You’re reading that correctly; a theatre group in Chicago is staging a Zombie musical.

Sadly from the description it appears that this is going to be a retrograde and repressive show pushing all the usual outmoded anti-Zombie stereotypes. You know the ones I mean:

Billed as a “Musical Zom-com” (zombie comedy), Musical of the Living Dead is an original musical parody of classic zombie films and musical theatre. Featuring music inspired by everything from Gershwin to Green Day, Musical of the Living Dead follows the lives of ten very different people trapped in a farmhouse during the breakout of a zombie apocalypse. They are all brought together seeking refuge from the brain-eating zombies outside and, following classic zombie genre rules, we see who gets eaten, who comes back to eat someone else and who lives to fight another day.

Compared to this, Jonathon Coulton seems like a revolutionary thinker! I mean, at least in Re: Your Brains the Zombies can carry on a conversation.

Well, the one Zombie at least. The jerk from down the hall.

Now it appears that a gory spectacle will be staged at Zombie expense, and only a couple hours away from the ZRC World Headquarters by car.

We’re going to have to put our heads together and come up with a plan on this one; it’s hitting a little too close to home, after all.

A special thanks to the Horror Society for bringing this to our attention.

Tags: Music, Social Justice, Zombie Theatre

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