I’ve watched “Dracula, The Musical” and it’s the first (out of five!) Wildhorn’s musical that didn’t make me cry – so, what the hell? I came here specially, for crying. Every musical before had at least one and most of the time two songs which squeezed a tear out of me, but here – nothing. Probably you just can’t make a thrilling musical out of such a boring book. By the way, reading the book (the first half of it, but still) helped me dearly to understand the plot, because otherwise, I’d probably be still wondering: “What the hell, there was a guy eating flies?”. Okay, they tried to make it a little more interesting than in the book, I would even say they tried to make a little more “Tanz der Vampire”-ish (this vampire musical appeared a few years earlier, so…) – (Spoilers!) they made Mina fall in love with the Count and him fall in love with her too so that he, not wanting the life of a vampire for her, asks her to kill him and she does and mourns him at the end. I checked – in the book, Harper and Quincey kill Dracula, and Mina was being a vampire and controlled by the count for a short time. By the way, getting back to the music, “The Heart is Slow to Learn” sounds so much like “His Eyes” and “Someone like you” (from “Jekyll and Hyde”) and “If I Could Fly” also sounds so familiar, but I can’t name a particular piece it reminds me of… Probably, I should stop listening to Wildhorn’s musicals for some time…
Cant wait until VH shows up in Dracula bc I have a VH fic Im working on and at this rate it’s gonna be done by then and I’m SO excited to unleash it on everyone
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