In that case you might want to make it very clear that the latter has nothing to do with this version...???
K.
> 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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