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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Marquette Tribune, October 21, 2014, Vol. 99, No. 14, p. 6]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[PAGE 6 The Marquette Tribune Tuesday, October 21, 2014 Marquee Bastille plays packed house at Milwaukee Theatre By Stephanie Harte stephanie.harte@marquette.edu English indie-pop band continues tour, makes first MKE visit With a killer light setup and amazing vocals, it is no won-der Bastille managed to pack the Milwaukee Theatre with hundreds of cheering fans on Saturday night. There was no rest for the Eng-lish rock band as the musicians performed 19 songs, opening with “Things We Lost in The Fire” and ending the night with chart-topping hit, “Pompeii.” Lead vocalist and band founder Dan Smith kept the audience engaged and entranced as he sang and showcased his (lack of) dancing skill. Everyone in the audience, from junior high girls drag-ging along a reluctant dad as “Evil Dead: The Musical” has been sweeping the nation and per-forming all over the world from To-kyo to California. This musical sen-sation based off the horror movie series finally made it to Milwaukee just in time for Halloween. “Evil Dead: The Musical” pre-miered in the back room of a small bar in Toronto, called the Tranzac Club, back in 2003. The show re-ceived such positive feedback that people lined up around the block to check out the new act. In No-vember 2006, the musical was featured in the “Just for Laughs” comedy festival in Montreal. “Evil Dead: The Musical” made its Off- Broadway debut in New York City, where it received praise from a wide variety of fans and critics. After the musical’s Off-Broad-way debut, producers from all over the world sought after the rights to bring Evil Dead to their cit-ies, including general manager of Giant Spider Productions, Jared Stepp. Giant Spider Productions is a Milwaukee-based, independent production company dedicated to Low-budget horror musical makes MKE debut at Underground By Claudia Brokish claudia.brokish@marquette.edu chaperone, to throngs of high school and college-age students, decked out with Bastille mer-chandise, many of whom had been in line for five or more hours, chanted the names of the band members. Bastille worked the crowd well, smoothly transitioning from song to song while encour-aging audience participation. The emotion of “Oblivion” be-came a highlight of the night as Smith encouraged fans to take out their phones to use as “torch-es,” their glow then provided the only light in the theater and set the mood of the song. The indie-pop smoothness of Bastille’s music and Smith’s vo-cals were also applied to their mash-up “No Angels,” a cover of “Angels” by xx and “No Scrubs” by TLC, a fan favorite as the crowd enthusiastically sang along to the lyrics. Smith joked that he was a ter-rible dancer, saying he was em-barrassed by the crowd enthu-siastically imitating his dance moves (mostly jumping) all the same. But nothing could prepare the crowd for Smith’s decision to walk out among them during “Flaws.” Flanked by security, Smith jumped off stage, mic in hand and walked to the back of the theatre, giving high-fives to a roaring crowd as a spotlight followed him. Bastille’s light setup was well done and brilliantly used. From the moment a black curtain dropped to reveal a screen in the band’s signature triangle, sur-rounded by angled light fixtures, the crowd expected a great show and was not disappointed. With projections featuring images go-ing with the songs and beams of color-changing spotlights framing the band, the lights enhanced each song. Smith rarely stopped sing-ing to address the crowd, only to thank the audience a few times, but he did grab a camera and take sweeping shots of the crowd for the big screens on ei-ther side of the stage. At the end of the night, during the smash performance of “Pompeii,” Smith urged fans to put away their phones and enjoy the song, a command few obeyed. No one can say Bastille hogged the stage that night, as they invited their opening band, Grizfolk, to join them on stage and help sing back-up to “Pom-peii,” ending the night with the crowd’s deafening cheers. Established in London in 2010, Bastille has had plenty of time to mold its band image and make great music. The band is sure to create more hits in the future, but for now they cer-tainly left behind some new fans in Milwaukee. bringing horror and science fiction stories to the stage and screen. “I knew we would have a pas-sionate audience,” Stepp said. “The ‘Evil Dead’ films have a huge cult following and the musical sort of serves as a fifth installment in the franchise.” The musical combines elements from the films “Evil Dead,” “Evil Dead 2” and “Army of Darkness” by mixing together the most promi-nent characters and concepts from the films. In the show’s plot, five college students go to an abandoned cabin in the woods and accidently unleash an evil force, which turns them all into demons. Lead char-acter Ash, a housewares employee, must save the day with the help of his trusted chainsaw. Stepp received the rights to put on the show back in September, 2013. He then sought out help from theatre professionals in Milwaukee that he met through directing “The Burden of Being,” an original pup-pet musical that premiered at the Alchemist Theatre last year. “The Milwaukee theater scene is such a close-knit community,” Stepp said. “I feel like everyone has an ‘I got your back’ mentality.” After professionals got on board with the production, Stepp had them listen to the Broadway score and watch YouTube clips of the Evil Dead films, as well as live tapes of the musicals from other cit-ies. This gave Stepp’s team a better understanding of the mate-rial, allowing them to of-fer their own ideas for the Milwaukee installment. Stepp held auditions in July of this year to ensure actors and band members would be available for the Halloween season run. The cast-ing called for the ten roles in the show, as well as the five-member band. In the end, Stepp selected ac-tors with a base knowledge of the films, as well as a background in professional theater. “One of the toughest parts was separating the extreme fan from someone who has experience putting up professional theater,” Stepp said. The show offers a wide variety of effects including strobe lights, fog, breakaway walls and intricate zom-bie and demon makeup. A unique experience that comes with seeing any performance of “Evil Dead: The Musical” is the chance to sit in the “Splatter Zone.” This special seating area consists of the first few rows where audience members have the opportunity to be showered with fake blood throughout the show. “It’s as close to the action as you can get, other than being an under-study,” Stepp said. A “Splatter Zone” ticket also in-cludes a free rain poncho, shoe boo-ties and a table for placing snacks and drinks. Since five of the show dates are already sold out for that section, those interested in the “Splatter Zone” must act fast. From the toe-tapping musical score to the mind-blowing special effects, “Evil Dead: The Musical” will leave any audience member in awe. “Our show is like streaming a horror movie,” Stepp said. “Except Bastille’s lead singer Dan Smith sings one of the band’s chart-topping hits on Saturday night. Photo by Claudia Brokish/claudia.brokish@marquette.edu Photo by Claudia Brokish/claudia.brokish@marquette.edu here you get to watch the carnage unfold live from a safe distance.” The show runs at the Arcade Theatre in the Underground Col-laborative (161 W. Wisconsin) between Oct. 23-Nov. 9. Tick-ets can be purchased online at brownpapertickets.com. Photo via brownpapertickets.com]]></dcterms:description>
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