Gay Bride of Frankenstein is billed as a “graphic novel that comes alive on stage" when high school friends Edna, Chloe, Hairy and Thad stumble into a night of rock music that can raise the dead! Will the girl get the girl? Never has there been a Halloween love story like this with mystery, magic and a Scooby Doo twist that will scare you silly.”
As the music starts the stage is taken over by a graphic novel projected on a large screen showing a wedding day and the new bride crying through most of the ceremony. The groom is so busy grinning ear to ear in anticipation of the wedding night that he doesn’t notice the tears of sadness from behind her veil. A mysterious girl sits at the back of the nearly empty church. She finds she simply can’t watch anymore and runs out of the church as the vows are exchanged. The groom tries to take his bride by force on their wedding night but, overwhelmed by grief, she sets herself and the bed ablaze. He escapes his bride's fiery tomb crying out to his lost love as her soul goes straight to hell, setting the course of his destiny to bring her back no matter the cost.
Jump ahead to the present out of the comic book and onto the stage and we find ourselves in reality in a high school biology class on Halloween. A strange teacher, Mr. Weatherspoon is subbing for the day. Oddly, rather than sticking to the syllabus, he reads to the class from Mary Shelley's “Frankenstein.” The roomful of seniors is made up of the sweet, virginal Chloe, determined to be a good girl until marriage. Then there’s her boyfriend Thad who’s already decided on the fraternity he wishes to join the following year. The main requirement for joining Gamma Alpha Epsilon is that Thad must not show up with his virginity intact. Meanwhile, Chloe’s best friend Edna has long since realized that her love for Chloe goes beyond the affection typically felt between two best friends, pining she sings, “Will You be my Abomination.”
Much to everyone’s chagrin, the Halloween Dance is canceled due to inclement weather. However,
strange Mr. Weatherspoon invites the whole bunch to the annual “Monsters Ball,” a celebration with a band called the Monster Makers. Chloe, Edna, Thad and Chloe’s brother Hairy decide to make the long drive to the show and that very night becomes the first night of the rest of their lives!
It's a comic-book-rock-musical for a new era! “Gay Bride of Frankenstein” combines a rock show,
theatre and comic book art to create a distinct and unique cartoon-ish style.
