First commissioned in 2008, the 'Untitled Unauthorized' musical by Joe Iconis tells the story of the famously anarchic journalist
about Hunter S. Thompson, the anarchic gonzo journalist with the white bucket hat, tinted glasses and dangling cigarette holder? The rebel reporter who was obsessed with booze, drugs and guns? He who after his death had his cremated ashes shot out of a cannon?
Joe Iconis is the composer, lyricist and co-book writer of “The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical,” making its world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse in September 2023. “It felt like a perfect storm of things I was interested in,” remembered Ashley, who is directing the musical. “I’d always been a Hunter fan. I loved his writing, how interested he was in the outcasts and the misfits. He’s all the way counterculture.”
Due to a variety of factors — including Iconis’ many other projects and the COVID-19 pandemic interruption of theater — the mounting of the musical comes more than 15 years after that conversation between Iconis and Ashley. It was workshopped at the Playhouse last year in anticipation of this year’s staging.
The musical draws inspiration from Thompson’s best known and, in some circles, most notorious gonzo journalism works, including “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” and the subsequent “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail.” Thompson’s designated archenemy, Richard Nixon, is a character in the show. There has, of course, been a feature film about Hunter S. Thompson, “Where the Buffalo Roam” starring Bill Murray in 1980. An adaptation of Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” starring Johnny Depp followed in 1998. Depp returned to play another character in the film version of Thompson’s “The Rum Diary” in 2011.
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