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TV Show Reviews
Review of "Evil
Dead: The Musical" 11/1/17 By
Karl
Coming to a theater near you!
"Ash vs. Evil Dead" premiered on
Starz Halloween 2015, with a
season 2 release of September 27, 2016. I was surprised to hear that 2017 would have no Ash until February 25,
2018. It was just my luck, though, that "Evil Dead: the Musical" would be played in my city. I wanted to go in with minimal
research or expectations, so I decided to book my tickets based off their webpage,
which has Bruce Campbell quoting “Evil Dead the Musical was everything I hoped it would be: outrageous, high-energy, and really fuckin’ funny.” With that alone, I booked two tickets
to the October 29th
showing and selected “Splash Zone.”
The night of the show, we took our trash bag covered seats
and were handed ponchos and goggles. This was definitely going to be a bloody, interactive experience. The play began as a sort of mix between
the movies "Evil Dead" and "Evil Dead 2," but at the same time, nothing like either. Four friends, and one
 recently joined women
that Scott seemingly picked up the night before, all traveled to the cabin in the woods to drink and smoke marijuana. Normally I would be fine with a little artistic creativity, but the portrayal of the stupidity of these kids was just horribly wrong. A marijuana
scene begins where all the characters, save Cheryl, are eating special brownies and dragging along the “story” in
such an uneducated, stereotypical depiction of marijuana intoxication that I begun to think this play was written by a middle schooler. It had
nothing to do with any of the story lines of any of the Evil Deads and had no point in even being included in this musical.
Finally, around the 1 hour point of the musical, it began
to get truly bloody. Intermission follows a scene where Ash is cutting up Linda. Blood spurts from the back and sides of the theater
(from what I assume are super-soaker-filled blood guns) and ends up with a bloody mess. At the end of intermission, I returned
to my seat. When the play resumed, it immediately picked up where it left off,
with blood guns blazing and shooting the audience with gallons of crimson liquid. The stand out song in the whole musical was “What the
Fuck Was That”, a duet by Ash and Scott. If
every song had been of similar quality, it would have definitely changed the entire mood of the play. “Good Old Reliable Jake” was another successfully funny song, which introduced the character Jake, a hillbilly from
"Evil Dead 2" that leads Ed and Annie to
the cabin to find Annie’s father.
After seeing the show, the best part of it was how immersive
it was: blood, deadite green slop, and characters interacting with audience members. If you are an Evil Dead fan, I would recommend seeing this show in the splash zone, but otherwise, there are not too many redeeming qualities about it. I probably wouldn’t see
it again unless it was a much larger production, or if it was revised to be more well-written.
However, I enjoyed the experience and am glad I went.
MORE INFORMATION:
STARZ SERVES UP ANOTHER
ASH-KICKING DOSE OF "ASH VS EVIL
DEAD," SEASON THREE TO PREMIERE
FEBRUARY 25
Starz Releases Official
Season Three Teaser Key Art
Beverly Hills, Calif. -
October 4, 2017 - Grab your
chainsaws and watch out for
Deadites because the grooviest
show on TV returns in all its
Ash-kicking splendor with more
grisly battles, ghoulish banter
and more blood-drenched fun than
ever. The highly anticipated
10-episode third season of STARZ
Original horror-comedy series
"Ash vs Evil Dead" will premiere
on Sunday, February 25, 2018 at
9PM ET/PT.
The wickedly gore-filled
series stars Bruce Campbell as
Ash Williams, the
chainsaw-wielding anti-hero
tasked with saving the world
from evil; Lucy Lawless as Ruby,
the unpredictable foe and
occasional ally who has strong
ties to the origin of the
"Necronomicon;" Ray Santiago
plays Pablo Simon Bolivar, Ash's
loyal sidekick and eternal
optimist; and Dana DeLorenzo
returns as Kelly Maxwell,
orphaned in Season One and ready
to kick some evil ass. The
upcoming season also finds Ash
discovering his long lost
daughter, Brandy Barr, played by
newcomer Arielle Carver-O'Neill
("House Husbands," "Suburbs,"
"Conspiracy 365").
The third season finds Ash's
status in Elk Grove, Michigan
has changed from murderous urban
legend to humanity-saving
hometown hero. When Kelly
witnesses a televised massacre
with Ruby's fingerprints all
over it, she returns with a new
friend to warn Ash and Pablo
that evil isn't done with them
yet. Blood is thicker than water
in the battle of good vs Evil
Dead!
The Evil Dead original
filmmakers Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert
and Bruce Campbell serve as
executive producers on Season
Three along with Ivan Raimi and
Rick Jacobson. Mark Verheiden
serves as Showrunner with
Producer Moira Grant.
New and long-time Evil Dead
fans can catch up on Seasons One
and Two of the STARZ Original
series "Ash vs Evil Dead" on the
STARZ app.
And visit the official Ash
Facebook Page and follow
@AshvsEvilDead on Twitter and
Instagram. Join the conversation
with #AshvsEvilDead and #STARZ.
Website:
https://www.starz.com/series/ashvsevildead/episodes
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