Andrew Cunanan, The Musical, gets NEA grant
Gay serial killer Andrew Cunanan, whose killing spree ended with the death of fashion designer Gianni Versace, will be the subject of a musical theater piece to be developed next year for an eventual premiere at La Jolla Playhouse in California. Director Michael Greif, writer Jessica Hagedorn, and composer Mark Bennett will work on the project under the terms of a $35,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant. Cunanan, a scholar-athlete at The 's School in La Jolla in the mid-1980s, earned a reputation as a gay playboy before embarking on a murderous 1997 journey that had Hillcrest friends fearing for their lives and the FBI involved in a national manhunt.
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