Dracula

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 6/5/05 at 8:57pm

It should be sweeping the Tony's Unfortunately, it was not nominated

[Thenardier]

Posted: 6/5/05 at 8:59pm

It should have won lighting - which was better than Piazza.

Maybe sets.

But - at least there was a nice video clip

[ticenewyorkcity]

Posted: 6/5/05 at 11:49pm

the only thing that show should have won was Kelie's first Tony. She was simply brilliant....

[WildhornFanatic]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 12:11am

Poor Frank.

[etoile]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 12:33am

Dracula's stake in its heart was its book. Who would have thought that classic story would have been so hard to sit through? Perhaps it never should have been set to music.. And though I enjoy Wildman, I don't think it was near his best. I feel the show suffered from an early closing. I suspect many Tony voters never saw it.

[Thenardier]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 12:34am

It seems Wildhorn spent years and years and years working and perfecting J&H and only a few years with Dracula.

[WildhornFanatic]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 12:36am

Bingo Thenardier.

It seems his best versions of all of his shows were the versions never on Broadway.

Best version of:
JEKYLL AND HYDE - Houston, 1995 version
SCARLET PIMPERNEL - version 2.0 (okay...this was on Bway)
CIVIL WAR - 2 disc set
DRACULA - La Jolla version

[Thenardier]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 12:41am

I agree.

I fear that his problem is the critics slam him so in order for him to get a show produced he needs to let the producers make a lot of decisions - not necessarily beneficial to the show.

[WildhornFanatic]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 2:38pm

Ah ha. I see.

[umgeoboy]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 3:01pm

wildhornfanatic his actually best version of dracula is supposedly the version that is in europe right now. He took all aspects of the la jolla version and expanded it. It opened to rave reviews and is supposedly the best version of the show.

[umgeoboy]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 3:07pm

by the way if anyone is interested there are pictures of the swiss cast of dracula in my fan photos.

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 3:17pm

from what i heard from my mom about dracula was that the music sucked itself but the sets were amazing as well as the lighting.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 3:33pm

I love the German cast recording of Scarlet Pimpernel, but than the broadway cast recording, listened to it driving to and back from LA eysterday...love it

[juice23]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 3:43pm

I really dont like the look of that swiss production.... everythings so ugly and cheap looking... they should have kept the design from bway and just changed the show around. I lvoed the look of the bway show... costumes lighting, sets. it was really beautiful to look at.

[hak]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 9:05pm

DRACULA was horribble. i can't see how anyone liked it.

[WildhornFanatic]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 11:12pm

The music was beautiful. The book and lyrics were horrendous.

[Thenardier]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 11:13pm

I love the music.

<--Look


I think the Swiss production looks like a wild Safari.

[WildhornFanatic]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 11:18pm

Nice pic. I feel like a moron but how do u add a pic to your name?

[Thenardier]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 11:22pm

go to "your settings" under SITe (on the right side).

IT syas "add picture" or w.e.

[WildhornFanatic]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 11:23pm

Thank you!

[TimesSquareRegular]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 11:33pm

If there was some way to do a 20-minute orchestral suite and just run the sets and lights, they could have had a hit - and they could have done "performances" every hour.

Really, though - somehow they managed to make Dracula boring, but those sets were worth the experience.

[Thenardier]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 11:34pm

I enjoyed Drax more than Spamalot - and I'm a Python fan - but I am a bigger Dracula (the novel) fan

[Up In Lost]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 11:39pm

This is slightly off topic, but to those of you who saw Dracula? How was Darren Ritchie?

[WildhornFanatic]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 11:43pm

Darren was good. He wasn't stand out amazing, but he definitely wasn't bad. His voice was nothing great - too popish for the score. Yes, I know Wildhorn writes pop scores, but DRACULA was not as much pop oriented as his other shows. Darren seemed to make his voice more pop oriented which made him sound silly...especially during "Over Whitby Bay." He sounded beautiful during "Before the Summer Ends" however.
Updated On: 6/6/05 at 11:43 PM

[Up In Lost]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 11:45pm

I'm not familiar with show, except for the fact he was in it. I loved him in Little Shop, so I was just curious. He wasn't really popish in LSoH, but he definately sounded like he could go pop. Thanks so much.