Real ‘Dead Outlaw’ Elmer McCurdy Finds Fame As Broadway Musical Fans Leave Tributes At Gravesite

Real ‘Dead Outlaw’ Elmer McCurdy Finds Fame As Broadway Musical Fans Leave Tributes At Gravesite

A cemetery in Guthrie, Oklahoma, is seeing an unusual increase in foot traffic lately, ever since real-life dead outlaw Elmer McCurdy has become Broadway’s most famous corpse. McCurdy’s bizarre tale is the subject of the Tony-nominated musical Dead Outlaw. The newly minted celebrity died in a shoot-out with an Oklahoma sheriff’s posse after robbing a train in 1911. He was 31, and so estranged from whatever loved ones he had that his thoroughly…

See Dead Outlaw Make 'Something From Nothing' and 'Normal' on Today

The Best Musical Tony nominee stopped by the morning show to give its first television performance.

'Killed a Man in Maine' From DEAD OUTLAW on Broadway

Seven-time Tony Award-nominated new musical Dead Outlaw released a never-before-seen video of leading man, Tony Award nominee Andrew Durand, performing “Killed a Man in Maine.” Watch the video here! With a book by Itamar Moses, music and lyrics from David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna, and direction by David Cromer, Dead Outlaw is nominated for 7 Tony Awards and is currently playing on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre. The show stars Andrew Durand…

Dead Outlaw's Jeb Brown on a Broadway Career Spanning 50 Years, His First Tony Nomination and Accepting Beyoncé's Immortality

Among the many first-time 2025 Tony nominees, only Jeb Brown can boast of having made his Broadway debut more than 50 years ago. The Dead Outlaw star began his theatrical career at age 10 as one of the “no-neck monsters” in a celebrated 1974 revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, starring Elizabeth Ashley. In the decades since, the Yale graduate has appeared in Broadway musicals with short runs (Bring Back Birdie, Ring of Fire), long runs (Beautiful,…

5 minutes with a Tony nominee: ‘Dead Outlaw’’s Julia Knitel

The actor earned her first Tony Award nomination for playing three pivotal characters in the new musical.