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May 30 2007

Evil Dead - The Musical?

10 Responses to “Evil Dead - The Musical?”

1. # Mikeon 30 May 2007 at 08:42:45

   The only thing lower on the scale than musical theatre is mime.

   This tempts me, but I still get stuck up on the musical hurdle.

2. # Mugwugon 30 May 2007 at 09:01:16

   I’m conflicted on musicals, the occasional snippet of Gilbert and Sullivan still pops into my head now and again, and it’s not an altogether horrible thing.

   This, however, has the potential to be either an entertaining night, or a complete cringe-festival. Either way for the price of $17 it may be worth it.

   I’m going to see if Lisa and I can juggle our schedules and make an appearance, it’s not the end of the world if we can’t, but it’d be a neat experience none the less.

3. # Pieteron 30 May 2007 at 09:22:09

   “the occasional snippet of Gilbert and Sullivan still pops into my head now and again, and it’s not an altogether horrible thing”, Ah, OK now that’s frightening.
   Please tell me you’re not humming anything from “H.M.S. Pinafore” while on patrol.

   No good will come from this thread.

4. # Mugwugon 30 May 2007 at 09:46:36

   Hehe… actually it’s usually from the Pirates of Penzance, specifically;

   I am the very model of a modern Major-General
   I’ve information vegetable, animal, and mineral
   I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
   From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical

   I’m very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
   I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
   About binomial theorem I’m teeming with a lot o’ news
   With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse

   With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse
   With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse
   With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotepotenuse

   I’m very good at integral and differential calculus
   I know the scientific names of beings animalculous
   In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
   I am the very model of a modern Major-General

   In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
   He is the very model of a modern Major-General

   I know our mythic history, King Arthur’s and Sir Caradoc’s
   I answer hard acrostics, I’ve a pretty taste for paradox
   I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
   In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous

   I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies
   I know the croaking chorus from the Frogs of Aristophanes
   Then I can hum a fugue of which I’ve heard the music’s din afore
   And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore

   And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore
   And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore
   And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinapinafore

   Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform
   And tell you ev’ry detail of Caractacus’s uniform
   In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
   I am the very model of a modern Major-General

   In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
   He is the very model of a modern Major-General

   In fact, when I know what is meant by “mamelon” and “ravelin”
   When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
   When such affairs as sorties and surprises I’m more wary at
   And when I know precisely what is meant by “commissariat”

   When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery
   When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
   In short, when I’ve a smattering of elemental strategy
   You’ll say a better Major-General had never sat a gee

   You’ll say a better Major-General had never sat a gee
   You’ll say a better Major-General had never sat a gee
   You’ll say a better Major-General had never sat a sat a gee

   For my military knowledge, though I’m plucky and adventury
   Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century
   But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
   I am the very model of a modern Major-General

   But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
   He is the very model of a modern Major-General

   Admittedly I don’t know all the words, it’s this verse that keeps popping unbidden to mind;

   …When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
   When such affairs as sorties and surprises I’m more wary at
   And when I know precisely what is meant by “commissariat”…

   I think it’s just my subconscious telling me to get out there and buy a Mauser, or maybe a Javelin…I’ve never been good at this subconscious stuff.

5. # Ted Onyszczakon 30 May 2007 at 15:23:56

   You left out the part that the first three rows are warned that they are in the ’splatter zone’. Any show with a splatter zone must have something going for it.

   Oh, and Brenda’s 3 months pregnant with our second child.

6. # Pieteron 30 May 2007 at 16:08:22

   Congrats Ted,
   But I still stick by my “No good will come from this thread.”.

7. # Mugwugon 30 May 2007 at 17:54:52

   Theodore: I did leave out the splatter zone… slipped my mind.

   -GRIN-

   Piet: No good has already come of this. Here endeth the lesson.

8. # Mikeon 31 May 2007 at 08:52:48

   Gallagher had a splatter zone. Never thought much o’ him. Worst musical I ever went to.

   While Lester Miserables wasn’t bad and “Into the Woods” was good times I fear any genre that includes “Mamma Mia”, “We Will Rock You” and “Dirty Dancing” in its ranks.

9. # Mikeon 31 May 2007 at 08:53:21

   Oh.

   Lets not forget the stories that your friend brought back from “Lord of the Rings” Teddy…

10. # Ted Onyszczakon 31 May 2007 at 11:34:25

    I have many friends who work in theatre in various capacities. I try not to hold that against them.

    My musical theatre experience was doing sound in Pentegueshene for a theatre company including a 1 month run of Cabaret. I quit working theatre that summer. QED.

    My hope for Evil Dead is more of a Gwar like experience. If I wanted zombies singing disco, go see Mamma Mia.

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