Evil Dead the Musical

Click here for the digital program-playbill for Evil Dead.

Click here for the paper program for Evil Dead.

The show is sold out. To get on the waiting list, email to tcsaugus@gmail.com.

Click here for a review of the show by Marielle Sabbag.

Volunteers are needed to work various front-of-house jobs at each performance: fake blood cleanup, usher, selling raffle tickets and snacks. Click here to sign up. You get to see the show for free, but you are sitting on the side with not the best view.

For our next Halloween-season show, the Theatre Company of Saugus will present its most gruesome yet funny show ever: Evil Dead The Musical. This show takes all the elements of the cult classic films The Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 and combines them for one of the craziest, funniest, and bloodiest theatrical experiences of all time.

WARNING: AN IMMATURE SHOW FOR A MATURE AUDIENCE. (CONTAINS BLOOD, ADULT LANGUAGE, SEXUAL THEMES, AND IS ALL AROUND PRETTY GROSS.)

Five college students go to an abandoned cabin in the woods, and accidentally unleash an evil force that turns them all into demons. It’s all up to Ash (a housewares employee, turned demon-killing hero), and his trusty chainsaw to save the day. Blood flies. Limbs are dismembered. Demons tell bad jokes… and all to music!

There are six performances during the middle two weekends of October: On October 11-12-13 and 18-19-20, 2024. Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00 PM, and Sunday matinees at 2:00 PM. Tickets are now on sale; see our Tickets page. The location is the Theatre Company of Saugus home at the American Legion Post 210 / 44 Taylor Street / Saugus, Massachusetts 01906.

Evil Dead is directed by Jason Hair-Wynn, who led the TCS production of Little Shop of Horrors in 2023. The music director is Shane Stecher. The stage manager is Ally Lewis. The production team includes assistant choreographer Jill Tokac, set designer Mark Elliott Damon, fight choreographer Amanda O’Donnell, costume designer Vanessa Phelon, lighting designer Billy Thompson, and props builder Patrick Cleary.

Presenting the cast of Evil Dead:

Ash … Brady Neiss-Moe
Linda … Dana Murray
Cheryl … Valerie Whiteneck
Scotty … Ian Page
Shelly … Mariah (Mulcahy) Hanzel
Annie … Caroline DeBrota
Ed … Andy LeBlanc
Jake … Mark Evan Damon
Fake Shemp … Lauren Thompson
Knowby … Brian Dion
Ensemble … Meg Brown, Chelsea Callahan, Shawyoun Shaidani, Michael Silvia, Melissa Sullivan

TCS is pleased to welcome some new performers to our stage: Chelsea Callahan, Ian Page, and Valerie Whiteneck. And we welcome back the other cast members who are TCS veterans. Many thanks to all the talented people who auditioned.

Evil Dead the Musical has book and lyrics by George Reinblatt. The music is by Frank Cipolla, Christopher Bond, Melissa Morris, and George Reinblatt. Additional lyrics are by Christopher Bond, and additional music by Rob Daleman. The show is based on characters created by Sam Raimi, by special arrangement with Renaissance Pictures, Ltd. & Studiocanal. The original music supervision was by Frank Cipolla. The show was originally produced in New York by Jenkay LLC, Jeffrey Latimer Entertainment, Just For Laughs Live, and Idle Dave Productions LLC.

Evil Dead the Musical is presented through special arrangement and license with Music Theatre International (MTI). www.mtishows.com