#frank wildhorns dracula

[bestmusicalworldcup]

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[doyouknowthismusical]

#musical theater #do you know this musical #poll #Dracula #dracula the musical #frank wildhorn #don black #christopher hampton #language: english

[thenightling]

I'm not a big ballet fan. I'd prefer if this was Frank Wildhorn's Dracula the musical (which I saw on Broadway in 2004 and wish to see again in person one day). But I am sharing this because that is an EXCELLENT Dracula costume!

I love when they make his cape resemble bat wings. They did that in Frank WIldhorn's Dracula the Musical too. He spread the cape out and flipped in the air to perch upside down while singing "Life after Life."

#Dracula #Count Dracula #Frank Wildhorn #Dracula The musical #Dracula das Musical

[dianapocalypse]

the song at the end of today’s re:dracula has killed me to death. remember me fondly

#re:dracula #dracula daily #frank wildhorn could never

[someoneunknownhuh]

Dracula the Musical has no gay vibes? I will prove you wrong.

#european musicals #european musical theatre #tanz der vampire #frank wildhorn #bi musical #dracula musical #dracula #bi energy #thomas borchert #musical #dracula x jonathan harker #jonathan harker #dracula daily #bram stoker

[spale-vosver]

Every so often I think about how Frank Wildhorn served absolute cunt in Jekyll & Hyde and then dedicated the rest of his life to making really really really bad musicals

#jekyll & hyde #dracula #the scarlet pimpernel #the count of monte cristo #frank wildhorn

[kuuyandere]

The world will not turn until you turn to me My world will not turn until you turn to me...

- Dracula the Musical

#dracula #dracula the musical #quote #quotes #your yandere #frank wildhorn #yandere romance #yandere content

[love-liberty21]

Look what I got for my birthday:

#is it a perfect adaptation? No #but do I love it with all my heart? Well yes - the Graz version at least #interested to see how this will turn out #dracula daily #dracula #dracula das musical #dracula the musical #frank wildhorn #german musicals

[peregrineggsandham]

See?? See this is what I mean. "Ominous waltz from a Frank Wildhorn musical" is its own entire genre and they all go so well together.

#death note #dracula #the scarlet pimpernel #frank wildhorn

[luminouslumity]

And in honor of today's chapter, here is a song from Dracula the Musical, as well as an animatic to go along with it! I'm not even joking when I say I've been waiting for awhile to share this!

And yes, as I've mentioned before, the musical is Dracmina. He also falls in love with her because she's apparently supposed to be the reincarnation of his dead wife in this version as well, and even as someone who loves the trope, I also hate that this is so common. The vampires are also still evil, btw, which really doesn't make Mina look all that great, either, especially when Jonathan is still the sweetest thing ever! And this is all such a shame too, because the songs have no reason to slap as hard as they do!

But really, if you're going to pair Dracula up with someone from the group at all, then at the very least, have it be Jonathan and/or Lucy (even in the musical, we still have the "this man belongs to me" line). Yeah, I'd still hate it if it were the same story romanticized, but it would at least make more sense than pairing him up with Mina, who basically hated him on sight!

To my knowledge, there is only one direct adaptation that actually has Lucy be the reincarnation of Dracula's dead wife and that's the Dan Curtis version from 1973.

#dracula #dracula daily #dracula the musical #frank wildhorn #lucy westenra

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[anddreadful]

full thoughts on frank wildhorn’s dracula having re-watched it in its entirety for the first time in many years:

- I watched a recent upload of an (american) community theater production, specifically because a) its sound quality was surprisingly good and b) my recent interest is because a local theater is putting it on, so given the opportunity, I wanted to see whatever version of the show is currently available for north american licensing

- the production was charming but the community theater (technically dinner theater! I went on a google hunt to find the theater and it’s only two hours from me lmao) was community-ing so I can’t really write home about the acting. or the singing although mina had a nice voice

- the one place I will dunk on the production is how hilariously chaste mina and dracula were. the biting scene was notably stiff and un-suggestive of sex despite taking place on a bed. maybe one of the actors wasn’t comfortable with doing anything more, but they had only one kiss, and it was so late in the show and such a teeny little dry peck on the lips that I hollered. at that point just don’t do it and pretend theirs is an ~intellectual connection or something

- dracula did do a creepy hair-petting thing to both renfield and Mina that I was a big fan of

- “if loving you keeps me alive, then how can leaving me be right?” is such a funny lyric. dirtbag manipulative boyfriend dracula

- I knew not all the songs were on the studio cast recording, but I had forgotten HOW MANY songs aren’t on it. where is How Do You Choose? If I Could Fly? It’s Over????? I had fully forgotten there was a life after life reprise. I was obsessed with the studio cast recording in high school and I know all those songs by heart (except for a perfect life because I think it’s bad) and now i’m like. why was I gatekept from so many of the songs!! why is there no professional english recording of Its Over!! answer me frank!!!!!

