BCT is presenting it for two weekends as an Edge of the Creek production, a category that means, among other things, sort of new and not for the kiddies.
Chris Harmon, who relishes a project like this one, is staging it with a cast that includes Dean Swann, Lindsay Sherman, Angele Price, Bethany Locklear, Jonathan Berry, Michael Shannon, Lynn Kesson and Darren Brown.
Inspired by Sam Raimi’s “Evil Dead” films of the 1980s, the bloody, slapstick and rock musical by George Reinblatt and Frank Cipolla, Christopher Bond and Melissa Morris had its premiere in 2003 in Toronto and opened off Broadway in 2006 in New York.
Not all of its song titles can be printed here. Some that can include: “It Won’t Let Us Leave,” “Look Who’s Evil Now,” “I’m Not a Killer,” “Bit-Part Demon,” “All the Men in My Life Keep Getting Killed,” “Ode to an Accidental Stabbing” and “We Will Never Die.”
Times are 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays, Oct. 21-30. BCT is located in the Lofino Adult Enrichment and Cultural Arts Center at 3868 Dayton-Xenia Road.
Tickets are $13 for adults, $11 for students, BCT members and senior citizens (55 and over). Call (937) 429-4737 and leave a message, or send an email to boxoffice@bctheatre.org. For more information, visit www.bctheatre.org.
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• The Dayton Theatre Guild, 430 Wayne Ave, will present Neil Simon’s 1991 Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy “Lost in Yonkers” for three weekends beginning Friday, Oct. 21. Fran Pesch is directing the story of two young boys left by their widowed father with their grandmother in Yonkers while he heads off to repay a loan. Cast includes Barbara Jorgensen as Grandma Kurnitz, Rachel Wilson as Gert, Rob Breving Eddie, Amy Deiderich as Bella, Saverio Perugini as Louie, Joel Daniel as Arty and Philip Srock as Jay.
No one under 7 will be admitted. Times are 8 p.m. Fridays through Nov. 4 and Saturday, Oct. 22; 5 p.m. Oct. 29 and Nov. 5 and 3 p.m. Sundays through Nov. 6. Tickets are $17 for adults, $15 for seniors and $10 for students. Call (937) 278-5993 or make reservations at www.daytontheatreguild.org.
• William “Kip” Moore of Dayton took runner-up honors among more than 50 candidates in Cincinnati’s “Singing With the Broadway Stars” online auditions. Hopefuls were vying to be part of “Neil Berg’s 101 Years of Broadway” Oct. 12 at the Aronoff Center in Cincinnati.
Moore, who performed “All Good Gifts” from the musical “Godspell” for his tryout piece, said he will be directing a November production of Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls Who Consider Suicide . . . When the Rainbow is Enuf” in November at the future downtown Dayton club The Vault (formerly c{space). He is also casting a production of “The Christmas Story” for December at the Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center in Dayton.
Footlights illuminates local theater arts news and audition information. Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2377 or email tmorris@DaytonDaily News.com.
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