"Tanz der Vampire" comes to St.Petersburg

Описание: 24 August 2011, St.Petersburg, 100 TV Channel
Original link - http://www.tv100.ru/news/V-Peterburge...
In the theatre of Musical comedy has started stage rehearsals, perhaps, the most ambitious project of a new season. Here is produced a famous musical of Roman Polanski "Tanz der Vampire". Stage rehearsals it's not just dances and singing in costumes. First of all it's tuning of very complicated scenic design. Musical, produced by the legendary film of Roman Polanski "Fearless Vampire Killers", tries to save all the cinematographic effects. That's why here are 75 changes of the sets, more than 120 costumes. Large-scale project for 14 years is traveling round the world. For it appears in small S.Petersburg theatre, required such a technological trick.
Cornelius Baltus, the director:
"You can see, we pull the stage out closer to the auditorium and build it onto, so that people could be closer to the story. In a little theatre like this, it is a big problem to compose so many moving elements, repair everything. But then again the story of the vampires become intimate, audience could sink into this. And we produce the show by such a wonderful book."
Actors try on costumes. Vampires were searched for for the Ball not only in St.Petersburg, but in Moscow and abroad. It's really a new genre for our soloists, and demands of the producting team are very high. All the more so it turns to be not so comfortable to sing with a vampire's grin.
Alexander Sukhanov, actor:
"It's hard, but we try to make the right effect".
"Tanz der Vampire" is a feast of hearing. A composer Jim Steinman combined here classic and rock. And one of the main melodies received the "Grammy" Award. But for St.Petersburg audience, perhaps, it will be more interesting to learn, what the vampires sing about. All the more so that they will sing in Russian.
Cornelius Baltus, the director:
"First of all, it's not a horror film, it's a comedy. A professor and his young assistant Alfred are looking for real vampires in a small village in Carpathians. And find them. Alfred fell in love with a daughter of an innkeeper. But the main vampire Krolock fall in love with her. He invites Sarah in a vampires' castle, arrange a ball for her and seduce. In the end people escape from vampires, but what will happen after this you should see with your own eyes".