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[–] exu@feditown.com 45 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What the fuck. This is so wild

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought so too at first, but then got to this part and learned it's not the first time:

Luigi Mangione is getting the Roxie Hart treatment.

The accused murderer will be the subject of a new musical set to premiere next month in San Francisco, titled Luigi: The Musical.

Also appearing as characters in the musical will be two of Mangione’s fellow inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center - Sean "Diddy" Combs and Sam Bankman-Fried.

The play is already sold out for its entire run.

The premiere comes 99 years after Hart - a fictional character based on accused murderer Beulah Annan - made her Broadway debut in Chicago.

Annan, like Hart, was ultimately acquitted of murder.

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

Wait, was that supposed to make this less wild?

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

"Quick! I need a piano and all the rhymes for Luigi Mangione!"

-Arielle Johnson

[–] HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There’s gonna be a lot of references to the evidence against him being bologna, an officer named Mahoney, having his hair cut in prison by a jabroney, his MAGA uncle Tony, …anything else?

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Um...

"He's confined all alone, he

's been starved til he's bony,

And Miranda is phony

Cuz the DA's a crony

(Hope this song wins a Tony!)"

Editing to add, I discovered there's already an old Louis Prima song "Luigi" about a numbers runner whose downfall is a corrupt cop. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GAcOxvwZFYA

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Was Chuck unavailable?

[–] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

Oooh boy! I can't wait to talk about this on r/theatre!

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] plant_based_monero@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

Tbh a few years ago this would be crazy, but I guess the line between whats nottheonion and what it is is moving everyday

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works -2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Nothing in here is nottheonion anymore. It's just another politics community.

[–] abobla@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I thought it was kinda crazy that this story is becoming a musical, didn't intend to be political.

[–] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 2 points 2 months ago

Dude the weather is political, bathrooms are political, you all don't leave us much to work with.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This doesn't seem fun at all :(

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 37 points 2 months ago (2 children)

On the contrary, it's gonna be fun seeing bootlickers melt down.

[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

I do enjoy that. It’s so fucking easy to do

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

That's a good point

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Shame its about after his arrest. Would have been cool to see the backstory of tragedy that lead him to commit such a heroic act.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

He didn’t shoot anybody, he was drinking beers and playing Madden with me that day. The only shots he fired were touchdown passes.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 2 months ago

Just an alleged hero? Hm

[–] TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He had it comin'

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Wait what it was someone's job to tell me I forgot to get tickets

[–] Bot@sub.community 2 points 2 months ago

As long as the actor is hot as fxxk as Luigi, I’m all in :)

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone -4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's great but can we not give paedophiles the light of day.. Crypto scammers, CEO killers sure, but not criminals.

[–] zabby@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I didn't know Diddy was a cellmate of Luigi until today. This is WILD!

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

wait, what??

i looked online, it seems that they are only sharing, not necessarily together

[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Aahhh. I see now. It read like they were calling the creator or Luigi a paedophile.

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

I forgot most people wouldn't read the article