Opening night for Exorcistic: The Rock Musical was September 8, and the stars were out to celebrate—on and offstage. Go inside the opening night festivities, including a surprise onstage cameo performance from scantily clad Tony winner Darren Criss, in the gallery below.

Playing The Asylum NYC, the horror-comedy features a secret Broadway guest star at every performance. Previews began August 25. The piece previously premiered Off-Broadway in 2023.

Written by Michael Shaw Fisher, who serves as the book writer, composer, and lyricist, Exorcistic: The Rock Musical stars Emma Hunton (Good Trouble). The musical is a self-aware parody of the Exorcist films, creating a chaotically over-the-top musical that dares to ask the question: when does horror tip into hilarity?

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Photos: Exorcistic: The Rock Musical Opening Night

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Exorcistic follows a theatre company planning to put on a parody of The Exorcist in a new money-making scheme. As the company take the show from staged reading to Broadway, their quest for fame and money supersedes their art and humanity, ensuring that their lead actress becomes actually possessed in the process.

In addition to Hunton, the revival features Ethan Crystal, Jesse Merlin, Steven Cutts, Michael Shaw Fisher, Leigh Wulff, Jaime Lyn Beatty, Richardson Cisneros-Jones, and Hannah Bonnett.

Special guest stars set to pop in include Lance Bass, Jaime Cepero, Nicci Claspell, Garrett Clayton, Brian Logan Dales, Deanna Giulietti, Frankie Grande, Lena Hall, Ali Kresch, Charlene Incarnate, Lindsay Heather Pearce, Steven Taylor, Sophia Urista, Kirsten Vangsness, Nina West, Marissa Jaret Winokur, and Evan Rachel Wood, with many more waiting in the shadows.

Exorcistic is directed by Chadd McMillan and Alli Miller-Fisher and features choreography by Camal Pugh, musical direction by Zach Spound, lighting design by Marciel Greene, prop design by Kelly Stavert, costume design by Chadd McMillan, and intimacy direction by Rebecca Reaney. 

Exorcistic is produced by Hunton, Miller-Fisher, McMillan, and Mia Criss in association with Mark Giberson, Marciel Greene, Bass, Winokur, and Exorcist onscreen stunt double Eileen Dietz. General management is by LDK.

Visit Exorcistic.com.