This deliciously sardonic little tuner is about a real-life outlaw, a man vividly named Elmer McCurdy, shot dead by a sheriff’s posse but never buried.

Dead Outlaw” is a deliciously sardonic little tuner from the cheerfully nihilistic, ever anti-sentimental, ever macabre team of David Yazbek (music, here alongside Erik Della Penna), Itamar Moses

Frankly, that’s where this wild ‘n’ crazy roller-coaster ride of a musical goes wonderfully off the tracks. “Dead Outlaw” had its world premiere last season Off Broadway, and promptly won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle award for best musical.