![]() ![]() This version was not a parody or based on the Deane-Balderston play, but more of an iteration of the original novel. In 1998 Halifax's Neptune Theatre debuted Dracula: A Chamber Musical which ran for which ran for six months at Canada's Stratford Festival in 1999. It received a negative review by Alvin Klein of The New York Times, who suggested that "Perhaps there are no bad ideas for musicals, only bad musicals, like this one." The United Kingdom had Dracula, Another Bloody Musical which opened at the Westminster Theatre in London. The story is re-imainged into a modern-day asylum. Possessed, The Dracula Musical was produced off-broadway with a production of $1 million. Musical adaptations continued into the 1982 with Jack Sharkey's Dracula, The Musical? in 1982 which was written under the pen name of Rick Abbot. Other musical adaptions would follow such as Dracula, A Musical Nightmare (1978) starring Joe Spano. The musical contained 15 songs and received a positive review from Robert B. At the Dublin Theater Festival in 1965, a musical comedy Dearest Dracula. ![]() Musical Įarly musical adaptions of Dracula played for camp. Other Dracula plays continued through the 1980s to the 21st century in Chicago and New York with several being variations on the Deane-Balderston adaptation, new stories or parodies featuring actors like Raul Julia, Daniel Day-Lewis and Martin Landau performing as Count Dracula. Scivally stated that after the 1970s ended an "explosion" of vampire plays continued into the next decades. On the play's reveal it was praised for its sets designed by Edward Gorey and Langella's performance which Scivally proclaimed "reclaimed the vampire from a decade of camp and parody and presented Dracula with grace, dignity and a healthy dose of sex appeal." It was sold out its first two weeks leading to merchandizing of the play with Gorey-themed wallpaper, a toy theatre, and short-lived fashion of men wearing capes in Manhattan. For the plays 50th anniversary in America, was developed again with Langella in the lead. Other plays like Dracula Sabbat from 1970 was basically a scripted black mass featuring nudity and simulated sex acts. Variations involving Count Dracula were performed as plays in parody such as Fangs Ain't What They Used to Be in 1969 and I'm Sorry, the Bridge is Out, You'll Have to Spend the Night in 1970. The Deane-Balderston adaptation of Dracula was described by Bruce Scivally as "seemingly in performance every year since its debut". ![]() Frank Langella took on the role of Count Dracula, beginning 7 August 1967, an adaptation that William Gibson, director of the Berkshire declared to be "the worst play of the season". When the play performed in Detroit, several accidents happened on stage leading audiences to laugh at them and what were supposed to be scary moments. John Carradine took to the stage as Dracula in the early 1950s. A revival of the play would be held by Leo Shull called Genius, Inc., opened in December 1942 featuring a Dracula with a Toothbrush moustache. Lugosi would return to act in the play in 1933 after his appearance in the film Dracula (1931) and would return again to the play in 1941 for a two-year tour and again later in 1947. The play would continue in other countries in 1929 such as Australia. The play was originally booked for a four-week engagement, but proved so popular that it was held over, closing on 18 August 1928. Woodward purchased rights to present Dracula on the West Coast, and the play opened at the Biltmore Theater in Los Angeles on 25 June 1928. Gary Don Rhodes described the play as "taking America storm", a statement backed up by a 1930 article in the Chicago Tribune claiming that the play "has been rolling around the country ever since its first vogue two or three seasons ago, coaxing money into box offices that had abandoned hope of the drama, and of the shriek-and-shudder plays of the last five years it easily leads the list." Dracula opened at New York's Fulton Theatre on 5 October 1927, where it ran for 265 performances finally closing in New York in May 1928. The Broadway version featured actors who would later be cast into the Universal film, including Bela Lugosi as Dracula, Edward Van Sloan as Prof. Balderston to Americanize the Deane's text. ![]() After seeing the play in London, American producer Horace Liveright bought the rights to the for Broadway, and hired John L. The play opened in London's Little Theatre on 14 February 1927, where it was sold well while not being critically well received. The play's success led to Deane taking it on tour for the next three years. This version of the play was a modernized retelling of Stoker's story. In 1924, the British producer Hamilton Deane premiered a stage version of Dracula at the Grand Theatre in Derby, England. Program for the 1897 Lyceum Theatre stage production of Bram Stoker's Dracula, or The Undead Drama ![]()
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