Zombie Broadway

Zombie Broadway, or Dave Stewart's Zombie Broadway, is a graphic novel created by David A. Stewart, David Harris, Christine Schenley, and illustrated by Daveki Neogi. Zombie Broadway is published by Virgin Comics.

Zombie Broadway graphic novel cover, art by Devaki Neogi

It tells the story of a zombie outbreak in New York City that can only be quelled by the song and dance of the Broadway stage. Stewart plans to turn the concept into a musical.[1]

Plot

In Zombie Broadway, the human population of Manhattan has been decimated to the point where the only survivors are a few unlucky civilians and a bunch of stuck-up Broadway effetes. The acting mayor (the others have been eaten or killed) of New York has convinced the President to try taming the zombies through theater before the ultimate resolution of dropping a nuclear bomb on the city. The story of Zombie Broadway takes the form of an ensemble black comedy, full of violence and humor.

Publication

Zombie Broadway was published in March 2008 by Virgin Comics. Recently, Virgin and Stewart began a Zombie Broadway karaoke contest via YouTube where contestants send videos of themselves singing the title song from the planned Broadway adaptation.[2]

Film adaptation

In 2014, Stewart hired Jonas Åkerlund to direct the feature film adaptation and Cole Haddon will adapt the comic.[3]

gollark: Phrasing it as "the EVIL CAPITALISTS want us to unlockdown because they only care about the economy" is ridiculous - *we need to produce things* and people will probably become increasingly unhappy/crazy as time spent at home drags on.
gollark: Unfortunately the UK does not appear to *have* a plan, and the government is completely refusing to explain anything it's going to do.
gollark: Locking everything down just effectively puts the whole thing on pause, but at great cost, which makes sense as a way to buy time for launching another strategy.
gollark: <@!330678593904443393> We can hardly be locked down forever, or even much longer.
gollark: No, that is mediocre things.

References
  1. VIRGIN ANNOUNCES ZOMBIE BROADWAY BY DAVE STEWART (press release), Newsarama
  2. YouTube - Broadcast Yourself
  3. Yamato, Jen (25 September 2014). "'Zombie Broadway' Heading To Screen From Eurythmics' Dave Stewart". Deadline. Retrieved 12 August 2019.


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