Evil Dead: The Musical
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Hey everyone,
As you can tell from what’s written as the title of this post, I am part of a new show! It will be going up the weekend after Halloween, on Friday and Saturday the 7th and 8th of November. It will be a midnight run, running from 11PM to 1AM on both nights. This is both to show that it is on par with Rocky Horror Picture Show in terms of campy Halloween value, and to make sure that people can see Evil Dead after seeing Ithaca College’s mainstage production of Andrew Lippa’s Wild Party, and Triple Threat Theatre’s production of Bare.
What is written above, however, will be the last time that I refer to the title of said show in this post, because a certain rights granting company would not be happy with me to discover that we were putting on this show. Therefore I will take the minimal list in saying it once, and not say it again. I will say, however, that this musical is going to be hilarious, offensive, raunchy, and filled with as much cheesy blood and gore as we can muster. I hope you all will come and see it, but to make everyone’s life easier, please e-mail me with which night you would like to come, and I will see if there is space…unfortunately the space we’re using has very limited seating.
This show is not for everyone, because it has no deep or hidden meaning, and no redeeming value to it - unless you’re like me and enjoy violence, vulgarity, musical theatre, zombies, and absurd nonsensical plots. With song titles such as:
- Look Who’s Evil Now
- What The Fuck Was That?
- I’m Not a Killer
- Bit Part Demon
- All The Men In My Life Keep Getting Killed By Candarian Demons
- Do The Necronomicon
AND - Blew That Bitch Away
…this show is sure to be a surefire hit.
The show also features great…awe-inspiring lyrics such as:
I heard you sucker’s mocking me and calling me a prude. Let’s see if you’re still laughing when I rip out your fallopian tubes. I’ll twist your funbags, and beat your brown-eye blue. Then I’ll smash your sack and make a testicle fondue. Just try and fuck with me, I’ll show you where your grave is. If being evil’s cool consider me Miles Davis.
With all this in mind, what’s not to love? In all honesty I place those lyrics up to warn you all, this show is not for the faint of heart…it’s very much hilarity based on shock value and we’re not treating it any other way…so do not come if you are offended by swearing or vulgarity of any kind…because the odds are it’s a part of our show.
Today (Saturday October 25th) we created the latex pieces which will distinguish the characters from when they are themselves vs. when they turn into zombies. So I leave you with a slideshow of this wonderful afternoon of makeup work. Thank you to Natalie Scott (Ithaca ‘11) for being our make-up designer, you’ll see how good she is in the following pictures.
Ciao,
~Ned Donovan
