

seeing South Park's Cartman team-up with Cthulhu against Justin Beiber to. “Cthulhu: the Musical!” will be directed by Katy Curtis, and with a script and original songs from playwright Josh Gross. Run time is approximately two hours with an intermission. or worse, stories and fragments he never intended to see the light of day.

In the original short story, The Call of Cthulhu, Cthulhu is destroyed towards the end, only to quickly re-form. There was a lot of comedy to be found and this show is so much fun to perform.” It probably means Norah’s sacrifice was in vain. So I knew we had to do that as a show, even though the challenge of turning something so dark into musical comedy was pretty daunting. When I said, ‘Cthulhu: the Musical,’ for the first time, a bunch of heads immediately turned in my direction, and strangers started asking where they could see it. “So when thinking about what our next piece might be, I sometimes add the words, ‘the musical,’ to different phrases in conversation to see how people react, if it has that magic combination of familiar hook, and new twist. “We are always looking to turn classic themes on their head instead of rehashing tired storylines,” said Gross. Though Lovecraft is not as much of a household name as writers like Stephen King or Edgar Allen Poe, he is widely considered to be the creator of the genre of gothic horror, and the creatures and themes he created are highly influential on modern literature of all genres Lovecraft, and tells the story of his most famous creation: Cthulhu, a giant, malevolent, octopus-faced elder god who hibernates beneath the ocean, communicating to humans through their dreams, slowly driving them mad. The play is adapted from the 1929 short story, “The Call of Cthulhu,” by horror icon H.P. The production features a full cast of five actors with elaborate custom-made hand-and-rod (Muppet style) puppets, a full-rock band and projected multimedia backgrounds. It has sold out entire runs in Oregon, Washington and Los Angeles, and has earned rave reviews from publications like from SyFyWire, Bloody Disgusting, Broadway World, Jefferson Public Radio, The Seattle Times and more.

We are holding nothing back on this one.” “So we are bringing our biggest production yet, on our biggest tour to date. “We’re really excited to be back in action after COVID,” said the company’s artistic director, Josh Gross.

The show will be at NCRT in Eureka in mid-July. Puppeteers for Fears, Oregon’s only dedicated puppet musical horror troupe, is on the road to cities throughout the Northwest for performances on the company’s “Back From the Dead” 2023 summer tour.
