Bright Comet's second production is a rock-inflected exploration of the crime that made Lizzie Borden infamous

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The cast of Bright Comet Theatre’s take on Lizzie, the rock musical about an infamous ax murder.

On an August morning in 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were killed on separate floors of their Fall River, Massachusetts, home. Each had received several violent hatchet blows to the head. Law enforcement immediately identified a handful of suspects and potential accomplices in the gory crime, but ultimately it was the wealthy married couple’s youngest daughter, Lizzie, who was tried — and later acquitted — for their murders.

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