About the Play:

Evil Dead: The Musical (High School Version) is a full-length musical comedy by George Reinblatt. Based on the Evil Dead cult classic films, this hilarious, record-breaking Canadian musical tells the tale of 5 college kids who travel to a cabin in the woods and accidentally unleash an evil force that turns them all into demons. And although it may sound like a horror, it's not! The songs are hilariously campy and the show is bursting with more farce than a Monty Python skit.

Evil Dead: The Musical (High School Version) has none of the swearing – all of the blood! Takes all the elements of the cult classic films The Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness and combines them into one of the craziest theatrical experiences of all time. It unearths the old familiar story: boy and friends take a weekend getaway at abandoned cabin, boy unleashes ancient evil spirit, friends turn into Canadian Demons, boy fights until dawn to survive. As musical mayhem descends upon this sleepover in the woods, "camp" takes on a whole new meaning with uproarious numbers like "All the Men in My Life Keep Getting Killed by Candarian Demons" and "What the Heck Was That?" It will have audiences rolling in their seats and screaming for more and more blood. This show has fun with the horror genre and, in doing so, appeals to a wide audience. And with this combination of blood, jokes, cheesy effects and awesome musical numbers, Evil Dead: The Musical (High School Version) is unlike any show you’ve ever seen.

Evil Dead: The Musical (High School Version) premiered in 2017 at Stagedoor Manor in Loch Sheldrake, New York. This full-length adaptation of the hilarious off-Broadway musical is tailor-made for high-school and middle-school performers.

Cast: 3 to 7 women, 4 to 6 men, 1 to 8 either gender, expandable chorus

What people say:

"The next Rocky Horror Show." — The New York Times

"A ridiculous amount of fun." — Variety

"Wickedly campy good time." — Associated Press

About the Playwright:

George Reinblatt is a Canadian comedy writer. Born and raised in Toronto, he graduated from Queen's University, where he studied film. From Queen's he went to Humber College to study comedy writing. While there he began writing freelance comedy and quickly established himself as one of the country's hottest comedy writers. Over the past few years, he has written for the likes of John Cleese, Tina Fey, William Shatner, Kelly Ripa, Jason Alexander, Howie Mandel, George Lopez, Jim Belushi, Tom Arnold, Tim Allen, Dame Edna, Craig Ferguson, and many more comedic greats at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal. He has also written for television programs such as Canada's Walk of Fame and Rick Mercer's Monday Report. But his is best known for writing the off-Broadway show Evil Dead: The Musical based on the three Evil Dead movies produced by Spiderman creator Sam Raimi.