‘Dead Outlaw’ to close on Broadway

The seven-time Tony Award-nominated musical, based on a true story, transferred to the Longacre Theatre after a multi-award-winning Off-Broadway premiere.

Dead Outlaw has set its Broadway closing date at the Longacre Theatre, playing its final performance on June 29. At the time of closing, the musical will have played 87 total performances.

Nominated for seven 2025 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Dead Outlaw tells the true story of Elmer McCurdy, an American bandit who died at age 30 in a shootout. When no one claimed his corpse, it was preserved and displayed at carnivals, sideshows, wax museums, and amusement parks for the next six-plus decades.

“With a rousing score and ace cast, Dead Outlaw makes a strange-but-true slice of American history come to entertaining and energetic life,” New York Theatre Guide’s Dead Outlaw review reads. Learn more about the real history behind Dead Outlaw on Broadway.

The musical premiered at the Minetta Lane Theatre off Broadway in February 2024 under a commission from Audible Theater. That production won four Outstanding Musical awards and transferred to Broadway this April.

The entire Dead Outlaw Broadway cast reprises their roles from the Off-Broadway production, including 2025 Tony nominees Andrew Durand as Elmer McCurdy, Jeb Brown as Band Leader/Jarrett, and Julia Knitel as Helen/Maggie, plus Eddie Cooper as Coroner Johnson, Dashiell Eaves as Louis/Charles Patterson, Ken Marks as George, Trent Saunders as Andy Payne, and Thom Sesma as Coroner Noguchi.

Dead Outlaw reunites the Tony-winning creative team for the musical The Band’s Visit, including director David Cromer, book writer Itamar Moses, and songwriter David Yazbek, who co-wrote Dead Outlaw’s folk rock score with Erik Della Penna. All were nominated for Tonys for their work on Dead Outlaw.

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Photo credit: Dead Outlaw on Broadway. (Photos by Matthew Murphy)