Based on the 2007 cult classic comedy horror film of the same name, itself inspired by the mythic goddess and cautionary folk-tale tradition of vagina dentata (“That’s Latin” for ‘toothed vagina’), designed to discourage men from rape, pre-marital intercourse, and excessive sexual activity for fear of having their membrum virile bitten off, the ferociously funny new musical comedy Teeth, by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Michael R. Jackson (book and lyrics) and Anna K. Jacobs (music), is now playing an open-ended Off-Broadway engagement at New World Stages, following its sold-out Spring run at Playwrights Horizons. Alyse Alan Louis (center) with Sydney Parra and Madison McBride. Photo by Valerie Terranova. Directed by Sarah Benson at a progressively rapid-fire pace with no-holds-barred devilish humor, salacious language, and lots of bloody simulated sex acts – with the front row designated as a splash zone (and that’s not the only thing that flies through the air or dangles above the audience) – the wild story is centered on the devout Evangelical Christian teenager Dawn O’Keefe, a leader in her community of Promise Keeper Girls – a female youth group of the Fundamentalist church, sworn to a vow of purity in a culture of shame and repressed desire. Their Pastor is Dawn’s fiercely zealous stepfather, who never consummated his marriage to her mother and is physically and emotionally abusive to her stepbrother Brad. In defiance of his father, and out of revenge for a childhood injury to his finger from a vaginal-probing encounter with his sharp-toothed stepsister, he has joined the rebellious anti-feminist VR group of male Truthseekers, dedicated to taking down the “feminocracy.” Will Connolly (center, seated) and members of the cast. Photo by Valerie Terranova. Sound crazy? It is, in the most riotously camp and hilariously irreverent ways, as delivered by an all-in cast of eleven with over-the-top comic timing, sidesplitting moves (choreography by Raja Feather Kelly, fight direction by Robert Westley, and intimacy direction by Crista Marie Jackson), and killer vocals on nineteen “unhinged” musical numbers that delve into the twisted minds of the characters, the inflexible repressive rules they’ve been trained to obey, and the ferocious evolution of Dawn, backed by an electrifying seven-piece band (led by music director and conductor Patrick Sulken, with orchestrations by Kris Kukul). Alyse Alan Louis stars as Dawn, transitioning from the pious brainwashed teen who sings of her “Precious Gift” and ingrained “Shame in My Body,” backed by the chorus of Promise Keeper Girls – Courtney Bassett as Becky, Jenna Rose Husli as Trisha, Micaela Lamas as Rachael, Madison McBride as Keke, Sydney Parra as Fiona, and Wren Rivera as Stephanie – to the raging incarnation of “Dentata,” fiendishly taking charge and wreaking vengeance on the men who try to control women and their sexuality with her lethal lower bite (in costumes by Enver Chakartash and wig, hair, and make-up by Rob Pickens and Katie Gell that switch from plain and body-concealing to red-hot and revealing). Alyse Alan Louis. Photo by Valerie Terranova. In the roles of the males feeling the fury of her “Teeth” are Jason Gotay as her sweet boyfriend Tobey, who shares her belief that “Modest Is Hottest” until they start “Playing with Fire;” Will Connolly as her damaged and vindictive stepbrother Brad, wounded by the power that lies “Between Her Thighs;” the absolutely uproarious Jared Loftin as her gay friend Ryan, who camps it up, strips down, and promises “I’m Your Guy,” but has a redemption plan of his own that elicits her wrath; and the sensational Andy Karl as the insanely fervent Pastor, delivering impassioned sermons and vehement punishments, then doubling as Dawn’s wacky Dr. Godfrey, whose gyn exam of her doesn’t go quite as smoothly as expected (with all the men also appearing in VR headsets as the misogynist Truthseekers). Andy Karl. Photo by Valerie Terranova. The set by Adam Rigg is dominated by a central neon cross in a wood-paneled church meeting room, with walls that become increasingly spattered with blood, stairs that open and serve as the local lake where Dawn and Tobey break their vows of purity, then shifts easily to the doctor’s office with a roll-in examination table, and ultimately to the infernal place where Dentata and her cohorts are in control, all enhanced with apropos lighting by Jane Cox and Stacey Derosier, sound by Palmer Hefferan, props by Matt Carlin and Sean Frank, and special effects by Jeremy Chernick, including strobes, haze, hell fires, and the fruits of the labors of each woman’s vagina dentata. Like the movie on which it’s based, the bold and boisterous stage production of Teeth is destined to be a cult classic, with its unfettered laughs and screams, overlying feminist theme, and purposeful parody of the religious patriarchy and its unreasonable precepts, so if you’re not easily offended, go and sink your teeth into it. Running Time: Approximately one hour and 55 minutes, without intermission. Teeth plays an open-ended run at New World Stages, West 50th Street, NYC. For tickets (priced at $39-174, including fees), go online.