The title of the piece signals the show’s point of view, and that there will be support and community and body positivity aplenty. That’s exactly how it goes.

Unlike Janet Leigh in “Psycho,” Durand doesn’t leave the stage after McCurdy is murdered in 1911. Embalmed with arsenic, the corpse stands in an open coffin for all to see. No family member claims the body, but passers-by are so intrigued they begin to pay money to gawk.

"Dead Outlaw," a Broadway musical about a famous corpse discovered in Long Beach from the team behind the Tony-winning musical "The Band's Visit," opens on Broadway.