Sorority Girls Slumber Party Massacre: The Musical
"This is the show you don't want to miss. It's fast, funny and macabre - just the kind of edgy fluff people expect at a fringe festival. Sweeney Todd fans will be especially pleased. A unifying, tenacious grip on just the right sense of irony makes dippy songs about things like finding a severed head in a toilet bowl absurdly funny. Prediction: Manitoba playwright/composer Angus Kohm will make serious money some day."
- Pat Donnelly, The Montreal Gazette
"Screamingly funny and well performed. How can you go wrong with a song title like There's a Severed Head in the Toilet Bowl? REACTION/BUZZ: "Even the corpses are singing and dancing." "I laughed, I cried... I just about wet myself."
- David Gobeil Taylor, The Montreal Mirror
"A wondrous little piece by Angus Kohm... it moves fast and the
timing is bang on. I want the cast album!"
- Gaetan L. Charlebois,
The Montreal Hour
"In a perfect world, all Fringe shows would feature at least some of the spunk and spirit of Winnipeg playwright Angus Kohm's Sorority Girls Slumber Party Massacre. The Winnipeg Based B-movie fanatic, who brought his Bad Girls Jailhouse to the Toronto Fringe last year, once again shows a genius for casting and a gift for catchy tunes and good humored, ridiculous lyrics... Sorority Girls is good silly fun."
- Kathleen M. Smith, The Toronto Eye
"Oh what the hell."
- Jason Sherman, Toronto Life
"This is one of the must-see shows of the festival... like Andrew Lloyd Webber staging Halloween. Kohm's lyrics draw hoots of laughter... There's a Severed Head in the Toilet Bowl appears destined to become Kohm's signature song. Five Stars!" - (highest rating)
- Kevin Prokosh, The Winnipeg Free Press
"Here's a show that gives you exactly what the title promises. Yes, there are sorority girls, they do have a slumber party, there is a massacre and, incredibly, it's all set to music. Winnipeg's Angus Kohm is the evil genius behind it. Lyrical gems like That Madman Is Nuts pop up frequently. Only one song goes to far: There's a Severed Head in the Toilet Bowl was just too disgusting."
- Cam Fuller, The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix
“He’s baaa-ck! No, not the sadistic ax murderer with a lust for the blood of nubile sorority girls, but local composer/playwright Angus Kohm, who unleashes a raucous, cutting-edge satirical attack on slasher movies. Who needs a two sided ax when you can wield cutting edge songs with razor-sharp lyrics honed to leave listeners helplessly laughing? Sorority Girls debuted in 1997 as a kind of stage cousin to the 1996 film Scream. Since then, the genre has been crowded by more Screams, Scary Movies and I Know What You Did Last Summer. Kohm still has the musical field all to himself. Undeniably silly and violent in a cartoon-like manner, Sorority Girls stands up as a hilarious skewering of the cliche of teen slasher flicks.”
- Kevin Prokosh, The Winnipeg Free Press (2001)
“A returning Fringe fave, Sorority Girls should have been force-screened to the Wayans Brothers before they spoofed the horror genre in Scary Movie and its terrifyingly bad sequel. This is all the ammo they needed, as five local university students remind us that horror films are already effective self-parody. With rousing song-and-dance numbers such as There's a Severed Head in the Toilet Bowl, and I Feel Like a Walk in the Basement ... Alone, the musical plumbs the depths of bad taste -- with hilarious results... This will be a hot ticket by the end of the week, even in the spacious Prairie Theatre Exchange.”
- The Winnipeg Sun (2001)
"Call it magic, fringe-style. But what other explanation is there when actors start belting out the tune There's a Severed Head in the Toilet Bowl and all the prim looking grannies in the front row start tapping their toes? And then, by the time the cast starts singing I'm a Crazy Mixed-Up Psychopathic Killer, the grannies actually look ready to jump on stage to sing along. That is the rather magical scene these days at the Manotick Fringe Festival, site of the world premiere of Sorority Girls Slumber Party Massacre: The Musical."
- Paul Gessell, The Ottawa Citizen