...I present Musical of the Living Dead, the show that has me more excited about musical theater than I ever thought possible. Billed as "an original musical parody of classic zombie films and musical theater," Musical of the Living Dead already has visions of Cannibal! The Musical (Trey Parker and Matt Stone's hilarious first film) dancing (and singing!) through my head.
Now admittedly, the clip of Musical of the Living Dead's title song that I watched isn't all that impressive. The lyrics are a bit navel-gazing and forced, and it's pretty raw stuff, but it's rehearsal footage after all. And lines like "the ones who are dead are the living ones," while they feel a bit shoe-horned into the song when I hear it out of context, suggest that this is a cast who understand that zombie movies are about more than just blood and guts and ghouls. Plus, as something of a connoisseur of parody flicks, I can safely say that if I heard 99% of musical theater parody songs out of context, my first reaction would be to think, "Man, this is a crap song." It's the nature of the beast: musical theater has an awful lot of chestnuts in its music, and most good parodies will nail that.
If you, like me, are in the Chicago area and feel like mashing musical theater and zombies into the same evening, you can pick up tickets here. The show opens next weekend (October 7th), and will be running through Halloween. I suspect I'll catch one of the earlier shows (the first or second week), so check back here for a review soon!
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