Dance of the Vampires
Shows · Dance of the Vampires
Professor Abronsius and his young assistant Alfred travel to Transylvania to investigate rumors of vampires. They arrive at a remote inn where Alfred falls for Sarah, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter. When the seductive Count von Krolock kidnaps Sarah to make her his vampire bride, Alfred and the Professor infiltrate the Count's castle during a grand midnight ball. But they arrive too late — Sarah has willingly joi…
- Opened
- 2002
- Performances
- 56
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Modern
Productions1 on Broadway
| 2002 | Minskoff Theatre Original. December 9, 2002 · John Rando | 56 performances |
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Recordings 1 album held
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9 passages naming Dance of the Vampires, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Orbach’s consolation prize? A role in Dance of the Vampires. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p241
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… book:cambridge-companion-to-the-musical-cambridge-companions-to-music-the-the-cambrid#p369
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 . book:untold-stories-of-broadway-volume-2-part-1-the-jennifer-tepper#p68
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. book:broadway-musicals-the-biggest-hit-and-the-biggest-flop-of-filichia-peter-new-yor#p260
Dance of the Vampires barely made it past thirty-nine days. book:broadway-musicals-the-biggest-hit-and-the-biggest-flop-of-filichia-peter-new-yor#p262
Dance of the Vampires was one of Broadway’s most recent vampire musicals, but it was an atrocity. book:broadway-musicals-the-biggest-hit-and-the-biggest-flop-of-filichia-peter-new-yor#p271
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