Off-Broadway musical 'Zombie Prom' opens Thursday
URBANA – The Celebration Company at the Station Theatre will present the hit off-Broadway musical "Zombie Prom." It will open Thursday evening and run through Nov. 21.
"Zombie Prom," written by Dana Rowe and John Dempsey, is directed by Mikel Matthews Jr., who directed "The Full Monty" this past summer at the Station.
"Zombie Prom" takes audiences back to the nuclear 1950s and to the mysteries of birth, life, death and the undead at Enrico Fermi High School. The theater company gives the following synopsis:
"This is the tale of a sweet teenage Gidget-type girl named Toffee (Mollie Vigardt) and the 'rebel without a cause' Jonny (Zach Lutz) whose name is noticeably spelled without the 'h'.
"While the unlikely pairing falls in love at Enrico Fermi High School, the strict-as-Stalin principal Miss Delilah Strict (Suzanne Houston) seeks to intervene and persuade Toffee to distance herself from the potentially troublesome Jonny. What ensues is a series of unfortunate events that seems to bring chaos and disorder into the halls of the high school without rhyme or reason until word of this conflict reaches the slick sensationalist news reporter Eddie Filigrante (Mike Prosise). How will this saga end?"
Rounding out the cast are Liesel Booth, Maura Kinney, Samantha Bryden, Charles Mericke, Kendall Johnson and Brad O'Neill.
All shows will start at 8 p.m. For reservations call 384-4000. Admission is $8 on Wednesdays, $10 on Thursdays and Sundays and $15 on Fridays and Saturdays.
The Station Theatre is at 223 N. Broadway Ave., U, with free parking directly across the street compliments of Sav-a-Lot. For more information about the theater and the Celebration Company, visit online www.stationtheatre.com.
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