Read Patrick Dunn’s take on Detroit Public Theatre’s “Murder Ballad” for Detroit News
Detroit Public Theatre co-founder Courtney Burkett loves musicals, but she has no interest in rehashing the hackneyed classics of the genre.
“We’re not the kind of company that’s going to be doing ‘My Fair Lady’ or ‘Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,’ ” Burkett says flatly.
So for the fledgling DPT’s first full-blown musical and second-season opening show, Burkett and her team went about as far in the opposite direction as one could imagine. “Murder Ballad,” directed by Burkett and running through Oct. 23 at Allesee Hall, is a thoroughly contemporary rock musical with strictly adult content.