The audience at the recent Broadway premiere of
"Hedwig and the Angry Inch" found playbills beneath their seats for a completely different production, "Hurt Locker: The Musical."
However, there is no musical stage version of
The Hurt Locker (nor any stage version of it at all). The fake musical was the creation of Hedwig's producers. The
NY Daily News explains:
"Hedwig" is being performed at the Belasco Theatre — and to maintain the illusion of a late-night one-off show by an East-German transgender pop-rocker — producers littered the floor with Playbills from a show that opened and closed on the same night. Enter "Hurt Locker" Fauxbills.
Actually,
Hurt Locker doesn't sound that implausible as a musical, given some of the
unlikely musicals that actually have been produced, such as Strunk & White's
Elements of Style (the musical), or
Thalidomide (the musical).
Another fake musical that I've recorded here on the site was
Mars Attacks: The Musical, which was an April Fool's Day hoax back in 2012.
Below are some of the pages from the playbill created for the Hurt Locker musical. I like the titles of the musical numbers, such as "Your Body is The Bomb (Literally)". Also worthy of note is the fake ad for a bar of gold that appeared at the end of the playbill. The full playbill can be seen at the
Playbill Vault.
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