Dracula?

[broadwaypunk06]

Posted: 12/29/10 at 6:38pm

Who wrote the script?

[PopAria]

Posted: 12/29/10 at 11:45pm

IDK,

DraculaonStage.com


Has anyone seen it? I'm very curious as to what people are saying. I have tickets for this Sunday Mat.

[PopAria]

Posted: 12/31/10 at 2:46am

From their web site:
"Dracula by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, based on the eponymous novel by Bram Stoker."

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/31/10 at 12:27pm

Its pretty dreadful... Drekula is more like it. The sets are cheesy, the SPFX (if you want to call them that!) are terrible, George hearn kept flubbing his lines, Emily Bridges as Lucy is awful. i bet Thora Burch is THRILLED to have been let go.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 12/31/10 at 1:03pm

It's cheesy, clean fun.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 1/5/11 at 7:06pm

Officially opens tonight.

I am more interested because of the supporting cast George Hearn and Timothy Jerome in an off-Broadway production?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/5/11 at 7:45pm

Any reviews yet?!

[dkellergrl]

Posted: 1/5/11 at 9:18pm

AM NY - http://www.amny.com/urbanite-1.812039/theater-review-dracula-no-stars-1.2589190

NJ Newsroom - http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/movies/review-dracula-revival-looks-doa

[Luv2goToShows]

Posted: 1/5/11 at 9:40pm

Ouch on those reviews

[jsg03jd]

Posted: 1/5/11 at 10:30pm

The New York Times/Charles Isherwood slams George Hearn. :o(

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/theater/reviews/06dracula.html

ABC News panned it as well:

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=12550925

Updated On: 1/5/11 at 10:30 PM

[TimesSquareRegular]

Posted: 1/5/11 at 11:23pm

When the opening night audience (with many empty seats) can only muster up polite applauseat the final curtain, you know something's wrong.

I was there tonight, and while I wasn't really bored, it was a bit of a slog, with nothing to particularly recommend it and many aspects that deserve some severe criticism. Here's an instance when you can believe the reviews.

[jsg03jd]

Posted: 1/6/11 at 1:28am

Another harsh review this time from the New York Post:

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/theater/fangs_for_nothing_dracula_T2mkGPui1EVTap70FZNxuO

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/6/11 at 7:22am

Looks like it is down for the Count

Sunlight,crosses & holy water have done it in.

[hockeynut2]

Posted: 1/6/11 at 7:45am

Richard Seff reviews the show on DC Theatre Scene and likes it.
Richard Seff reviews Dracula on DCTS

[TimesSquareRegular]

Posted: 1/6/11 at 9:50am

That's a "likes it" review?????? when it concludes:

"Actors are marvelous creatures. I’m proud to have been one of them, and I continue to enjoy their company as a member of their audience, even when they are out there, on their own, in a turbulent sea without paddle. Somehow they survive, and you are pleased to cheer them on during their final bows, hoping they know the applause is for them, not for the doomed ship on which they sail."

Updated On: 1/6/11 at 09:50 AM

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 1/6/11 at 12:42pm

Why they would revive this show without the amazing Edward Gorey sets is beyond me.
Sounds like a train wreck.

[jsg03jd]

Posted: 1/6/11 at 1:55pm

That DC Theatre Scene review gives a backhanded compliment at best to actors in general who are stuck in crap shows, not even the specific actors in DRACULA, some of whom have received varying degrees of slams from other reviewers.

I still don't understand why anyone would revive this show in the first place in this age of TRUE BLOOD, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, TWILIGHT etc. And the "special effects" sound so ghetto based on the reviews. Who'd wanna see that?

[dkellergrl]

Posted: 1/7/11 at 3:13pm

More behind the scenes drama, surrounding this production.

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/theater/dracula_debt_on_arrival_pmMluWJcOtlIfqvDCaj9OJ

Financially, the show was in trouble from the start. Alexander Morr, the 76-year-old producer who managed Broadway shows years ago, came up with a budget fit for a show produced in, say, 1975.

"It was the craziest thing you ever saw," a source says. "We just laughed, it was so far off the mark."

"Dracula" came together at the last minute, and the designers say they scrambled to build sets, buy costumes, create wigs and gather props. They laid out their own money -- in some cases thousands of dollars -- but when they tried to get reimbursed, they say Morr stonewalled them.

"When I confronted him, he told me, 'Sometimes in life, you just have to bend over and take it,' " says fight coordinator Sordelet.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/7/11 at 6:25pm

This sounds like an Ed Wood movie. I think it may close before I can see it as it sounds to dreadful to miss.

TDF was offering tickets for a ton of dates. Now it is only thru 1/9 adding fuel to the rumor it is closing Sunday.

Updated On: 1/7/11 at 06:25 PM

[Luv2goToShows]

Posted: 1/7/11 at 7:13pm

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Rialto_Chatter_DRACULA_To_Close_This_Weekend_20110107

Message sent out to ticket winners:

I'm sorry to inform you that the New York production of Dracula will be closing this Sunday. The tickets you won are for dates beyond Jan. 9, so I'm letting you know in case it's possible for you to attend one of the final performances. These are Friday Jan 7 at 8 pm, Saturday Jann 8 at 2:30 and 8 pm, and Sunday Jan 9 at 2:30 and 7 pm. Please let me know. Thank you and sorry for the disappointment.

[jsg03jd]

Posted: 1/7/11 at 7:42pm

And good ol' John Simon helps hammer one of the final nails to DRACULA's coffin:

http://yonkerstribune.typepad.com/yonkers_tribune/2011/01/eye-on-theatre-dracula-by-john-simon.html

BTW - can anyone remember the last time such across the board negative reviews were published for a single show? The first show that comes to mind is GOOD VIBRATIONS. Brantley didn't even name the actors so as to spare them the embarrassment, IIRC, when his review in the Times came out.

[theatreguy]

Posted: 1/8/11 at 1:22am

And here's David Cote's take on it:

http://newyork.timeout.com/arts-culture/theater/678689/dracula

The best lines:
"Michel Altieri takes on the title role, making him the first person since Ezra Pound to fly from Italy to America expressly to be humiliated in public."

"Suffice it to say that the smoke machine gives the most consistent and believable performance."

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 1/8/11 at 1:33am

It's weird. That Michel Altieri seems to be quite esteemed with a load of awards. Too bad his talent got squandered on this.

Does the Bridges girl have crossed eyes. All the opening night photos make her appear to be cross-eyed.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/8/11 at 11:35am

Screw recording Pee Wee & Sondheim. Record this.This is one show I will regret not seeing just to revel in its pure wretchedness. Sounds like it makes Moose Murders look like Hamlet by comparison.

Updated On: 1/8/11 at 11:35 AM

[jsg03jd]

Posted: 1/8/11 at 10:48pm

"[T]o revive Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston’s creaky, dusty 1927 melodrama, Dracula, makes zero sense." Thank you, David Cote. My thoughts exactly.

I'm still wondering the last time the critics all came out and staked one show as badly they've done with this off-Broadway production of DRACULA.