Zombie Prom
| Zombie Prom | |
|---|---|
| Music | Dana P. Rowe |
| Lyrics | John Dempsey |
| Book | John Dempsey |
| Productions | 1993 Key West 1996 Off-Broadway |
Zombie Prom is an Off-Broadway musical, also adapted into a short film. It was first produced at the Red Barn Theatre, Key West, Florida in 1993. It opened off-Broadway in New York City at the Variety Arts Theatre in 1996. It also opened November 2009 in London with a UK Premiere at the off-west end Landor Theatre.
Zombie Prom opens at Enrico Fermi High School. The students go through their daily routine ("Enrico Fermi High") and the audience meets Jonny, a rebel who spells his name without the traditional 'H.' We also meet the good-girl heroine, Toffee, and Miss Strict, the principal of Enrico Fermi High School. The song is ended abruptly by an air raid siren, signalling a duck-and-cover drill (the school is located near an unstable nuclear power plant), and Jonny and Toffee fall in love ("Ain't No Goin' Back"). They date for several months before Toffee's parents forbid her from seeing Jonny. She reluctantly breaks up with him, and Jonny commits suicide by hurling himself into the Francis Gary Powers nuclear power plant. He is buried at sea in international waters, with the rest of the nuclear waste.
Three weeks pass, and Toffee's friends begin to notice that she's been upset and is unable to focus on her baton twirling. She expresses her sadness over Jonny's death, and retells the night of Jonny's death from her point of view ("Jonny Don't Go"). Meanwhile, the rest of the school gets itself ready for the senior prom, which is rapidly approaching. Toffee continues to wear black clothing in mourning for Jonny ("Good As It Gets"). Her friends insist that she should go to Prom, and get over Jonny's death, since it has been "three whole weeks!"
Toffee begins to hear Jonny's voice on occasion ("The C Word"). Her friends urge her again to move on, but Toffee insists "he's dead, but he ain't gone." Frustrated, she states that "life's a trap of the same old crap." 'Crap,' however, is a taboo word at Enrico Fermi High, and Miss Strict reminds her of the school's philosophy ("Rules, Regulations, and Respect").
Much to her surprise, Toffee begins hearing Jonny's voice emanating from her locker ("Blast From The Past"). He begs to be let free and bursts from the locker, shocking the other students. This is not well-received, and the students are scared and disgusted by Jonny's deteriorating appearance.
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