NEWS: Grab Your Chainsaw and Sing: Evil Dead Goes Musical

CULTURE: Grab Your Chainsaw and Sing: Evil Dead Goes Musical

In the time honored traditon of Chicago, Rent and Les Miserables, comes a new musical classic: EVIL DEAD.

Evil Dead: The Musical? Yes, that's right.

The famed chainsaw carrying hero of the campy, 1981 film by Sam Raimi has been resurrected by Hinton Battle and Christopher Bond in New York City. We once again find ourselves following Ash on his quest to destroy bloodthirsty demons, all set to musical numbers, choruses and dance routines.

The show plays at New York's New World Stages and runs through February 24.

This is either going to be brilliant or really really horrible.

a friend of mine (and ex member) went and seen it and loved it.
Not to mention he was in the splash zone....so got covered in blood.

...or both!

sounds great. i love evil dead.

'Groovey' - I think not! - what a load of utter shit.

Its like a really bad Beetlejuice show I saw at disneyland when I was a kid.

Evil will befall them for such blasphemy...

>K<

I saw this before it officially opened. I was in the splatter zone. It was fan-fucking-tastic.

I so want Campbell to dance and sing.

Universal Studios.

Whoa.
This is the gayest thing I've ever seen.

Word on the street has it that this musical tries to force a Rocky Horror-esque participation from the audience, thus defeating the purpose of the audience being willing to do so in the first place. I hear it makes the whole experience a bit disingenuine and spoils the fun.

That said, it could simply be a snotty review.

Okay, I can't even sit through that whole Youtube clip. That's....so bad. Really, really bad. *sighs*

blasphemy.

That's pretty much what you get in his commercial for Old Spice. Not dancing and singing in the usual style, but of the ineffable Bruce variety. And a really long painting.

I saw this when it was still in previews in NYC (and at a discount too thanks to a sweet job)

I can honestly say i've never had a better time in the city.

This show has been around for years. Several of my friends saw it in Toronto a few years back when it was still playing small clubs, and said it was fucking great. If you liked the movies, you'll love the musical. Those of you close enough to attend, enjoy. Luck bastards.

The very Idea of this makes my head hurt. Alot. You just can't do Ash without Bruce Friggin Campbell.. I still hope it kills though, Hail to the King Baby!!!

I really wonder if Bruce Campbell will be involved with it...I mean there is no Evil Dead without him.

Yeah I agreed, this is either really awesome...or a terrible terrible idea..

On the point of terrible ideas...they stole mine!
Not evil dead, the musical..but rather a zombie musical...

My brother, then later me were working on a zombie straight edge hard-core musical called "True Past Dead"...except fro the writing being a bit lacking in parts...it is an amazing concept.

Also it would have a grand zombies fighting robots scene at the end...and that is going to be the best ending to a musical ever!

I have tickets for this Wednesday in the splatter zone. I'm in NJ until the 22nd from Chi-Town, and this is one of the only good things about being here.

Can't fucking wait.

well its a musical what were u expecting

for the record this was playing in canada for a few years before it came to the states

(my cousins the phantom of the opera on BW so i occationaly get info like that)

Hasn't this been going on for a few years? I've been wanting to see this, but those jerks never did any shows HERE, I think for a brief time they had gigs outside of New York. Or maybe I'm dumb.

Regardless, TOUR NOW YOU BASTARDS

Geeze

As a Bruce Campbell fan and a Raimi fan I find this is indeed blasphemy. They going to have a "swallow your soul" or "this is my boomstick!" song that sounds like an ABBA track?

::vomit::