Frankie ends up being executed for her crime. In a few, Johnny (or Allen, or Albert) survives the shooting. Francis Baker moved away from St. Louis in 1901 to escape the notoriety the song ...

Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune ... radio after he’s made a special request to hear “the most beautiful music ever written.” This revival feels a bit glammed up compared to the ...

Unlike their namesakes in the song that inspires the title of the play, Frankie doesn’t kill Johnny; he kills her-with faith, hope and love. Will it last? Who knows? The next day is Sunday ...

It’s telling that Cash’s version of her song makes that danger sound like ... Cash’s updating of the folk ballad “Frankie and Johnny” hints at part of what June found dangerous about ...

Terrence McNally's well-regarded 1987 play, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, flips the script on the song a bit, retaining the deep passion of its characters while taking its story in a ...

“Frankie and Johnny” had its Off Broadway premiere in ... That history, recounted in song, is now on Broadway. No Power? No Problem: The “Sunset Boulevard” star Nicole Scherzinger briefly ...

Frankie and Johnny are two almost strangers in the night. Terrence McNally's celebrated 1987 play begins with a few bleats of passion between a short-order cook with scarred hands and a waitress ...

Lunar light -- and a little night music, too -- finds its way through ... when the final bricks of their emotional walls come down as Frankie and Johnny share their secrets and allow the chance ...