‘Reefer Madness’ Is Coming to Scottsdale

The musical satire will be performed by the Scottsdale Community Players at the Historic Stagebrush Theatre later this month.

By David Hudnall

July 14, 2021

Reefer Madness: The Musical

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Six months after it became legal for adults to walk into a shop and buy marijuana in Arizona, a musical that hearkens back to the quaint days of marijuana panic is coming to Scottsdale.

Reefer Madness: The Musical, a musical satire of the unintentionally hilarious 1936 anti-marijuana exploitation film Reefer Madness, will be performed by the Scottsdale Community Players at the Historic Stagebrush Theatre later this month.

The play “takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the hysteria caused when clean-cut kids fall prey to marijuana, leading them on a hysterical downward spiral filled with evil jazz music, sex and violence,” according to the Stagebrush site.

Tickets are $22. The show opens Friday, July 23 and runs through Sunday, August 1. More info here.

The Historic Stagebrush Theatre is located at 7020 East 2nd Street in Scottsdale.

David Hudnall was the editor of Phoenix New Times from 2020 to 2021.

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