Re-Animator the Musical

Re-Animator the Musical Re-Animator: The Musical, directed by Stuart Gordon, music & lyrics by Mark Nutter.

2015 dates: 1/4-1/18 at The Smith Center in Las Vegas.

2011: LA Weekly Awards, Ovation Award, Drama Desk awards, February-August at the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood, CA.

2012: Hayworth Theater (LA), New York Musical Theatre Festival (Sold-out run, rave in the New York Times), Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

2014: Re-Animator returns for a sellout fall run at the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood.

2015: Re-Animator conquers the Smith Center in Las Veg

as for a January limited engagement.

2016: original cast album recorded in June.

2017: Interviews, audio commentary, documentary project TBA

Our RAVE in the New York Times print edition, Saturday July 21 2012:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/new-york-musical-theater-festival-report-re-animator-the-musical/

This is the new stage musical adaptation of Stuart Gordon's 1985 horror classic, "H.P. Lovecraft's Re-Animator." Gordon himself returns to co-write the book and direct, with Dennis Paoli & William Norris returning to help pen the script, along with Chicago's Mark Nutter providing music & lyrics. This all-new stage adaptation sold out its 2011 engagement at the Steve Allen Theater followed in 2012 another run at LA's Hayworth Theater, a sold-out run at NYMF, a critically acclaimed run at Edinburgh Fringe, a return to the Steve Allen in 2014, a limited engagement at the Smith center in Las Vegas in 2015, and the original cast album recording in 2016. Re-Animator tells the story of Herbert West, a brilliant young medical student who has created a glowing green serum that can bring the dead back to life. What should be a medical breakthrough results in hideous monstrosities and ghastly consequences. “I guess he just wasn’t fresh enough,” is West’s constant refrain as his quest for fresh subjects results in the murders of half the faculty of the medical school. The original FX team of John Naulin, Tony Doublin and John Beuchler return for spectacular mechanical, blood, and zombie effects. The first three rows are a designated "Splash zone" where fans get drenched in blood from the stage. The original cast album was recorded in june 2016 and stars George Wendt as Dean Halsey, Graham Skipper as Herbert West, Chris McKenna as Dan Cain, Rachel Avery as Meg Halsey, Jesse Merlin as Dr. Carl Hill, Marlon Grace as Mace, Cynthia Carle as Dr. Harrod, and ensemble members Brian Gillespie, Liesel Hanson and Mark Beltzman. Former cast members include Jessica Howell, Darren Ritchie, Harry Murphy, Ken Campbell, Tyler Milliron, and Richardson Jones. http://www.ReAnimatorTheMusical.com

As to the future: who can predict where the show will re-animate next?

10/09/2025

The Academy Museum's annual Monster Mash event returns on October 25, celebrating femininity in horror with screenings and special events.

Our own Dr Hill is playing the title character in EXORCISTIC Off-Broadway through Nov 1! Dazzling Broadway guest stars s...
10/08/2025

Our own Dr Hill is playing the title character in EXORCISTIC Off-Broadway through Nov 1! Dazzling Broadway guest stars scheduled every night. Our beloved Stuart Gordon really liked this show and saw it at least twice back in the day.

Our beloved Stuart has been gone 4 years today. Still miss him and think of him often.Here's a happy memory from the on...
03/24/2024

Our beloved Stuart has been gone 4 years today. Still miss him and think of him often.

Here's a happy memory from the one night he sat in the splash zone and got nailed.

07/13/2023

Our Dr Hill reprises his role as the Old Priest in the hit rock musical EXORCISTIC just in time for the film's 50th anniversary. 4 more shows through 7/22 at The Three Clubs in Hollywood followed by 2 shows at Midsummer Scream in Long Beach 7/28-29. The new Exorcistic cast album is out on all major platforms, and the show may even pop up in NYC this fall...

Our Dr. Hill is doing his first puppetry role since his 200 decapitations some years ago.He's a sinister space alien in ...
05/22/2023

Our Dr. Hill is doing his first puppetry role since his 200 decapitations some years ago.

He's a sinister space alien in the outlandish hit musical "For the Love of a Glove" about Michael Jackson at the Sagan-Druyan Theater (the successor venue to the Steve Allen Theater, where RTM was born).

He's only guaranteed to perform through June 24th... you really don't want to miss this.

Re-Animator the Musical reunion! Coming soon.
03/29/2021

Re-Animator the Musical reunion! Coming soon.

Here's our lovely new Christmas Smackdown promo.
08/27/2019

Here's our lovely new Christmas Smackdown promo.

This is "Christmas Smackdown Promo" by Richard Marshall on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

08/11/2019

On August 11, 1947 director Stuart Gordon was born in Chicago, Illinois. Gordon attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and soon after formed Screw Theater in the summer of 1968. After the University of Wisconsin demanded future theatrical productions by Screw Theater be overseen by a university professor, Gordon cut his University ties to form Broom Street Theater. Gordon made his directorial debut with the horror classic Re-Animator in 1985. He followed Re-Animator with From Beyond (1986), Dolls (1986), Daughter of Darkness (1990), Robot Jox (1990), The Pit and the Pendulum (1991), Fortress (1992), Castle Freak (1995), Space Truckers (1996), Dagon (2001), King of Ants (2003), Stuck (2007) and Fear Itself (2008). For the Masters of Horror Showtime series, he directed the episodes “Dreams In The Witch-House” and “The Black Cat”. With Brian Yuzna and writer Ed Naha he co-created Honey, I Shrunk the Kids for Disney Studios and executive produced the sequel Honey, I Blew Up the Kid. He also co-wrote Body Snatchers for Warner Brothers in 1993 and The Dentist for Trimark in 1998. In 2011 Gordon produced, directed and co-wrote the book for Re-Animator: The Musical. It played to sold out houses, rave reviews and standing ovations for six months at the Steve Allen Theater. In 2012, it was performed at the New York Musical Theater Festival (NYMF) and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Gordon's next play Taste, premiered at Los Angeles' Sacred Fools Theater Company in April 2014. The play, based on the true story of Armin Meiwes, the Rotenburg Cannibal, was written by Benjamin Brand. (Photo Credit: Film Struck Daily)

09/18/2018

One Los Angeles performer has played Dr. Hill in Re-Animator, Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs, and now Father Merrin in The Exorcist. Did we mention he sings opera, too?

Our Herbert & Hill read Hutch and Roman in Rosemary's Baby 6/23 with an all-star cast including Laraine Newman & Clarke ...
06/16/2018

Our Herbert & Hill read Hutch and Roman in Rosemary's Baby 6/23 with an all-star cast including Laraine Newman & Clarke Wolfe! A 50th anniversary fundraiser for Planned Parenthood and the Downtown Women's Shelter directed by Chelsea Stardust.

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