MAT sets auditions for 'Evil Dead: The Musical'

Montana Actors’ Theatre is set to hold auditions for a musical take on a popular cult movie series: “The Evil Dead”

Auditions begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday at the Little Theatre on the bottom floor of the west end of Cowan Hall on the Montana State University-Northern campus.

The MAT promotion for the auditions says that "Evil Dead: The Musical" — based on Sam Raimi’s films telling the story of five college students who unleash an evil force — may sound like a horror story, but it’s not.

“The songs are hilariously campy and the show is bursting with more farce than a Monty Python skit,...