Dance of the Vampires

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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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