[NEohioPAL] A Bloody Good Show! Evil Dead: The Musical at Beck Center

[Fran Storch]

NEWS RELEASE

 

CONTACT:        Missy S. Toms, 216.521.2540 x22 or mtoms at beckcenter.org

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:    May 1, 2009

 

Evil Dead: The Musical

Cleveland Premiere of a Bloody Good Show

 

Lakewood, OH- A cabin in the woods. The Book of the Dead. Zombies.
Aggressive trees. Sexy college students. A wayward hand. Lots of catchy
show tunes. Beck Center presents the Cleveland premiere of Evil Dead:
The Musical in the Studio Theater May 8 through June 14. Sam Raimi's
cult classic 1980s films are brought to life in this campy show. Show
times are 8:00 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3:00 p.m. Sundays. 

 

During spring break, five college students break into an abandoned cabin
in the woods and unleash evil spirits. All hell breaks loose, and the
fun soon ensues with zombies...and show tunes! Written by George
Reinblatt, with music by Frank Cipolla, Christopher Bond, Melissa
Morris, and George Reinblatt, Evil Dead: The Musical delights with such
tunes as "What the F*** Was That," "Bit Part Demon," "All the Men in My
Life Keep Getting Killed by Candarian Demons," and the Rocky Horror
Picture Show-inspired "Do the Necronomicon." 

 

Blood features prominently in this show. Audience members sitting in the
front three rows are guaranteed to get splattered with plenty of plasma.
White t-shirts with the slogan "Splatter Zone Survivor" are available
for purchase as keepsakes.

 

Evil Dead: The Musical comes to the Beck Center after an enormously
successful 400-performance run in Toronto. "Maxim" calls it, "One
musical you'll actually want to see."  And The "New York Times" says
it's "the next Rocky Horror Picture Show."

 

Evil Dead is directed by Beck Center artistic director Scott Spence.
"Beck Center is thrilled to land one of the inaugural regional
productions of Evil Dead: The Musical in the entire country! This
send-up of 'all things horror flicks' fits in so perfectly with some of
the other wild and hysterical musicals seen in our Studio Theatre in
recent seasons, including Reefer Madness, Zombie Prom, and Eating Raoul.
We hope you'll leave in pain-not from the splatter zone but from
laughing so hard."

 

The Beck Center production features Equity actor Dan Folino in the lead
role of Ash. He last appeared at the Beck in The History Boys and was
the Beast in Beck's highly popular production of Beauty and the Beast.

 

The show is intended for a mature audience due to language and subject
matter. Tickets are $28 for adults, $25 for seniors (65 and older), and
$17 for students (22 and under with ID). An additional $3 service fee
per ticket is applied at the time of purchase. Preview night on
Thursday, May 7, is $10 with general admission seating. Group discounts
are available for parties of 13 or more. To reserve tickets, call the
Beck Center box office at 216.521.2540 ext. 10 or visit
www.beckcenter.org <http://www.beckcenter.org/> . For group sales,
contact Linda Hefner at ext. 29. Beck Center is located at 17801 Detroit
Avenue in Lakewood, just 10 minutes west of downtown Cleveland. Free
onsite parking is available.

 

Beck Center's production of Evil Dead: The Musical is produced through
special arrangement with Renaissance Pictures, Ltd. & Studio Canal
Image, S.A. and is sponsored by Cleveland Scene, Cox Communications, and
the Ohio Arts Council. Beck Center also gratefully acknowledges the
citizens of Cuyahoga County for their support through Cuyahoga Arts and
Culture. 

 

Beck Center for the Arts is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization that
offers professional theater productions on two stages, arts education
programming in dance, music, theater, visual arts, early childhood, and
creative arts therapies for special needs students, and gallery exhibits
featuring local and regional artists.

 

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Missy S. Toms

Director of Marketing & External Affairs

Beck Center for the Arts

17801 Detroit Avenue

Lakewood, OH 44107

mtoms at beckcenter.org

216.521.2540, ext. 22

 

Support the Beck Center and the arts with a tax deductible contribution.
Donate today! <http://beckcenter.org/support.htm> 

Evil Dead: The Musical College students, demons...and show tunes! May 8
- June 14. Purchase tickets today!
<http://beckcenter.org/seats/evildead.htm> 

Enroll today for summer camps and classes in dance, music, theater, and
visual arts: Summer 2009 Classes
<http://beckcenter.org/class/catalogSu09.pdf> . 

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