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| re: Vulture series on Broadway flops takes on Dance of the Vampires. | |
| Last Edit: BroadwayTonyJ 12:20 pm EDT 08/15/20 | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 12:17 pm EDT 08/15/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Vulture series on Broadway flops takes on Dance of the Vampires. - Michael_Portantiere 11:05 am EDT 08/15/20 | |
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| Making the vampire a serious character and the vampire hunters comic was the formula for the Abbott & Costello versus the Universal Studio monsters series in the 40's. It worked pretty well on film back then. Although there's no guarantee it would have worked in Dance of the Vampires on Broadway, I do believe it would have been better if Crawford had played the role as a serious vampire. It ended up being a very silly show, pretty much doomed to be a flop, but I didn't hate it -- the supporting cast made it somewhat tolerable. I went to see it because I had never seen Crawford before on stage. It was disappointing that he was so ridiculous in the show. I wish I could have seen him in Phantom on Broadway or Woman in White in London. |
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| re: Vulture series on Broadway flops takes on Dance of the Vampires. | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 04:28 pm EDT 08/15/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Vulture series on Broadway flops takes on Dance of the Vampires. - BroadwayTonyJ 12:17 pm EDT 08/15/20 | |
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| "Making the vampire a serious character and the vampire hunters comic was the formula for the Abbott & Costello versus the Universal Studio monsters series in the 40's. It worked pretty well on film back then." Good point, and I grew up watching and loving those movies on TV, but I do I think that's a very different kind of situation, and somehow I can't see a similar approach working in a stage musical. Maybe someone will try it someday, and we'll see what happens :-) "Although there's no guarantee it would have worked in Dance of the Vampires on Broadway, I do believe it would have been better if Crawford had played the role as a serious vampire. " Agreed, but to clarify: Since the score as it ended up on Broadway had some really campy, supposedly humorous numbers along with the more "serious" ones, and since the book as I recall it was jokey for very large sections of the action, I don't think any change in approach in Crawford's performance would have worked without major changes in the actual writing of the show. |
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