Gone, Bambi, Gone!

Gordon Gano, the Founder of The Violent Femmes, Has Written "Run, Bambi, Run," His First Musical, With Bookwriter Eric Simonson. It Is Now Playing at Milwaukee Rep.

A scene from Run, Bambi, Run at Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Photo: Michael Brosilow.

If you lived in Milwaukee in the early 1980s, you couldn’t escape two very big, very different news stories. The first was about the sensational, headline-grabbing trial of Laurencia “Bambi” Bambenek, a former Milwaukee cop and Playboy bunny who was accused of murderin…