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...right, or is she just jealous of Will’s “first crush”? (Emma’s poor luck in love keeps getting more and more hilarious. The episode implies that she once had an “online flirtation” with Andrew Cunanan.) Meanwhile, Rachel’s prospects are limited to future YDN-reporter Jacob who just wants to see her “over-the-shoulder boulder holder.” Finn swoops in to put the moves on her again, but he's actually wooing her to come back...
...expectations. "I think this is a shocking morality play," an elderly woman said. Others saw the play as about the space people in live in, celebrity, life, death and the consequences of not being able to find oneself. At least one audience member had a personal connection to the Cunanan story and admitted to being anxious about seeing the production. "I lived through this story very personally, and when I heard about it a couple of years ago, I wondered how ridiculous it would be as a musical," she said. "I think you've done an incredible job." This version...
Rather than a strict retelling of Cunanan's life, the theater has opted to fictionalize the story for dramatic purposes. Cunanan is now Danny Reyes, played by Daniel Torres, but anyone even vaguely familiar with the actual events will recognize the plotline. Like Cunanan, Reyes is a gay Filipino-American who attended a ritzy, exclusive school and who knew how to charm his way into the right circles. Reyes is driven by his father to excel and for a while he does get a taste of a life that lies beyond his family's means. But after his La Jolla...
...Cunanan did, Reyes hides in plain sight in Miami, where he chats with a bartender and tries to pick up an older man in full view of his most-wanted poster. As the national media grows obsessed with the manhunt, Reyes begins phoning a tabloid reporter following his story, desperately trying to take control of his own image. "I'm a sympathetic subject," he tells her. "Brilliant. Good-looking. So you let me tell you how it's going down." The tabloid reporter ends the show with a monologue about writing a bestseller entitled Most Wanted which she describes...
Playwright Jessica Hagedorn and songwriter Mark Bennett insisted their story would neither glamorize Cunanan nor present a sanctimonious message about the demons that drove the troubled young man to murder. Rather, they have said, the play is a look at race, sexuality, culture, class and the nation's fascination with celebrity...