Thursday, November 02, 2006

Greatest. Musical. Ever.

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that this may, in fact, represent the pinnacle of mankind's cultural achievement:
Some people might think that you’d need to have seen at least one of Sam Raimi’s “Evil Dead” movies to appreciate this show. But not necessarily. Horror comedy is, to say the least, a highly accessible genre, even for those who don’t recognize and cheer the signature lines taken from the movies.

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Like the original 1983 film, so gory that it was rated NC-17, the musical is about five hormonal college students borrowing a cabin in the woods for a short vacation. They discover a 13th-century book of the dead, accidentally play an audiotape of demon-summoning words and are soon being possessed, one at a time, by evil forces.

This requires Ash (Ryan Ward, in the Bruce Campbell role) to fight back with a nearby chain saw. He even has to decapitate his girlfriend, Linda (Jennifer Byrne), with whom he has just sung the romantic duet “Housewares Employee.”

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[The] most rousing number, “Do the Necronomicon,” cheerfully evokes “The Time Warp” from “Rocky Horror.” But the musical high point is Annie Knowby’s doo-wop ballad “All the Men in My Life Keep Getting Killed by Candarian Demons.”...

Truly devoted cultists may want to sit in the splatter section, the first three rows. Those seats are covered in clear plastic, and the audience may want to be too, although apparently half the fun is to wear a clean white T-shirt and spend the next two hours being sprayed with geysers of stage blood.
So much awesomeness, I can barely stand it.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mmm....culture-y.

spocko said...

Kaltu Virata Nicmsmsmmu! ...


I think I know what MY birthday present will be!

Evil Dead II is one of the most awesomest movies of all time.

Ash hitting himself on his head with plates! Dragging him self across the floor by his evil hand.
Evil hand flipping himself off!

And the Dialog, "Yo, she bitch, let's go."
This is my BOOM stick!

Thanks for this important news!
/seriously.

Eli said...

Hey, that was pretty much my reaction. I'm hoping I can see this when I'm in town after Christmas.