Legs Diamond

About the show

Legs Diamond is a musical with a book by Harvey Fierstein and Charles Suppon based on the Warner Brothers film The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960), with a screenplay by Joseph Landon. The music and lyrics are by Peter Allen, who starred as the title character in the Broadway production. The "Almost Totally Fictitious Musical Hystery" [sic] of Legs Diamond follows the travails of its title character, a Depression-era mobster who wants to break into show business.