Like the original 1983 film, so gory that it was rated NC-17, the musical is about five hormonal college students borrowing a cabin in the woods for a short vacation. They discover a 13th-century book of the dead, accidentally play an audiotape of demon-summoning words and are soon being possessed, one at a time, by evil forces.
This requires Ash (Ryan Ward, in the Bruce Campbell role) to fight back with a nearby chain saw. He even has to decapitate his girlfriend, Linda (Jennifer Byrne), with whom he has just sung the romantic duet “Housewares Employee.”
The show, which basks in the self-referential, throws in characters and events from “Evil Dead II” (1987) and dismisses the second sequel (“Army of Darkness,” 1992), which sent Ash time-traveling to the Middle Ages, with a passing remark.
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Evil Dead: The Musical
Just when you thought you had seen it all...
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You've heard of the Monty Python's Holy Grail musical right?
But despite the black knight in the movie, does Spamalot have a 3-row "splash zone" where attendees are warned that they will get wet during the performance?
Evidently Ash scatters theatrical blood like Shamu scatters pool water.
sounds like a winner, let's go....
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