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IN HELL WE DANCE OUR OWN SPECIAL WAY!
LET'S SHOW 'EM HOW WE DANCE WHILE OUR BODIES DECAY!
“How is that possible?” you ask. Easy
answer: great rock music, more foul
language than a Quentin Tarantino
movie, blood splattering across the stage
(and into the audience!), dismembered
limbs and heads, demon zombies
dancing and singing, and a super-sexy
zombie-killing hero who spends all his
time trying to “out-Bruce Campbell”
Bruce Campbell. And you don’t have to
and put them in your queue. See where
mixing comedy and horror all started.
It’s a tale as old as time (with absolutely
Five college students break into an
abandoned cabin deep in the woods,
looking for cheap fun and easy romance.
Instead, they awaken an ancient,
slumbering evil. One by one they are
possessed by demons and die in horrible
ways and return to life as zombies …
and occasionally burst into song.
a young, handsome Housewares
demons respond not only to chainsaws
and shotguns, but also zippy one-
liners and abs of steel. And just when
Ash thinks he cannot do it all alone, a
beautiful archeologist (the kind that only
exist in horror movies) arrives with the
information needed to send the demons
back to Hell. But in order to translate the
zombies’ powers to make nauseating
bad puns, turn the trees into perverted
date-rapists, bring road-kill back to unlife
and, of course … wait for it … perform
the Demon Dance of Death.
I have almost hurt myself laughing
during rehearsals, because the cast
we’ve assembled for the Arizona
Premiere of Evil Dead is so funny you
could laugh yourself to death! ‘Talented’
and ‘sexy’ doesn’t even begin to cover
the virtues of this powerhouse ensemble.
They sing their rotting faces off, chew
on your funny bone and dance ‘til they
drop! Evil Dead: The Musical is such
a good time you’ll want to come back
again and again just to sit in the “Splatter
covered in blood and gore! Wear white!
You don’t have to thank me.
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