Dead Outlaw

Dead Outlaw received 9 Award Nominations for the 2024-25 Broadway Season!

7 Tony Award Nominations

1.   Best Musical

2.   Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical – Andrew Durand

3.   Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical – Julia Knitel

4.   Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical – Jeb Brown

5.   Best Book of a Musical – Itamar Moses

6.   Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre – David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna

7.   Best Direction of a Musical – David Cromer

2 Drama League Award Nominations

1.   Outstanding Production of a Musical

2.   Distinguished Performance Award – Andrew Durand

As an Off-Broadway production in 2024, Dead Outlaw won several awards, including the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Musical, and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical. The show also won the Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best New Musical. 

DEAD OUTLAW is the darkly hilarious and wildly inventive musical about the bizarre true story of outlaw-turned-corpse-turned-celebrity Elmer McCurdy. As Elmer’s body finds even more outlandish adventures in death than it could have ever hoped for in life, the show explores fame, failure, and the meaning—or, utter meaninglessness—of legacy. Dying is no reason to stop living life to its fullest.

After a successful off-Broadway run, Dead Outlaw was the most award-winning musical in 2024. A New York Times Critics’ Pick, Laura Collins-Hughes called it “a compact, deliciously deadpan yarn.”

Dead Outlaw has a book by the playwright Itamar Moses, songs by David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna, and is directed by David Cromer. Moses, Yazbek and Cromer all won Tony Awards for their previous collaboration, The Band’s Visit, which won 10 Tony Awards including Best New Musical in 2018.

Performances at Broadway’s Longacre Theatre, 220 W 48th St., NYC. Tickets are on sale now.

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