{"id":8624,"date":"2017-01-29T11:48:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T11:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8624"},"modified":"2017-01-29T11:48:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T11:48:07","slug":"lizzie-borden-is-now-a-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8624","title":{"rendered":"Lizzie Borden is now a musical!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One morning in 1892,\u00a0in Fall River, Massachusetts, a prominent businessman and his wife were axed to death in their home. The prime suspect was their daughter Lizzie.<\/p>\n<p>Lizzie\u00a0Borden&#8217;s name passed into\u00a0American legend as the story of her\u00a0trial for the murder became a media sensation. There was even a rhyme about the case.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1985\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lizziethemusical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/rhyme2.png\" alt=\"rhyme2\" width=\"805\" height=\"194\" \/><b><\/b><i><\/i><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>The rhyme suggests she was guilty but, in fact, Lizzie was tried and acquitted for axe murders of her father and stepmother. No one else was charged with the murder of Andrew and Abby Borden.\u00a0Speculation about the crimes continues more than 100 years after the axe murder.<\/p>\n<p>After the trial,\u00a0Lizzie began using the name Lizbeth A. Borden and moved to\u00a0a large, modern house the hill neighborhood of Fall River. Despite the acquittal, Lizbeth was ostracized by Fall River society. She died in 1927 and is buried in the family plot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8680\" src=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/lizziebordenhouse1.jpg\" alt=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/3f\/LizzieBordenhouse.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">Lizzie\u00a0the musical<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The story has been made into a stage musical by Tim Maner, Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer and Alan Stevens Hewitt.\u00a0Fronted by four women and a\u00a0 six-piece rock band, LIZZIE is full of rage, sex, betrayal, and bloody murder.<\/p>\n<p>The UK premiere of this rock musical LIZZIE starts at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenwichtheatre.org.uk\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=2037:lizzie&amp;catid=7:playingnow&amp;Itemid=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greenwich Theatre<\/a>, presented by Fredericia Teater in association with Aria Entertainment. The show runs from Wednesday \u00a022 February until Sunday 12 March 2017.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-GllFdVmOTk]<\/p>\n<p>video courtesy of YouTube &#8211; https:\/\/youtu.be\/-GllFdVmOTk<\/p>\n<p>copyright retained by video producer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One morning in 1892,\u00a0in Fall River, Massachusetts, a prominent businessman and his wife were axed to death in their home. The prime suspect was their daughter Lizzie. Lizzie\u00a0Borden&#8217;s name passed into\u00a0American legend as the story of her\u00a0trial for the murder became a media sensation. There was even a rhyme about the case. The rhyme suggests &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8624\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lizzie Borden is now a musical!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,482,514],"tags":[1305,452,1306,1307],"class_list":["post-8624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-murder-mystery","category-murder-mystery-theatre","category-people","tag-axe-murder","tag-greenwich","tag-lizzie-borden","tag-lizzie-the-musical"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lizzie Borden is now a musical! - City Adventurers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8624\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lizzie Borden is now a musical! - City Adventurers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"One morning in 1892,\u00a0in Fall River, Massachusetts, a prominent businessman and his wife were axed to death in their home. 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