Cass High School’s Theater Company held its long-awaited spring musical production of Zombie Prom last weekend with three performances held between May 7 and 8.
The show, which proved to be amazingly successful and well attended, was advertised as “An Alarming Anecdote of Atomic Adolescent Angst!”
It was directed by Cass High Drama Instructor Chris Agan, as well as Judith Cunningham and Kelly Rudeseal.
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“I’m really really proud of the job that the students did. They worked really hard through a lot of problems we had due to weather and the new facility. They did a great job,” said Agan. “The support we got from the parents and the faculty made it a success as well. It made my job easier.”
The Off-Broadway musical, Zombie Prom, was originally written by Dana P. Roe and John Dempsey and has since been adapted into an independent film. The musical takes place in the 1950s and is the story of star-crossed teenage lovers, Toffee and Jonny, who attend Enrico Fermi High School.
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When the high school principal, Miss Strict, convinces Toffee to leave Jonny because he’s from the wrong side of the tracks, it breaks Jonny’s heart. He drives to the local nuclear power plant and jumps into a cooling tower, killing himself just days before the senior prom.
But the guilt-ridden Toffee doesn’t have long to grieve before Jonny returns from the dead as an atomic zombie. He tells her he wants to change for the better and win her back in time to take her to the senior prom. As Toffee wrestles with her decision, Principal Strict gets wind of Jonny’s atomic return and declares that no zombies are allowed at the prom.
Before long the characters have a “Zombie Civil Rights Movement” on their hands and a secret that threatens to end Principal Strict’s dislike of the atomic zombie, Jonny.
“I saw all three shows,” said production viewer, Denice Dean Zehler. “The kids worked really hard to make the performance unique each time. It was funny and entertaining. I am biased because I know quite a few of the kids involved, but there is quite a bit of talent coming from those students.”
The show starred students Jon Farmer as Jonny, Julie Baker as Toffee, and Kimberley Vargas as Miss Delilah Strict.
More than 15 other students had roles in the musical as well as a large staff of students who contributed to background work and music.
