Forget The Walking Dead. We’ve got The Dancing Dead.

Evil Dead, the unkillable musical, is back again

On Aug. 13, 10 years to the day of its first performance at the Tranzac Club during the great Blackout of 2003, the producers of the only show with a “splatter zone,” announced that it’s alive once more.

After a tryout run in Philadelphia in September, the show will start Toronto performances on Oct. 24 at the newly refurbished Bathurst Street Theatre. An American tour is slated to follow, under the aegis of Starvox Productions, whose head, Corey Ross, hopes to duplicate the touring success he’s enjoying with Potted Potter.

With book and lyrics by George Reinblatt and music by Christopher Bond, Frank Cipolla, Melissa Morris and Reinblatt, Evil Dead The Musical is based on Sam Raimi’s 1981 cult classic movie The Evil Dead, the original “cabin in the woods” slasher film.

On that electrically challenged opening night a decade ago, the cast poured out into the street, switched to acoustic instruments, had audience members hold flashlights or turn on car headlights to illuminate the scenes, and generally proved that the show must go on.

“I knew that night that this show would prove indestructible,” says original producer Jeffrey Latimer.

He was proved right, because there have been 150 productions around the world in the last decade, including four separate ones in Toronto.

Its been part of the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal, played a successful run off-Broadway, and knocked them dead in Tokyo, Madrid and Seoul.

Toronto fans will be pleased to hear that Ryan Ward, the leanest, meanest leading man that ever was, will be returning in the role of Ash and that director Bond will again be pulling the strings to make sure that the stakes are high and the jokes are low, just like they’ve always been.

Flying in the face of superstition, tickets will go on sale at 12:01 a.m. on Sept. 13.

Watch for further details and be afraid, very afraid, or at least wear a sheet to protect you from the blood and gore once that chainsaw comes out in Act II.