Review: ‘Dead Outlaw’ Is An Exquisite Corpse and Killer Close to the Broadway Season

Dead Outlaw drives the final nail into the 2024-25 Broadway season, and I’ve never felt more alive. Elmer McCurdy’s funeral is the party of the year: wall-to-wall country and rock bangers, a dynamite cast, and a story too weird to be true. Elmer’s tale is uniquely American, a bizarre chronicle of greed, crime, and bad taste. You see, the Maine-born McCurdy rode the rails West to try his hand at train-robbing in Oklahoma, only to get himself shot in a hayloft by a posse at age 30. His embalmed corpse...