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‘Luigi: The Musical’ Sets June 15 New York Debut as Multi-Night Staged Reading Near Killing Site

The satirical show arrives as Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty and heads toward state and federal trials later this year.

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L: Image on the left shows the Luigi: The Musical poster. R: Image on the right shows Johnny Stein as Luigi in the musical.
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 18: Luigi Mangione attends a suppression of evidence hearing in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan Criminal Court on December 18, 2025 in New York City. Mangione's lawyers will argue to have the evidence thrown out because police officers allegedly did not read Mangione his Miranda rights and did not have a proper warrant when they searched his backpack at a Pennsylvania McDonald's last December. He is accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and faces state and federal murder charges. (Photo by Shannon Stapleton-Pool/Getty Images)

Overview

  • The New York iteration is slated for The Green Room 42 at YOTEL Times Square on June 15, with producers and reports indicating additional readings in June and a cast still to be announced.
  • A spokesperson and the show’s director say the first performance sold out quickly and that more dates have been added in response to demand.
  • Billed as a prison-set satire, the piece features portrayals of Sam Bankman-Fried and Sean “Diddy” Combs as fellow Metropolitan Detention Center inmates and asserts it interrogates, rather than glorifies, violence.
  • The production premiered in San Francisco in 2025 and was reported to have sold out its run there.
  • Mangione faces 11 counts in the state case, including first-degree murder "in furtherance of an act of terrorism," and separate federal charges, with a state trial scheduled for June and a federal trial set for September.