Exorcistic: The Rock Musical review: A star is born in a rocky Exorcist parody

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No movie is safe from a musical reinterpretation. Broadway has been dazzled with reinventions like The Producers, Sunset Boulevard, and Death Becomes Her, while off-Broadways got weirder with offerings like Heathers, Teeth, and Little Shop of Horrors.

But how do you turn The Exorcist, a truly iconic horror movie about demons and sacrilege, packed with practical effects that seem impossible to recreate on stage, into a musical comedy?

For writer Michael Shaw Fisher, you come at it from a lot of angles. Inspired by the madcap humor and fourth-wall-breaking of John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Fisher created Exorcistic: The Musical. Rather than playing like a straight-up parody (like Teeth), Fishe...

Source: https://mashable.com/article/exorcist-rock-musical-parody-exorcistic

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