Overlake students perform ‘Zombie Prom’ this weekend

The Overlake School's seventh- and eighth-grade Performance Workshop class will sludge through "Zombie Prom" at 7:30 p.m. tonight and 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Fulton Performing Arts Center, 20301 N.E. 108th St., Redmond.

The Overlake School’s seventh- and eighth-grade Performance Workshop class will sludge through “Zombie Prom” at 7:30 p.m. tonight and 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Fulton Performing Arts Center, 20301 N.E. 108th St., Redmond.

“It’s a cross between ‘Grease’ and ‘Little Shop of Horrors,'” explains show director Bill Johns.

It’s a story of a high school good girl named Toffee who falls for a rebellious boy named Jonny. In true “Romeo and Juliet fashion,” when Toffee’s parents forbid her from seeing Jonny, he plunges himself into the cooling towers of the town’s nearby nuclear power plant. Jonny, now turned zombie, shows up at high school again.

Set in the 1950s, “Zombie Prom” has dancing numbers as well as toe-tapping music from the ’50s.

Tickets are available at the door the day of show. For more information, visit https://www.overlake.org/#articles/1665.