Dance of the Vampires, 2002

The run closed January 25, 2003

Opened

December 9, 2002

Closed

January 25, 2003

Performances

56

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Minskoff Theatre

Of the 397 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and carry a performance count, this is the 285th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it30 named

Dame Edith Shorthouse
Liz Mccartney
Ron Orbach
David Benoit
E Alyssa Claar
Jocelyn Dowling
Lindsay Dunn
Edgar Godineaux
Ashley Amber Haase
Derric Harris
Robin Irwin
Terace Jones
Raymond Mcleod
Erin Leigh Peck
Andy Pellick
Joye Ross
Solange Sandy
Jennifer Savelli
Jonathan Sharp
Doug Storm
Jenny Lynn Suckling
Jason Wooten

8 of these 30 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 22 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Characters8 roles held

Barbara Köhler Sarah
Werner Bauer Professor Abronsius
Aris Sas Alfred
James Sbano Chagal
Anne Welte Rebecca
Maaike Schuurmans Magda
Thomas Mülner Herbert
Torsten Flach Koukol

These came out of a wiki table. The names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.

Creative team

Director

John Rando, John

Choreographer

John Carrafa, John

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Recordings 1 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Dance of the Vampires, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

Around this production

Dance of the Vampires is a musical adaptation of the 1967 Roman Polanski film (known as The Fearless Vampire Killers in the United States). Polanski also directed the musical’s original German-language production (titled Tanz der Vampire). The music was composed by Jim Steinman, orchestrated by Steve Margoshes, and Michael Kunze wrote the original German book and lyrics.

Whatever the case, humor cropped up, but much of the laughter sounded superior, rather like the response to Dance of the Vampires. Broadway Musicals the Biggest Hit and the Biggest Flop of Filichia Peter New Yor, p. 272

• Orbach’s consolation prize? A role in Dance of the Vampires. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 241
• Kunze followed Elisabeth with Tanz der Vampire (Dance of the Vampires), based on the 1967 Roman Polanski horror spoof, The Fearless Vampire Killers. Like such shows as Phantom of the Opera and Jekyll and Hyde, Tanz ’s leading man is a conflicted, melodramatic anti-hero, but the show is more a dark parody, unlike the ot… Cambridge Companion To the Musical Cambridge Companions To Music the the Cambrid, p. 369
• 006, the Palace was home to Lestat , the third failed vampire musical on Broadway in half-a-decade, after Dance of the Vampires and Dracula . Untold Stories of Broadway Volume 2 Part 1 the Jennifer Tepper, p. 68
• Tanz der Vampire had been a serious musical, but once it became Dance of the Vampires and decided to morph into musical comedy, it needed an equally droll opening number to set the tone and let people know what kind of evening it would be. Broadway Musicals the Biggest Hit and the Biggest Flop of Filichia Peter New Yor, p. 260
• Dance of the Vampires barely made it past thirty-nine days. Broadway Musicals the Biggest Hit and the Biggest Flop of Filichia Peter New Yor, p. 262

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• Which of the 1 recordings of Dance of the Vampires document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.