History Theatre / EvilDeadTheMusical

* AdaptationAmalgamation: It's ''Film/TheEvilDead'' and ''Film/EvilDead2'' if they both happened in the same night, plus a couple of the iconic lines from ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness''. Ash goes to the cabin with a gang of his friends like in the first movie but bar his girlfriend Linda, they were removed from the BroadStrokes sequel. Then the cabin owner's daughter shows up thinking Ash killed her parents like in the second movie.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Ash tells his right hand, "You got me through more Friday nights than I care to admit!"

* BareYourMidriff: Linda and Shelly

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Ed calls himself "Evil Ed" after becoming a deadite as a near TitleDrop but ''Film/EvilEd'' is a Swedish horror movie.

* SpiritualSuccessor: ''The New York Times'' called it the next ''[[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Rocky Horror Show]]''.

* PlotArmor: Ash says a "Bit Part Demon" like Ed poses know the threat to him, the story's hero.

** Jake also does this quite openly, much to the confusion of the other characters. When first introduced he explains unsolicited why Bobbi Joe would be a redundant character and was thus AdaptedOut.

* SuddenlyShouting: In the song "Ode to an Accidental Stabbing," we have Jake doing this straight in Annie's face, sometimes leading to [[Corpsing her breaking up in hilarious laughter fits.]]

* SkewedPriorities: Shelly got possessed by a demon and is ready to attack Ash and Scotty. Scotty orders Ash, who's holding the shotgun, to kill Deadite!Shelly. But Ash refused stating that Shelly is a friend of theirs. Scotty shouts at him saying that he picked Shelly up drunk in a bar two days ago, he rips the shotgun out of Ash's hands and shoots her with it.

* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: When Ash, Annie, and Jake saw the ghost of Professor Knowby, they share this exchange.

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: Shelly was Scottie's long time girlfriend, and a friend of Ash and the girl in the first film. The musical changes it so that she's a one night stand he just met, and frequently lampshades the oddness of bringing someone he barely knows on a trip with his friends.

* AscendedExtra / WhatMeasureIsAMook: Lampshaded and subverted in "[[https://youtu.be/Ea1QkvMJcsA Bit Part Demon]]". Eddie bemoans being a bit part demon, but then it's pointed out he's been singing for two minutes without interrupted meaning he's now a character - and mid-song, he gets blown away by Ash, who snarks, "Now you'll have a bit part - in Hell!"

* {{Camp}}: The show never takes itself too seriously, although given how the source material wound up, that's no surprise.

* TheDeadCanDance: The deadites "Do the Necronomicon"

* AdaptationAmalgamation: It's ''Film/TheEvilDead'' and ''Film/EvilDead2'' if they both happened in the same night. Ash goes to he cabin with a gang of his friends like in the first movie but bar his girlfriend Linda, they were removed from the BroadStrokes sequel. Then the cabin owner's daughter shows up thinking Ash killed her parents like in the second movie.

* ObliviousAdoption: If Cheryl's played by a black actress, her last words will be to Ash that he's adopted.

* UnrelatedInTgeAdaptation: If Cheryl's played by a black actress, her last words will be to Ash that he's adopted.

* ObliviousAdoption: If Cheryl's played by a black actress, her last words will be to Ash that he's adopted.

* SpiritualSuccessor: ''The New York Times'' called it the next ''Theatre/RockyHorrorShow''.

* UnrelatedInTgeAdaptation: If Cheryl's played by a black actress, her last words will be to Ash that he's adopted.

* TakeThat: A good nature humorous one to Raimi, the play has a gag where Annie calls Spiderman "poorly directed"

* ComicalOverreacting: Ash is just as horrified by all the supernatural terror as he is a mustard stain on his pants.

* AdaptationalDumbass: Shelly in the play is portrayed in the play as a ditzy moron where in the movie she was not implied to be dumb.