Plus, the stage gets so slick, we're never sure how the choreography will play out. Is it hard to perform when you're wet with fake blood? If the audience hasn't figured it out by then, I don't know what to do for them."
EVIL DEAD THE MUSICAL MOVIE
A parodic musical of the movie Evil Dead, complete with hit songs such as. Evil Dead The Musical takes all the elements of the cult classic films. "We have signs indicating where the Splatter Zone is, and we have a prerecorded announcement just before curtain that warns about the blood. And the fact that the first six rows are covered in plastic and duct tape is a pretty good giveaway. Read 2 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Music by Frank Cipolla, Christopher Bond, Melissa Morris and George Reinblatt. The amount of blood in the show is way over the top. It just becomes ridiculous and funny - far more funny than disturbing." And we can’t wait until we can perform for you again. Since then, there have been over 500 productions all across the globe. Evil Dead The Musical had its first ever performance. Of course, we also try to get a lot of that onto the audience in the first six rows, the designated Splatter Zone." 17 years ago today, at a tiny bar in downtown Toronto.
A couple of performers get drenched to the bone. 'Evil Dead The Musical' takes all the elements of the cult classic films The Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, and Army of Darkness and combines them for one of the craziest, funniest, and bloodiest theatrical experiences of all time. "We use a number of five-gallon buckets of stage blood, and go through them all. Just how much blood is involved in the production? And the more seasons I sing my song, 'Good Old Reliable Jake,' the 'old' gets punched up more and more." You are required to wear a mask the entire time you are inside the. "I'm 50, but my character isn't age-specific.
I was in the theater when the films were first released in the 1980s." I'm considerably older than the rest of the cast, who play college kids. But Jake's reaction is, 'Are you kidding?'" In the horror genre, when other characters see something weird, they're intrigued and investigate. I've always thought of him as the character in the play who's easiest for audiences to relate to. EVIL DEAD THE MUSICAL is a comedy based on the cult classic film series. "Well, Jake is a big old, lovable coward. "I'm Jake, a guy a couple of the characters come across in Act I who lives out in the woods, and takes them to the cabin where terrible things have already started happening to the rest of the cast." It's much more enjoyable for the actors when the audience is into it." Halloween is on a Thursday this year, so we're hoping that will be a really great crowd. It's always a fun show to watch, but when the audience really gets into it, it's much more of a party. I tell people I keep showing up and they don’t tell me to leave. So you've actually done "Evil Dead: The Musical" 10 years running?ĭavid Schoen: "This is my indeed my 10th year.