If you look up “Tanz der vampire” in wikipedia you will learn that 70% of the music for the show is recycled material. I’m not sure just how this figure is calculated but it does paint a rather distorted picture of just how much music was written for the show. Let’s take a look...
The finnish production of Tanz der vampire is closing for this season with the last performance on March 24th, so hurry op if you want to see the vampires rock in finnish. Theater Website With some good planning you can combine the trip with a visit to St. Petersburg as the theater of musical...
Last night I had the pleasure of seeing the succesful finnish version of the musical “Tanz der Vampire” in the city of Seinäjoki about 350 km north of the capitol Helsinki. Upon arrival one might wonder, why the scandinavian premiere of this musical is set in this relatively small city, but the local...
Earlier this month the finnish version of the musical “tanz der vampire” premiered in Seinäjoen kaupunginteatteri,Seinäjoki to an enthusiastic audience. Both audiences and critics praise the musical and the theater sold 11000 tickets with the first week. Looks like another succesful staging. http://www.eclipsis.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=226 http://teatterikarpanen.vuodatus.net/blog/3016086/dance-of-the-vampires/ http://ponytales-ponytales.blogspot.com/2011/09/pardon-me-but-your-teeth-are-in-my-neck.html http://somesuperfluousopinions.blogspot.com/2011/09/dancing-vampires.html
If you think of great cities of musical theater, the finnish city of Seinäjoki may not be the first one you think of, but the theater Seinäjoen Kaupunginteatteri does hold a prominent place in Finnish theater history. The theater is the setting for the Scandinavian premiere of Roman Polanski and Jim Steinman’s cultmusical Dance of...
I make it a point never to watch these terrible karaoke shows, so unfortunately I also miss out on the occasional jem, like when this young girl does this Steinman-classic justice. She performed in the danish talens show “Scenen er din” in 2006 and score max points. Mariann’s website
The Germans can’t seem to get enough of Roman Polanski and Jim Steinman’s masterpiece-musical “Tanz der Vampire”. According to the latest newsletter from Stage Entertainment, the musical is set to return to the German capitol in november. The will once again open in Teater des Westens like the previous run from 2006 to 2008. Tickets...
Jim Steimman’s wonderful songs in “Tanz der vampire” will get new audiences in September 2011 when the popular musical opens in Seinäjoki, Finland and also in St.Petersburg Russia, according to Set designer Kentaur who worked on the Hungarian and new Vienna versions.
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman’s inspirational musical, Whistle Down the Wind, will be launched on a national tour in September, marking the U.S. premiere of the revised version of the property. Harold Prince directed the show’s world premiere in 1996 in Washington, DC, but that production did not move to a wider life...
It’s been almost 4 years since “Garbo the musical” closed on Oscarstetern in Stockholm, but the show is far from forgotten. Many people are wishing that this show would get a second chance. One of these is the shows star Gunilla Backman, who has recently recorded the song “Et enkelt liv” on her new...
