CraBlogged

Nah I'm just kidding: I like silly pun titles. In fact, the musical was a smash hit! They did a bloody hell of a good jorb. It was pretty freaking fun-tastic in most senses of the word. High-larious romp-filled musical sensation of Evil Dead goodness. It really, really helped that we just saw both films the night before, as a lot of jokes would have just gone whoosh due to bad memory. Pumped us up in the mood and the musical definitely delivered.

They did a good job of mixing up the three movies into one musical - it was mostly the first and second, but with the characterized Ash from the third one. A lot of one-liners from Army of Darkness popped out which always made the audience cheer. And I found myself on multiple occasions saying the lines along with the lead. Now I'm no Rocky Horror expert, and I never plan to be, so I can't draw an analogy here, but maybe just mentioning those two words will bring some sense to someone out there.

The musical numbers were relatively funny and catchy, but my favorite of course was "Do the Necronomicon". I’d highly recommend seeing this to anyone who has a passing fancy of the movies. Of course you'd have to fly out to Toronto to see it - because the main character basically made the whole show. He looks excruciatingly like a young Bruce Campbell too. Awkwardly so.

Only complaint I have would be the serious dearth of blood. What made the films so awesome was the running gag of copious amounts of really-fake blood. And they hyped up a lot in the musical the fact that you WILL get blood splattered on you. But in the first act only 1-2 people got some, and it wasn't until the near-ending number in the second act that people actually got some on them. Now I don't know exactly why this is the case. It could be that a lot of stage blood is expensive. It could be that they worry about actors tripping or slipping, so they want to limit it. It could be they ran out of blood for tonight’s showing, or were tired of wasting it on an 11:00pm show that wasn’t filled up. It could be any number of logistical reasons that were holding them back from dumping gallons and gallons of fake blood on people, but I definitely felt a big lack of it. Then again this is a funny musical spoof, not Gallagher.

Oh, and I finally got to eat some super-yummy Chinese food in Toronto's Chinatown. I have eaten enough to last me through a cold harsh summer of no-real-good-chinese-food-around-heres. All in all a deliciously ferocious evening of food, fun, music, and evil deadites doing group disco dancing!