A ghoulish musical comedy immortalizing the alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO gunman, Luigi Mangione, will premiere in New York City — the real-life setting of the shocking assassination — this summer.
“Luigi: The Musical” will take the stage at The Green Room 42 in Midtown West on June 15 — a mere 20-minute subway ride from where Mangione allegedly gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside of a Hilton Hotel in December 2024.
The twisted “satirical” comedy provides a “bold, campy and unafraid” take on the accused assassin’s life in lockdown while on trial for the murder of the dad of two.
It’s marketed as “a tale of love, murder, and hashbrowns,” a reference to Mangione scarfing down the McDonald’s menu item before his arrest in Pennsylvania.
The show — which claims to “interrogate” rather than “glorify” violence — originally premiered in San Francisco in 2025 to sold-out crowds.
The cast of the Big Apple premiere has not yet been announced. Representatives for “Luigi: The Musical” did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
“Luigi” is the brainchild of songwriter Arielle Johnson and director Nova Bradford, who said the idea came from an idea “scribbled on a napkin at the SF Eagle.”
“Luigi: the Musical uses comedy to bring deeper questions to the surface,” Bradford said in a statement on the musical’s website.
“Why did this case garner the reaction that it did? And what happens when people stop trusting their institutions?” Bradford added.
The musical features convicted crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried and disgraced hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs as Mangione’s wacky jailhouse companions at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center.
The trio navigates “friendship, justice, and the absurdity of viral fame” through a set of musical numbers — including “The Cheapest Room in Brooklyn” and the track “Bay Area Baby” sung by Bankman-Fried.
“Luigi: the Musical doesn’t glorify violence, it interrogates it. Beneath the absurdity and punchlines lies a serious critique of how violence is packaged, sold, and consumed in American media,” said a description for the show.
“The show takes aim at a culture where brutality is both entertainment and spectacle, inviting audiences to laugh while also asking why we’re so quick to tune in when someone gets hurt.”
In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Bradford sought to head off obvious criticism about mining such macabre subject matter for a tongue-in-cheek musical.
“We’re not valorizing any of these characters, and we’re also not trivializing any of their actions or alleged actions,” she said.
Mangione faces life in prison at his upcoming murder trial in state court set for June if convicted of fatally shooting Thompson in a targeted hit on a Midtown sidewalk.
He will still face life in prison at his separate federal trial — slated to start in September — after prosecutors announced they will not appeal a judge’s decision to take the death penalty off the table for the 27-year-old accused killer.
Mangione won’t technically be charged with murder in the federal case, and will instead face a charge of “stalking” Thompson, leading to the father-of-two’s death.
The Maryland native has pleaded not guilty to Thompson’s killing.
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