Let me just start off by saying, there is some interesting pre-show chatter that goes on sometimes. "My cousin's uncle got him out of jail". "Yeah, and the prosecuting attorney was my aunt's brother-in-law". This was the kind of small talk going on before Max & Louie's opening night performance of Stephen Dolginoff's THRILL ME: THE LEOPOLD AND LOEB STORY. This musical is based on the true story of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, "thrill killers" who were sentenced to life plus 99 years for the murder of a young boy. With songs like "Nothing Like a Fire", "Way Too Far" and "Ransom Note", the dark nature of this "crime of the century" seems unlikely material for a musical, but as director Brooke Edwards points out in her notes, this show concentrates less on the crimes and more on the relationship between these two young well-to-do law students from Chicago.
