Luigi Mangione turned an in a single day sensation for too many progressives.
He didn’t win an election or embarrass a GOP senator.
Mangione allegedly shot and killed a healthcare CEO in chilly blood. That’s all he wanted to turn out to be a Twenty first-century folks hero. That, and killer abs.
America has formally jumped the shark. Unhappy.
San Francisco’s ‘Luigi: the Musical’ shot me via the center https://t.co/sbMVqjqm4Y
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Now, a San Francisco-based play is increasing on Mangione’s legend, and native patrons can’t get sufficient of it. It’s known as, what else, “Luigi: The Musical.” SF Gate has the main points.
Directed by Nova Bradford, the manufacturing is ready within the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn, the place rapper Sean Combs (Janée Lucas), fallen crypto tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried (André Margatini), and the web’s favourite homicide suspect Luigi Mangione (Jonny Stein) have been all held this yr — on the identical time. The musical has now prolonged its run to 10 exhibits after fixed sellouts. On the present I noticed, dozens of individuals stood towards the partitions after each seat had been stuffed.
It’s a success!
The critic admits the present has a decidedly pro-Mangione bent however doesn’t absolutely endorse violence. Phew.
The manufacturing doesn’t have all of the solutions, and that’s OK — the ethical ambiguity is a part of the enjoyable.
Sure, it’s not precisely clear if we must always root for somebody who allegedly killed a father and husband as a result of he’s a really small cog in an admittedly damaged well being care system.
This isn’t the one time popular culture progressives praised Mangione. The host of “Jimmy Kimmel Reside!” shared how some present staffers swooned over the alleged killer shortly after his arrest. “The Every day Present” viewers additionally expressed sympathy for Mangione, surprising even the present’s far-Left host on the time.
Comic Invoice Burr has repeatedly chanted “Free Luigi,” though it’s unclear if it’s merely fun line or has an even bigger which means. Burr has straddled the road between the Proper and Left along with his comedy through the years. In current months, he’s been actively courting progressives.