musical St. Louis

ZM (Zombie Musical)

New Line Theatre

Oct 1 - 24, 2026

First there was URINETOWN. Then came YEAST NATION. And now... brace yourself... ZM! New Line Theatre opens its 35th season with the American premiere of this gloriously unhinged new meta-musical from certified chaos merchants Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis — the Tony-winning mad geniuses behind Urinetown — who looked at musical theatre and said, “What if… but weirder?” Part Walking Dead, part Bat Boy, and part “you probably shouldn’t eat that,” ZM is a darkly comic fable set in an American small town where a fast-food chain is test-marketing a new chicken sandwich. Which turns customers into zombies. Two brave teenage employees must risk everything to infiltrate corporate headquarters, uncover the truth, and maybe -- just maybe -- ask, “Should we have read the ingredients list?” You'll laugh so hard you'll never eat fast food again! Americans eat 17,000 Chicken McNuggets every second, we buy 5,000,000 buckets of Kentucky Fried Chicken every month, and we spend $10,000,000,000 on Chick-fil-A sandwiches every year -- all of which lends ZM an uncomfortable and hilarious reality.