Friday, August 17, 2012

Evil Dead

Was just part of a very interesting show we did called "Evil Dead: the Musical". It has a cult following and is a spoof of B horror films which are not really my thing and neither is this kind of musical but it was fun. We splattered blood out into the audience. The cast had a great time and even did all the clean up EACH night. Don't think I ever saw a cast help out so much. It was part of our new "Edge" program which we are trying to make an annual thing where we can do some theatre that's not quite in the "norm". It seems as though if you don't do standard musicals like Wizard of Oz, Annie, and The Sound of Music the audience doesn't seem to want to come and watch. The same for other plays and comedies even. I understand you want to kinda know what you're seeing but we've always liked to try and bring new stuff to the audience. We've had great success too! Even with those dramas and such that we were told we shouldn't do. So for that I'd like to thank our audiences for taking the good with the bad with us. We will always strive to bring you the best musical, comedy, drama, off the wall play we can - it will be done well - whether you like it or not.

Next up is a new release from broadway called "Next to Normal". The title alone should clue you in that it's not "normal" but ..... The music is powerful and although I hadn't heard of it before apparently there are some kids (and I always use that term loosely meaning anywhere from 4 - 34 years old) who know it, love it and can already sing all the songs to it so it sounds like it should be a winner.

Then batten down the hatches everyone as I am going to try my hand again at directing and am so looking forward to it.  More later...