Congrats to Dracula in Switzerland

[umgeoboy]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 4:25pm

Congrats to the cast of Dracula in Switzerland. The show opened to complete raves and is now mostly sold out!

https://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=3063

Updated On: 5/9/05 at 04:25 PM

[Flight0017]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 5:30pm

That's wonderful news. All the best to the production!

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 5:32pm

I like how the European theatre community is so small. You can basically predict who's going to be in the next show...

[G]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 5:47pm

Well, there's a surprise that the Germans love stuff like that.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 6:04pm

My opinion of the German Press is now at an apex. Smart chaps, at least as far as theater is concerned

[Yonah]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 6:17pm

Frank Wildhorn's Dracula is one of my pet obsessions. I'm glad to see it seems to be doing better in Switxerland than it did in the states. :)

I hope, I hope, I *hope* that a recording is made of the Swiss show!

Chi

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 6:28pm

Is Switzerland now in Germany?

[trpguyy]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 7:18pm

No, Germany is not in Switzerland, but St. Gallen is. Read the article, folks...

"The production in St. Gallen, Switzerland includes half a dozen songs...."

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 7:43pm

Any pictures anywhere?

[umgeoboy]

Posted: 5/9/05 at 7:07pm

No pictures yet, but there are now planning for further european productions. Hopefully it will find its way to london and see how it does there.

[umgeoboy]

Posted: 5/9/05 at 7:20pm

Yes there are pictures if you go to fanphotos. I have thumbnails from a bunch of the pics. The site was in german otherwise I would direct you to where I found them.

[umgeoboy]

Posted: 5/9/05 at 7:22pm

ok i tried to post them here but have no idea how to...just got to my fan photos unless someone wants to tell me how to post a pic...

Updated On: 5/9/05 at 07:22 PM

[Elphaba's girl]

Posted: 5/28/05 at 6:30am

there are looooooots of pics already out there...
just check for example:

http://www.ann-christin-elverum.de/
http://www.koenschoots.de/1995.html
http://www.matthias-davids.de/
http://chris-murray.de/noflash/html/f-dracula01.html
http://www.musicals-unlimited.de/st_gallen/dracula/premiere.html
http://www.musical-time.com/musical-time/berichte/dracula.htm
http://www.musical-cast.de/presse/berichte/dracula_050423.html
http://www.martin-pasching-club.de/
http://www.thatsmusical.de/index.php?content=04berichte/116draculawildhorn.htm
http://www.tagblattmedien.ch/index.jsp?ressort=service/fotoalbum/dracula
http://www.drewsarich-page.net/dracula.html


hopefully there will be a recording...it's not clear yet :o/
and there have been a lot of changes in the show - they didn't only copy your American version so please don't judge the "german taste" :-p
Dracula is certainly not the best musical ever written but I had a wonderful night there...it was really great! The cast is simply a dream ... <3
[only the costumes are quite ugly :o( ]

[cathywellerstein]

Posted: 5/28/05 at 12:16pm

Congrats for Dracula! i wish it could have done well in a country i live in...

[queenie2]

Posted: 5/28/05 at 12:17pm

Thomas Borchert as Dracula is great!

[exedore]

Posted: 5/28/05 at 2:55pm

Drew Sarich is in this? I feel an urge to travel to Switzerland now...

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/28/05 at 3:07pm

mmmm... Jesper Tydén is a hottie. that makes three for three now for each production having hot Harkers... hmmm... hot Harkers... what the hell...

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/28/05 at 3:30pm

also the Swiss songlist really isn't THAT different from what played on Broadway. "Nosferatu" and "The Invitation" are reinstated though which helps a lot I'm sure as they are both awesome songs but the first real "change" so to speak doesn't come until the tenth song when Dracula sings a new tune: "Loving You Keeps Me Alive" which takes place after "A Perfect Life". "The Heart Is Slow To Learn" has been replaced with "Please, Don't Make Me Love You" and "If I could Fly" has been translated as "If I Had Wings". Those are really the only differences. I'd say they still need to replace "Forever Young" with the original "First Taste" and "Whitby Bay" needs to be some kind of hybrid "Whitby Bay/One More Lonely Night" as the lyrics for "One More Lonely Night" were a bit more tolerable than "Whitby Bay"... but who knows what the book and lyrics are actually like now that they've been translated ... it's hard to judge based on their English counterparts what liberties were taken by the translator...

[devonian.t]

Posted: 5/28/05 at 3:34pm

Hey those Germans sure have great taste: first Dance of the Vampires and now Dracula. Oh and the longest running production of Starlight Express.

Hmmm...

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/28/05 at 3:42pm

was "great taste" supposed to be a pun? cuz' I'm laughing...

[devonian.t]

Posted: 5/28/05 at 3:54pm

fangs a lot

(I'll stop now)