
The Capeman
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Rock & Roll Hall of Fame icon Paul Simon and Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott’s 'The Capeman' arrived at the Marquis Theatre in 1998 as one of the most textually complex, musically rich, and highly debated landmarks in contemporary Broadway history. Combining doo-wop, salsa, and traditional show tunes, the grand-scale musical biography chronicles the real life of Salvador Agron, a young Puerto Rican gang member in 1959 Manhattan who was convicted of a notorious double-homicide, tracing his long psychological evolution and literary redemption inside a federal prison. Directed by Mark Morris, the visually spectacular production starred Marc Anthony, Rubén Blades, and Ednita Nazario.

