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Back row, from left: Victoriana Alfonso (assistant director), Marissa Marinick (Linda), Olivia Racer (assistant stage manager), Eleanor Glover (assistant stage manager), Jahlil ‘Jay’ Holland (Ed), Tyler Belle-Robinson (Jake), Kiara Pipino (director), Michael Krulder (Ash), Angie Delgado (Shelly), Katelyn Litwak (stage manager), Juan Cirilo (Moose/Prof. Knowby), Brian Gershowitz (Scotty); Front row: Riley Bowen (Cheryl, choreographer), Brianna Whittemore (Annie); up above the stage: Tim Iversen (music director). (Photo provided)
On Stage: Performing Arts at Our Oneonta Campuses
by Rachel Frick Cardelle

'Evil Dead: The Musical' To Be Performed Next Week at SUNY O

By RACHEL FRICK CARDELLE
ONEONTA

The last theater show for the spring semester at SUNY O is a little hard to categorize. Is it a musical? Is it a horror show? Is it a comedy? Well, yes, yes, AND yes, it is.

During the first rehearsal I attended of “Evil Dead: The Musical”—book and lyrics by George Reinblatt with music by Christopher Bond, Frank Cipolla, Melissa Morris, and George Reinblatt—I got to enjoy a musical comedy horror show unlike any other theater I have experienced!

I wasn’t the only audience member at that rehearsal who enjoyed myself. Hal Luftig, a SUNY Oneonta alumnus and a Broadway show producer, sat just a row behind me and could not stop laughing. (That’s saying a lot, given Hal has won five Tony awards and two Olivier awards, for shows like “Kinky Boots,” “Evita,” and “West Side Story” to name a few, and is currently producing “The Life of Pi” on Broadway.)

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