- this is not a new thought per se but a) I so love that all the suitors are present and themselves b) this show squanders them. jack has no personality whatsoever (I would trade TWO mina ballads for a jack song please I beg), arthur gets needlessly dunked on, and quincey is delightful and incredible and also narratively extraneous given that he doesn’t kill dracula or die at the end

- on that note, though, I cannot believe they included quincey being the first person to promise mina to kill her if the time comes in a book-accurate version of that scene. even the 1992 version doesn’t do that!!!! and this is basically just an adaptation of that movie!!!!! is this the ONLY dracula adaptation to include that detail? it’s a top five book moment for me so I very literally love to see it

- I understand that we had to beef up van helsing as a character SOMEHOW but was a dead wife song really the best we could come up with

- there are too many sad slow songs in this show for what it’s trying to accomplish! some of them immediately on top of each other! and some of the songs distinctly go on for just one too many verses 😭

- does the mina/ dracula romance make any sense? no. does the show make any effort whatsoever to make it? no. am I into it anyway? yeah. fuck it. I have terrible taste and so i think dracula as a disembodied voice like HI? HELLO? DON’T IGNORE ME? and mina being like “unfortunately, i’m into it” rocks

- “She Devil, Nosferatu” and “the lady in white” from that other dracula concept album are both so superior to “undead one, surrender” I almost feel bad for Frank and co there, but “the master’s song”, “life after life”, and “deep in the darkest night” still fucking slap

- the train hypnotism scene was soooo good except for the part where mina did dracula’s accent. not sure if that’s standard but I wish we hadn’t done that

- i’m not THAT well versed in musical theater as an art form and also all art is derivative etc but i do know that wildhorn has been historically criticized for derivativeness and…… yeah! you can tell where he mimics sondheim, and it doesn’t work because you can’t casually mimic sondheim and get out alive. i can’t think of the moment but there was some bit of music I could have sworn was out of Phantom, and it’s obviously a big general inspiration. not to be Boss Baby Guy but I see a lot of Les Mis DNA in it too (what is It’s Over if not The Confrontation in a goth hat)

- the dialogue between songs is serviceable at absolute best, and it’s a shame that it’s so consistently sacrificed at the altar of moving the plot the fuck along. for the most part, only mina and dracula meaningfully connect via song, so it would be nice to use the dialogue to flesh out relationships more often. lucy and mina being besties is a highlight!!!

- ultimately i had a blast but it must needs be said: the show is not good. the best possible execution of “literally just the novel dracula but dracula and mina are having a secret tragic love affair” is probably what we get in the 1992 dracula movie, and if there’s a way to translate that to stage well, it’s not this shallow, silly speedrun. but again. this trash is my trash. the painted cardboard castle of bad dracula adaptations is where i live.

- I actually think it would be really interesting to be involved in a production only because to make these characters function in terms of acting, I think you’d have to invent and extrapolate a lot in terms of motivation and characterization to supplement the text. which would be fun for me, a person who thinks about versions of dracula characters all the time already

#dracula the musical #dracula adaptation #frank wildhorn #sorry that I cannot figure out how to add a cut on mobile #I am one dracula years old #anyway thank god they cut that song about victorian technology christ

[thenightling]

Now that Renfield is getting his own movie I think it’s time to remind Tumblr that Frank Wildhorn’s Dracula The Musical features a homoerotic song about “The Master” sung by Renfield.

These two need couples’ counseling.

#Dracula #Renfield #Bram Stoker #The Master's Song #Frank Wildhorn #Dracula the musical #Dracula das Musical

[crowreys-wormstache]

Cursed idea

A performance of Dracula, the musical, where everything is the same as usual except during There's Always a Tomorrow instead of the "I was born to love you" bits they play the chorus from I Was Made For Lovin' You by Kiss. The rest of the song goes on as usual

#but jess #you might want to ask me #jess why #and to that i say #i have no idea! But if I had to think about this so do you <3 #dracula the musical #there's always a tomorrow #i was made for lovin' you #kiss the band #musical theater #don black #christopher hampton #frank wildhorn #bram stoker #dracula #jess talks

[44ratsinatrenchcoat]

Things I don't like

-Free verse

-Jeremy Jordan

-The changed ending in Wildhorn's Dracula

#poetry #jeremy jordan #like #his voice sounds like packing peanuts being stepped on by a person with overgrown toenails #and his face looks like someone punched it #dracula #frank wildhorn #things #things i don't like

[peachy-n-bee]

I know the Dracula Daily craze has passed but I was listening to the musical soundtrack today and Y'ALL ARE SLEEPING ON THE DRACULA MUSICAL!! You're all asking for an adaption that is faithful to the book, when the musical is faithful to the book. The musical quotes the book directly in its dialogue and lyrics!! AND IT HAS QUINCEY!!

I've read Dracula, watched the various movie adaptions of Dracula, and the musical is by far my favorite!! I mean, like a lot of the other adaptions Mina has a romance with Dracula but the music absolutely fucks.

Have I mentioned the music is by Frank Wildhorn? Frank Wildhorn, who has also worked on the musicals Jekyll and Hyde, Scarlet Pimpernel, The Count of Monte Cristo, Bonnie and Clyde, and the DEATH NOTE MUSICAL! and the music slaps so hard because of FRANK WILDHORN.

#my post #dracula #dracula daily #screaming into the void #listen i've loved this musical since i was a child #i need other people to be mentally ill about it