Ed Gien, The Musical

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‘Ed Gein, The Musical’ an offbeat approach to story of La Crosse-born killer

By GERI PARLIN gparlin@larossetribune.com | Posted: Saturday, September 3, 2011 12:00 am | (24) Comments

It’s a story so horrible, it just had to be set to music. La Crosse’s very own mass murderer is being remembered in a musical written by and starring University of Wisconsin-La Crosse graduate Dan Davies.

And according to Davies, to know about Ed Gein is to want to, well, memorialize him in a musical that treads the line between whimsy and poor taste and manages to do it with a song in its heart.

“Ed Gein, The Musical” is a 92-minute musical/comedy/horror movie filmed in Wisconsin and based on the notorious killer and grave robber from Plainfield, Wis. Though he conducted his gory crime spree while living in Plainfield, Gein was born in La Crosse.

Gein was arrested in 1957, and his macabre uses for the dead prompted international coverage. He has been the subject of numerous books and films including, “Psycho,” “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Silence of The Lambs.”

I remember Ed Gein from when I was a kid. Digging up women's bodies, lampshades made from their skin, etc. A true monster.

I'll pass on this piece of garbage.

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It’s a story so horrible, it just had to be set to music.

Yes on the first part, and "On what planet/In what alternate reality is that a good idea?" on the second.

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