully vibey song with a great hook. The only thing that bothers me about any of it is that Natalie Wood died after the events depicted in "Up to the Stars," but other than that anachronism it's wonderful.

It would surely get my vote for score, while I would still vote MHE for Best Musical.
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I think this is exactly the way it's going to go, actually. Folks seem to be really underestimating Dead Outlaw's chances at winning score.

Owen22
#92DEAD OUTLAW Reviews
Posted: 5/20/25 at 9:34am

I do love there is now a showtune called "I Killed a Man in Maine". 
https://youtu.be/ZzuKb5wKIZg?si=emoJOq7xiS6J7TUy

Updated On: 5/20/25 at 09:34 AM

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Melissa25
#93DEAD OUTLAW Reviews
Posted: 5/20/25 at 10:03am

I thought we were going to get decapitated with that cymbal that rolled right towards us during I Killed a Man in Maine. Durand was on fire. I was afraid for him when he jumped up on that desk. 

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broadway86
#94DEAD OUTLAW Reviews
Posted: 5/20/25 at 12:18pm

Owen22 said: "I do love there is now a showtune called "I Killed a Man in Maine".
https://youtu.be/ZzuKb5wKIZg?si=emoJOq7xiS6J7TUy
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This song gave me so much life in the theater. I was about to start a mosh pit. cheeky


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