Luigi Mangione, Sean “Diddy” Combs and Sam Bankman-Fried have found a new (fictional) life on the stage.
The new fringe production Luigi: The Musical, has been selling out shows in San Francisco, as it satirizes the real-life circumstances of Mangione, who is accused of killing the UnitedHealthcare CEO, being housed in the same Brooklyn jail as Diddy and Bankman-Fried, who were charged with sex trafficking and crypto fraud, respectively.
While it keeps extending its current run, the show’s creators are also aiming for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this August and exploring possible future productions in New York and Los Angeles.
It’s a comedy that was created by four stand-up comedians after seeing the headlines about the bunkmates, and pokes fun at actual details of the alleged crimes, such as Mangione’s stop for hashbrowns at McDonald’s, which led to his arrest and is told here through a ballad. There’s also a tap dance number featuring Diddy and Bankman-Fried and a love story between the two, among other surrealist elements. But it does also ponder the real-life public interest in these men.