‘Zombie Prom’ on now at Prospect High School

Prospect High School’s theater department is presenting its spring musical, “Zombie Prom,” through Saturday, April 27, at 7 p.m. A Saturday matinee will be at 2 p.m.

“Zombie Prom” is sort of a mashup of “Grease,” “Little Shop of Horrors,” and “The Walking Dead,” but “slicker and a lot funnier,” according to director Jeremy Morton. There is definitely something for everyone: dancing, doo-wop, teen ballads, rocking and rousing music, and even a nuclear zombie.

This is the story of rebel-without-a-cause Jonny (played by senior Franco Longobardi), who drives his motorcycle into an atomic power plant and comes back as a zombie, determined to win his girl back.

Jonny struggles to be treated just like any other kid. He and his girlfriend, Toffee (senior Jamie Kowalczyk), and the town reporter, Eddie Flagrante (senior Patrick Pfohl), battle against the hardheaded school principal Miss Strict (senior Chloe Chidester) to allow Jonny to re-enter high school, and especially to go to prom. “Zombie Prom’s” message is one of equal rights for all — in this case, even the undead.

Longobardi has been selected as one of 24 finalists in this year’s Broadway in Chicago High School Music Theater Awards program. Longobardi will compete on Monday, April 29, against some of the most talented musical theater students in the state, representing Prospect’s “Zombie Prom.”

Admission is $10. For information or to obtain tickets, call House Manager Sandy Ghilarducci at (847) 718-5222.