| re: TANZ DER VAMPIRE VS DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES | |
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steven_stuart 11:04 pm UTC 04/25/13 |
| In reply to: | re: TANZ DER VAMPIRE VS DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES - steven_stuart 10:19 pm UTC 04/25/13 |
| Also, I don't think it's fair to blame any one individual. I have read posts that blame everything on Michael Crawford. That is unfair. > Although, I have to stick with what I said in my first > post. DOTV Broadway actually had a lot going for it. There > were many cool aspects. I have been impressed by many > individual parts of the show. But it would seem that all > these impressive parts just didn't come together as a > whole. There is something quite interesting about trying > to discover why that happened. > > > 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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