Thriller / horror / mental illness musical

[csehdp]

Posted: 10/15/17 at 7:24pm

Hi,
I'm searching for musicals with small cast.

I'd like to find a thriller / horror musical, with blood maybe,

or a musical about schizophrenia or other mental illnesses.

Can you help me, please???

Updated On: 10/15/17 at 07:24 PM

[JennH]

Posted: 10/15/17 at 7:28pm

I mean, Next to Normal obviously. I feel Carrie could qualify. 

[csehdp]

Posted: 10/15/17 at 7:31pm

Thank you, Next to Normal is one of my favourites, but I want something darker....

[youwillbefound2]

Posted: 10/15/17 at 7:34pm

Sweeney Todd?

[csehdp]

Posted: 10/15/17 at 7:37pm

Not bad, but I want something less knows, something special.... :/

[youwillbefound2]

Posted: 10/15/17 at 7:48pm

Oh okay. Then Carrie like the other person said?

[JSquared2]

Posted: 10/15/17 at 7:57pm

Fun Home

Dear Evan Hansen

 

[freewilma]

Posted: 10/15/17 at 8:26pm

Little Shop of Horrors

Evil Dead

[ggersten]

Posted: 10/15/17 at 8:27pm

How small a cast?  American Psycho hsd 16 on Broadway.  There is akso Zombie Prom

[Ludlow29]

Posted: 10/15/17 at 8:51pm

SLAY IT WITH MUSIC is everything you've described:

http://www.michaelcolby.com/index.php/slay_it_with_music/

[Alex Kulak2]

Posted: 10/16/17 at 12:04am

You have very specific tastes. I like that. 

 

One of the darkest musicals I like to listen to is Murder Ballad. Listening to this show is like walking down a dark alley alone at midnight.

It's not a musical, but there's an opera called Doctor Atomic that's about the inventor of the Atom bomb, and his turmoil over creating the most destructive force ever made by humans.

It's hit or miss for some, but The Devil's Carnival (by the creators of Repo: The Genetic Opera) is supposed to be pretty good.

It's more of a romantic drama, but Sondheim's Passion is said to be his darkest work of theatre, and it deals with mental illness.

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 10/16/17 at 12:18am

Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe. It was a hit in Canada and ran Off-Broadway a year or two ago and is available through Playscripts Inc.

Also Ride the Cyclone.

Updated On: 10/16/17 at 12:18 AM

[csehdp]

Posted: 10/16/17 at 8:25am

Thanks to everybody,

I'll check every show you wrote to me! :)

[JennH]

Posted: 10/16/17 at 9:57am

OMG Ride the Cyclone, that could DEF qualify. I don't know a whole lot about it, but what I do know, it seems eerie as fffucccckkkkk....

Also this is such a specific thing you're looking for, and honestly there's not a great amount of shows that check off all those points. I would say the most "mental illness" themed show is certainly N2N, that's literally what it's about obviously, but Carrie, Sweeney Todd, and maybe a couple others, qualify as the "bloody" ones, though "mental illness" isn't the foremost theme of the show. Frankly, anyone raised like Carrie (and we all know they exist...) would certainly not come out of that with any degree of good mental health...OI!

Updated On: 10/16/17 at 09:57 AM

Posted: 10/16/17 at 10:03am

Bat Boy