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is one wacky story. And it's true,” said Kate Navin, Audible’s head of creative development, when she introduced the show at a special concert for the new musical. In fact, when talking about the show, she has to repeat, “remember, this is true,” several times.recounts the life and afterlife, of Elmer McCurdy. An outlaw whose attempts to rob banks and trains was one debacle after another, he lived from the late 1800s to the early 1900s.
Around 30 years ago Yazbek stumbled upon the how-can-this-be-real story of McCurdy and was intrigued from the get-go. “It wormed into my thoughts,” says the Tony-winning writer, composer and musician whose credits include. “I got deep into the story and went to the library researching it, looking up old clips on microfilm.
Yazbek enlisted his bandmate, Della Penna, to write songs about this mysterious man. And during gigs they included the songs. Eventually Moses, who had collaborated with Yazbek onjoined forces writing Dead Outlaw’s book, which spans 97 years, and the musical was born. “It's a rock musical about fame, greed, memory, death—all the things that make America great,” says Yazbek.
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