#I enjoy select songs from Dracula and Lestat but overall I think they are very weak products

[summercourtship]

I don't necessarily think that a vampire musical wouldn't work on Broadway, which seems to be the general conclusion people have when they talk about vampire musicals. They don't think that American audiences will respond to it, or that American audiences don't want sincerity or that they hate melodrama. I disagree. If American audiences didn't like melodrama, Phantom of the Opera would've closed real quickly. What I do think is that the musical needs to be good. And the problem is that a lot of the vampire musicals that made it to Broadway were bad. They failed because they are either boring (Wildhorn's Dracula and Lestat), or they let Michael Crawford ruin it (Tanz der Vampire/Dance of the Vampires).

If American audiences can accept and enjoy the Founding Fathers rapping or singing dancing cats, they can accept vampires on Broadway.

You just gotta make it good. I'm begging you. Please.

(Also, I don't believe that a musical needs to make it to Broadway to be considered a success- if a vampire musical did well regionally or off-Broadway, that would still be a huge win in my book! But the spectacle I personally want from a vamp musical kinda needs a Broadway budget lol.)

(Also also- I know that Cats came out in a very different time on Broadway, but my point still stands: make a decent enough product, and people will see it. And they'll tell their friends about it!)