Posted on 26 October 2009 by Josh Browning
Friday night Jason, his wife Mylie, my wife Jenny Lou, and Myself went to see the production of Evil Dead the Musical at the Generic Theater. We arrived to find that the theater was nearly at capacity, which I thought was amazing, considering that this was the second week of the show and it was still selling out. We were lucky enough to find some seats in the back, away from the splatter zone. As we sat in anticipation for the show to begin the room filled the rest of the way and the performance was ready to begin.
Oderus Urungus, of the band Gwar was the star of the opening video for the show, asking everyone to “turn off your motherfucking cell phones”. He also did the introduction to the performance, reading the opening lines from the film Evil Dead 2 explaining the Necronomicon. From that point we get into the performance, which starts with 4 college kids in a car driving to a cabin in the woods. Que the first musical number comedic-ally called “Cabin in the Woods”.
The rest of the show goes off with out a hitch, from trees raping a girl, to Ash cutting of his hand with a chainsaw, and decapitating his girlfriend, with musical numbers like “What the Fuck Was That?”, “Bit Part Demon”, “Good Old Reliable Jake” (which was a show stealer!) and “All the Men In My Life Keep Getting Killed By Candarian Demons”. The cast was great in every aspect. Travis Malone played “Ash” and pulled it off very well, Michelle Jenkins played Ash’s sister “Cheryl” who plays the part of a demon to a T. But one of the most memorable performances was from Garney Johnson in the part of the smelly redneck “Jake” I found myself laughing at nearly everything he said or did the entire performance.
We here at Zombie Popcorn had a GREAT time at Evil Dead the Musical, and would suggest going to see it while you still can. I for one will be seeing it again, maybe even sitting in the splatter zone next time! Here are the date for anyone considering going to see it.
October 16 – November 8, 2009
Friday and Saturday at 8:00pm
Sunday at 2:30pm
Special Showing: Two performances on Halloween Night (October 31, 2009) at 8:00pm and 11:00pm. Just Added! Thursday, October 29, 2009 and Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 8:00pm
Below I have posted a picture of Jason and I with the cast.
Please be sure to check out Zombie Popcorn Radio, and listen to the interview we did with the writer of Evil Deal the Musical Mr.George Reinblatt, and if you can’t catch the live show please subscribe to the pod cast on iTunes.
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