Overview

A licensed musical based on an American original. The original title is "Thrill Me" - The Leopold & Loeb story, and according to the foreign language spelling rules, "Thrill Me" is correct. This is a musical in which the original author, Stephen Dolginoff, wrote the script, lyrics, and music. It was based on the Leopold-Loeb incident that actually occurred in Chicago in 1924. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, the so-called “thrill killers” who murdered a young boy in 1924 in order to commit “the perfect crime.” The story is told in flashbacks, beginning with a 1958 parole hearing.