| TANZ DER VAMPIRE VS DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES | |
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steven_stuart 10:44 pm UTC 04/24/13 |
| In reply to: | Here - rockfenris2005 10:18 am UTC 04/24/13 |
| This guy is a really good writer. Thanks Ryan. These are the two paragraphs that I found to be most interesting. I think they neatly sum up many of the issues raised in this thread. > There's no question that the Vienna Tanz was superior to > the Broadway re-working. It had a consistency of tone > lacking in the Broadway version, the humor and chills > smoothly integrated as in the film. And in its original, > non-stop version, the Jim Steinman-Michael Kunze score > sounds a good deal better. > > Would this original version, in a straight translation, > have succeeded on Broadway? I doubt it. New York critics > long ago turned against this sort of romantic pop opera, > if they ever favored it to begin with. But at least the > original wasn't the schizophrenic, unplayable mixture of > camp and gothic seriousness now available at the > Minskoff. | |
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