To start, I want to say that I’m going to avoid explaining  Evil Dead The Musi­cal is so chalked full of trib­ute lines that it’s a little impres­sive that they got some of them in. I admit that one or two of them feel a little forced, over­all they had excel­lent deliv­ery and got great crowd reac­tions. The Dia­logue was pretty solid through­out the entire play, and true to the movie there were so many bad puns and plays on words that it was killing my a little on the inside.

This killing was in the best way pos­si­ble, of course.

Ryan Ward does an almost creepy job of emu­lat­ing Bruce Camp­bell while at the same time giving the role his own touch. He deliv­ers the 12 gauge S-Mart speech so well that every­one who knew it were saying it along with him. Truly fan­tas­tic. The rest of the cast do a great job of bring­ing the show to life, and with­out them the show prob­a­bly wouldn’t have been nearly as good as it was. Spe­cial men­tion has to be given to Tenja Hagen­berg and Mike Nahrgang for stand­ing out and nearly steal­ing the show with such solid acting. Truly fantastic.

The songs were, quite frankly, rather rude. I’m not com­plain­ing about it as I tend to swear more than your aver­age sailor. The singing was enter­tain­ing, on key, and far better than I was expect­ing. The sound in the Diesel Play­house really helped make the expe­ri­ence that much better. When you have song titles like: “Stupid Bitch”, “What the Fuck was That?”, “All the Men in my Life Keep Get­ting Killed by Can­dar­ian Demons”, and “Ode to an Acci­den­tal Stabbing” you know you’re in for a good show.

I have to give spe­cial men­tion to the props, or a lack therein. The sparcity of the props really made for an inter­est­ing per­for­mance, and really puts the pres­sure on the actors to deliver a strong show. The props played a subtle but impor­tant role by accent­ing every­ones work. Espe­cially the blood.

There was a lot of blood.

Let me take a moment to explain the ‘Splatter Zone.’ If you are sit­ting in the splat­ter zone, you will get soaked in faux-​blood. They even hand out poncos to people who want them. The blood they use appar­ently washes out easily, but some­how still smells exactly like blood. It sorta freaked me out when I smelt it and I wasn’t even in the zone. The Splat­ter Zone was also com­pletely sold out when I went to pur­chase tick­ets, though you do pay a pre­mium to be there. In ret­ro­spect, I’m pretty sure it would have been totally worth it.

I was so enter­tained by the show, I and emplore every­one to go and see it. The show ends Sep­tem­ber 6th of this year, so get out and see it. For twenty bucks, you can’t go wrong.

8/10