Zombie Prom
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Zombie Prom is an Off-Broadway musical, also adapted into a film. It was first produced at the Red Barn Theatre, Key West, Florida in 1993. It opened off-Broadway in New York City at the Variety Arts Theatre in 1996.
Zombie Prom centers around the students at fictional Enrico Fermi High School. Sweethearts Toffee and Jonny ("without an 'H'") break up, and in a fit of grief, Jonny commits suicide at the Francis Gary Powers nuclear power plant. He reawakens as a zombie, but is subject to discrimination upon his return to school. Specifically, principal Delilah Strict plans to prohibit zombies from attending the school prom.
The film adaptation of Zombie Prom played in 2006 at a number of film festivals, receiving 4-star reviews[1] and awards including Best Short Film at the Palm Beach International Film Festival. The cast was mostly unknown, but featured drag queen RuPaul as Principal Strict.
The storyline of the ostracism of zombies is meant as an allegory for anti-gay discrimination. In part the production is also a pastiche of 1950's musicals and films, with the stereotypical plot of a rebellious bad-boy and the good-girl who loves him turned on its ear.
