Once they made a musical of the life of Jesus Christ, that pretty much ended the discussion about what could be a proper subject for a singing, dancing stage show.
But even so, a musical about Lee Harvey Oswald? I have a bad feeling about this. Casting director Ally Beans says Oswald, a 27-song show which is to debut on May 3 in Big D, and has Broadway ambitions, “is the story of Lee Harvey Oswald, but two actors portray him. We have the man who did it and the man who did not, which sort of buys into the unknown, some of the conspiracy theories, some of the gray areas of the story as we know it.”
Oh my. Are we really going to go back to batspit-crazy theories about how a right-wing cabal involving the CIA might have killed JFK?
Oswald is told through the eyes of the widow, Marina Oswald, who at 77 apparently still lives in the Dallas area though she is today known as Marina Porter. The show’s creators are composer Josh Sassanella and book writer Tony LePage.