NEW YORK (AP) — Omar, the shotgun-toting stick-up man of “The Wire,” is finally getting his chance to belt out a solo.

“The Wire: The Musical” debuted Tuesday as a Web video for the site Funny Or Die. The cast of the HBO drama reprises their roles in a mock song-and-dance adaptation of the famously gritty series about urban life and the drug war.

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