Dance of the Vampires was one of Broadway’s greatest recent flops — the $12 million show lost its entire investment after concluding a four-month run in January 2003. The show was an adaptation of a German musical that was itself based on Roman Polanski’s 1967 pulp horror film The Fearless Vampire Killers. A few translations in genre and geography later, the result was an unmitigated, campy disaster, panned for its uneven acting, over-the-top theatrics and awkward script — one song lyric goes, “Garlic, garlic/ The secret of staying young/ Garlic, garlic/ That’s why we’re so well hung.” One reviewer offered this advice to those who had already bought tickets: “You’ll probably enjoy it most if you bring low expectations. And earplugs.”
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