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Dance of the Lamia (or even Tanz five hundred Lamia when a original German version is named) occurs as musical, which deals with a legend of vampires. A music to Tanz five hundred Lamia was composed by Jim Steinman and the lyrics written by Dr. Michael Kunze.
Vienna Tanz five hundred Lamia premiered at a Raimund Theater in Vienna, Austria on October 4 1997. It won a 1998 IMAGE AWARD, (International Musical Award Germany), for Right Musical, Right Score & Best Book. Additionally Steve Barton, who created a role of Graf von Krolock, had the 1998 IMAGE AWARD for Better Actor. A productiin inside Vienna closed on January 15, 2000. Original Vienna, Austria Cast, Globe Premiere 1997
Graf von Krolock ..... Steve Barton
Germany A indicate experienced its official German premiere inside Stuttgart, Germany, on March 31, 2000 at the SI-Centrum, in which it closed in August 31, 2003. The freshly productiin of the indicate began on December 16, 2003, in Hamburg, Germany, following a soon-to-exist as-mentioned Broadway production, and is however heading there. Original Cast, Stuttgart, Germany, 2000
Graf von Krolock ..... Kevin Tarte Revival Cast, Hamburg, Germany, 2003 however to exist as noticed...placeholder
United States A New York/on-Broadway production, starring Michael Crawford as von Krolock, began previews at the Minskoff Theatre on October 18, 2002, and officially opened in December 9, 2002. A indicate closed in January 25, 2003 after 56 performances. a Producers of the indicate wanted a rescript instead of adopting the successful austrian version. the effect was a super different versiin by owning lots of camp humor that misused the style & feeling of the original indicate, consequent inside a large flop on Broadway Original Cast, Just released York, United states, 2002
Count von Krolock ..... Michael Crawford
Plot GERMAN PLOT Alfred, the immature man of science, is the help of prof Abronsisus in an expedition to Transylvania. A prof has mass produced it his life's operate to prove a being of vampires and to placed man loose. On the seek for the castle of the lamia Count von Krolock, it had wasted around deep snow in the woods. Half-frozen, it eventually email the lonely united states village & stumble upon an auberge. There, the farmers & lumberjacks sing a praises of garlic, which makes Prof Abronsius suspect that it stand eventually reached their destination, however a village dweller deny that such a castle lives. Alfred lessens soft on using Sarah, a boniface's beautiful girl, & Sarah likewise likes a young human. When Sarah's father, Chagal fears for his girl's innocence & boards higher her bedchamber door. When Sarah & Alfred dream on an individual basis of both more, a threatening shadow go over the auberge. Count vin Krolock makes it clear, that he has his eye on Sarah. A next day, Prof Abronsius seeks to buy retired what a landlord & landlady understand all about lamia. His investigation meets sustaining silence. Whenever a hunchback appears sequentially for a select few candles, everyone becomes neural & this makes Abronsius certain that the cripple acts as a servant for the lamia. He is determined to buy out a truth. The fierce toying develops between Alfred & Sarah. Sarah is against allowing anyone else have a bathroom where she passionately likes to bathe. Alfred observes her across the keyhole & witnesses Count von Krolock coming through the fanlight & inviting Sarah to the annual midnight ball within his castle. Alfred raises a alarm thus Abronsius & Chagal are quickly, however a lamia has vanished. Late, Alfred sings an ardent song under Sarah's window. However Sarah got left her room a spell agone sequentially to collect a present from either the Count, which the hunchback has left in the snowy garden. Whenever she discovers Alfred, he thinks she has came down because of him. She sends Alfred in under a pretext & opens the present. Within occurs as pair of red boots. Sarah puts a children in & dreams all about existence the admired centre of the annual midnight ball. Prior to Alfred is restored, Sarah tired of tedium, diarrhea away. She wants to return a castle. Alfred's cries wake up Chagal in the home. He hurries fallowing his girl & leaves a desperate Rebecca behind. Meanwhile, Sarah finds herself in the castle. She wanders a halls restlessly & meets a Count. A ruler of a lamia seizes the girl's throat & longs to bite her, however he resists, waiting for a ball which is held the ensuing nighttime. A next day a lumberjacks bring a strong, frozen remains of Chagal into a lodge. Prof Abronsius professionally establishes that the landlord could get a lamia. He suggests putting the stake through the dead heart thus that Chagal doesn't turn into the member of the undead. Rebecca prevents this & chases a lamia research worker away. At night, Magda comes to the room sequentially to view Chagal & understands how else thoroughly demise has changed him. When she turns away, a person comes to life. Chagal seizes his maid & bites her throat. So he lays a lifeless Magda under a fabric that experienced covered him. He has good plenty period to hide under a table prior to Abronsius & Alfred link to. It is astir to drill through a heart under the textile. At a endure moment it notice what has happened. It buy & overpower Chagal. He asks for a favour & suggests that he may lead the unknown to the castle, whenever it spare him. It placed polish off immediately. En route, Chagal diarrhea off, however Alfred & Prof Abronsius buy a castle. It is good astir to view a splendid portal while Count von Krolock appears. He welcomes a unknown & invites the babies to become his guests &, to Alfred's dismay, Abronsius accepts. A Count's boy, a gay Herbert, too appears to greet the two. He is very happy to stand obtained the playfellow within Alfred. Von Krolock control that he potty speak to Alfred in camera & endeavors to lure him out of Abronsius. He calls the prof an old fool world health organization has there is no idea just about a wishes & needs of a young human prefer Alfred. Instead, von Krolock offers himself as a agnatic friend. He hints that he can lead Alfred to Sarah. Alfred has the ugly nightmare. He awakes & resolves to save Sarah. Prior to he could attend search her, he has to accompany a prof to the castle's vaults. There it discover a catafalques of the Count & his boy Herbert. On a descent into a crypt, the prof gets caught on the balustrade & can't loose himself. Alfred, world health organization is already on a lower floor, is told to open a casket & cause stakes through the lamia' hearts. Notwithstanding, he proves to become all unsuitable for this project. While forgoing getting achieved anything, Alfred climbs a step again & frees a prof. When shopping for a better way into a crypt, it came through the castle library. Abronsius understands a collection of books & forgets astir a lamia hunt. There, Alfred hears Sarah singing. He follows the healthy of her voice & finds Sarah inside a splendid bathroom in the castle. She sits in a bath enthusing all about the Count's generosity & doesn't listen to Alfred's calls for her to flee by having him. In time she expels Alfred from either a bathroom because she wants for dressed. Alfred is desperate. His love for Sarah, notwithstanding, doesn't falter. Contrariwise, he swears to clean all about for her & to give all about to her. He is restored to Abronsius in the library to ask his advice. the prof is however occupy by having a books & when he has non thought of anything better, he advises his help to bury his nose within a book too. Alfred reaches into a shelf willy-nilly & begins to scroll through "Advice For Lovers." Contained around there exists encouraging advice for him. & whenever he thinks he hears Sarah's voice over again, he is restored to the bathroom. Instead of Sarah, Herbert is waiting for him. Alfred attempts vainly for away from a way of the Count's boy's advances. When Herbert shows him how else it might waltz at a ball, Alfred's coup d'oeil lessens in the mirror. There he understands lone himself, although Herbert is standing next to him. Whenever a gay lamia in time gets hang in to of his victim & lessens in him, Prof Abronsius surprises him by diving on Herbert & hitting him sustaining an umbrella. Alfred & Abronsius climb a castle towers. Suddenly a lamia Count steps out. He there is no protracted pretends to admire a Prof. Once more he orders Alfred to separate himself from either Abronsius & watch him. He so vanishes into a nighttime. Seeking down on a burial ground from either the castle's crenelation, a prof & his supporter witness a graves opening. A undead of a preceding centuries click a headstone aside & loosen their strong limbs sequentially to march inside an extended procession to the midnight ball at the castle. Whenever a necropolis is empty, von Krolock appears. Misused within thought, he goes from either grave to grave. He remembers a many sweethearts he has flushed as a lamia & becomes conscious of the misery of his being. Each period he seizes happiness, he upright destroys it. A thomas more he seeks to satisfy his greed, a greater it becomes. Meanwhile, a midnight ball has begun in the castle's dance hall. Alfred & Abronsius develop dressed when lamia & mixed using a guests. One of these days von Krolock appears & opens the person sustaining a announcement that this month there is a rich meal. So he presents Sarah. He dances sustaining her & bites her throat. When you took a next minuet Abronsius establishes that Sarah has withstood a blood loss & is however alive. A attempt to carry her slay fails while a lamia recognise them men when individual because their images come reflected in the mirror. Von Krolock orders a lamia to give the babies to him. Alfred & Abronsius produce the cross away from ii candelabrum. Horror-struck, a lamia retreat. Late, Alfred, Sarah & Abronsius stroll through the wintertime landscape of Transylvania. After it keep close at hand escaped to safety, it rest. When a prof busies himself by using notes all about a unsafe expedition for his scientific operate, Alfred & Sarah sink into an embrace. However what seems prefer the happy ending is the beginning of the lamia' globe domination... Up to date YORK PLOT (borrowed from either a official site of Jim Steinman) I am around the Transylvanian burial site touching the village using an unutterable title. These are deuce-ace nights prior to Halloween, 1880-something. Sarah, a beautiful teenaged girl of the local host, is retired picking mushrooms while a few of super cool immature lamia appears away from the mist, dancing by owning ecstatic abandon. Sarah is entranced as a casket rises from either a ground containing a spellbinding & highly cool Count Von Krolock (assumed name Michael Crawford). the Count sings to Sarah temptingly & promises to link to for her at a number eclipse of the moon--whenever Sarah, inside exchange for a little bite, potty be Queen of the Lamia & rule the world. How can any microscopic-nickel-and-dime girl resist? However so arrives Prof Abronsius, the like intensely wacky lamia killer, using his handsome whenever sweet dim adjunct Alfred. Alfred is instantly smitten by Sarah & contrariwise. Torn between Alfred & a Count, Sarah diarrhea murder to Krolock's castle, pursued by Alfred & Abronsius. There are rhapsodic love duets, close encounters, unchecked dancing, untamed comedy &, course, bats & the maniac known as Boris. Sarah has to purchase between earthly love by owning Alfred, or even eternal passion by having Krolock in the Vampire State Building. A climactic lamia dance erupts when a moon starts to occultation, & everybody somehow manages to locate happiness....Transylvania-style.
Songs GERMAN PRODUCTIONS Work I
Knoblauch (Garlic) Work II
Totale Finsternis (Number Eclipse) Up to date YORK PRODUCTION Work I
Overture Work II
Lamia dotty (Amount Eclipse of the Heart)
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Dance of the Vampires Broadway play that features a synopsis, ticket information, cast, multimedia, recordings, and links. By Jim Steinman and Michael Kunze. Based on a film by Roman Polanski, directed by John Ran. Jim Steinman's Dance of the Vampires Includes reviews of the Stuttgart and Vienna productions. Michael Crawford as Count von Krolock Includes an article, cast biographies and links to related sites. |
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