You're right. The only people in Britain who've heard of Dance of the Vampires were either Steinman or Crawford fans anyway.
> I don't agree. Just stress that it's not the Bway
> version. I also think that the Bway version was around
> for such a short time it's not known to the vast majority
> of the theatre going public.
>
> > Is there any hope of seeing a West End
> > production of Tanz der Vampire which is true to the
> > original?
> >
> > I think, at the moment, there is not such a chance to do
> > it. We always discuss it a lot, but I don't have to
> > explain to you that the influence of Broadway is stronger
> > on the West End than on continental Europe, and we (the
> > European productions) were not hurt at all by the Broadway
> > failure of that version of Tanz der Vampire, but you have
> > to keep the title and it is not a good start for a show if
> > it had such a Broadway history. I think you need very
> > daring producers to do that, and even if you tell people
> > it's a completely different show, I doubt if someone would
> > do that at the moment.
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