I saw this show in Montreal a couple opf years ago & it's hysterically funny.
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NYT
November 2, 2006
THEATER REVIEW > 'EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL'
Music and Mayhem, Blood Trail Included
By ANITA GATES
³Evil Dead: The Musical² wants to be the next ³Rocky Horror Show,² and it just may succeed.
Some people might think that you¹d need to have seen at least one of Sam Raimi¹s ³Evil Dead² movies to appreciate this show. But not necessarily. Horror comedy is, to say the least, a highly accessible genre, even for those who don¹t recognize and cheer the signature lines taken from the movies.
Sure, the show is idiotic, but that¹s the point
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Like the original 1983 film, so gory that it was rated NC-17, the musical is about five hormonal college students borrowing a cabin in the woods for a short vacation. They discover a 13th-century book of the dead, accidentally play an audiotape of demon-summoning words and are soon being possessed, one at a time, by evil forces.

This requires Ash (Ryan Ward, in the Bruce Campbell role) to fight back with a nearby chain saw. He even has to decapitate his girlfriend, Linda (Jennifer Byrne), with whom he has just sung the romantic duet ³Housewares Employee.²
The show, which basks in the self-referential, throws in characters and events from ³Evil Dead II² (1987) and dismisses the second sequel (³Army of Darkness,² 1992), which sent Ash time-traveling to the Middle Ages, with a passing remark.
The deadpan lyrics are by George Reinblatt, the playful choreography by Hinton Battle, who was co-director with Christopher Bond, and the lively music was composed by Mr. Reinblatt, Mr. Bond, Frank Cipolla and Melissa Morris.
Their most rousing number, ³Do the Necronomicon,² cheerfully evokes ³The Time Warp² from ³Rocky Horror.² But the musical high point is Annie Knowby¹s doo-wop ballad ³All the Men in My Life Keep Getting Killed by Candarian Demons.² (Annie, the scientist¹s-beautiful-daughter character, is played by Renée Klapmeyer.)
Truly devoted cultists may want to sit in the splatter section, the first three rows. Those seats are covered in clear plastic, and the audience may want to be too, although apparently half the fun is to wear a clean white T-shirt and spend the next two hours being sprayed with geysers of stage blood.
³Evil Dead: The Musical² is at New World Stages, 340 West 50th Street, Clinton, (212) 239-6200.

Every time you masturbate God kills a kitten.

I've never been to the Vegas comedy fest or the Aspen, or the New York. They're all kinda small time compared to the Montreal fest and I always get accreditation... so um... no need to go elsewhere.

And there are perks.
This year I got to appear on stage in a sketch with John Cleese.

Which was one of the coolest things I have ever done.

As the radius of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of ignorance. -Albert Einstein