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{{trope}}
For some reason, [[The Musical|musicals]] about [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampires]] had a huge run of popularity at the turn of the millennium. [[Genre Killer|The ones that made it to Broadway flopped]], and it's become common knowledge that '''Vampire Musicals''' don't work.
{{examples}}
* In this as in so many other things, [[Jack Kirby]] was ahead of his time. In ''Superman's Pal [[Jimmy Olsen]]'', rogue DNA Project scientist Dabney Donovan created an artificial minature planet called Transilvane and populated it with vampires and werewolves by exposing it to horror films. Superman tried to fix it by playing ''[[Oklahoma!]]''. Unfortunately we never got to see the result...▼
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* Fan made ''[[Twilight the Musical]]''. Played for laughs, though.▼
* Jim Steinman's ''Dance of the Vampires'', a [[Executive Meddling|vastly rewritten]] version of the wildly successful ''[[Tanz der Vampire]]''. It's ''horribly'' ironic that one of the most popular and profitable musicals in European history was mutated into [[Incredibly Lame Pun|the most prominent nail in the genre's coffin]].▼
* Frank Wildhorn's ''[[Dracula]]: [[The Musical]]''▼
* Elton John's ''[[The Vampire Chronicles|Lestat]]''▼
* ''Vampire's Rock'' a [[Jukebox Musical]] using the music of ''[[ACDC]]'', ''[[Guns N' Roses]]'', ''[[Led Zeppelin]]'', ''[[Bon Jovi]]'', ''[[Meat Loaf]]'', ''[[Joan Jett]]'', ''Suzi Quatro'', ''[[Queen]]'' etc. Which has the basic plot of, "The year is 2030, and the evil BARON VON ROCKULA is looking for his eternal bride!".▼
▲== [[Comics]] ==
▲* In this as in so many other things, [[Jack Kirby]] was ahead of his time. In ''Superman's Pal [[Jimmy Olsen]]'', rogue DNA Project scientist Dabney Donovan created an artificial minature planet called Transilvane and populated it with vampires and werewolves by exposing it to horror films. Superman tried to fix it by playing ''[[Oklahoma]]''. Unfortunately we never got to see the result...
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter]]''
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130922043338/http://www.barackula.com/ Barackula]''
* In ''[[Forgetting Sarah Marshall]]'', the main character wants to make a Dracula musical ''with puppets''. {{spoiler|He ends up doing it and we get to see just how awesome it really is.}}
** There actually *is* a Dracula musical with puppets, a Quebecois production that subsequently toured around Europe to blockbuster sales and is called "Dracula: Entre L'amour et La Morte". It's set in the future and there's heroin and leather and, well, puppets.
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* ''Suck: Vampires Rock'' is not exactly a musical, but it is a film about a rock band hitting it big after their bassist becomes a vampire and starts to turn the rest of the band, so obviously there are a lot of performances throughout.
* [[Rockula]], naturally.
* ''[[Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire]]'', a vampire musical snooker film.
== [[Live
* The ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]]'' [[Musical Episode]] ''Once More With Feeling'' may be the only vampire musical that has been well-received. This may be because there's really not a whole lot of vampirism driving the plot (lots of demons, sure). Spike however does open his heart about his feelings for Buffy in several songs.
* In ''[[Joan of Arcadia]]'', there was a ''[[Zombie Apocalypse|zombie]]'' musical.
* ''[[The Vampyr: A Soap Opera|The Vampyr a Soap Opera]]'', a 1992 miniseries setting an updated story to the music of Heinrich Marschner's opera ''[[Der Vampyr]]''.
== [[Theatre]] ==
* ''Dracula Spectacular''
* Vampire [[
** ''The Dracula Diary'' is modern chamber opera by Robert Moran, concerning a vampire opera diva and her hapless
* One of the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' musicals swapped out the Death Busters for Dracula.
** There were
* There is also a Dracula ballet that has been filmed as ''Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary''.
** The movie, at least, is [[Better Than It Sounds]].
* The [[Takarazuka]] has had at least two.
* Apparently, a musical based on ''[[Angel]]'' was recently{{when}} performed in Tel Aviv of all places.
* ''The Cure'', an [[Our Vampires Are Different]] musical in the 2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival.
* The original European ''[[Tanz der Vampire]]'', of course, which was wildly successful.
▲* Jim Steinman's ''Dance of the Vampires'', a [[Executive Meddling|vastly rewritten]] version of
* Lampshaded in ''[[Excited Show Title!|Gutenberg!
▲* Frank Wildhorn's ''[[Dracula]]: [[The Musical]]''
▲* [[Elton John]]'s ''[[The Vampire Chronicles|Lestat]]''.
▲* ''Vampire's Rock'' a [[Jukebox Musical]] using the music of ''[[ACDC]]'', ''[[Guns N' Roses]]'', ''[[Led Zeppelin]]'', ''[[Bon Jovi]]'', ''[[Meat Loaf]]'', ''[[Joan Jett]]'', ''Suzi Quatro'', ''[[Queen]]'' etc. Which has the basic plot of, "The year is 2030, and the evil BARON VON ROCKULA is looking for his eternal bride!".
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
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** The play was literally the above ''[[Dracula]]: [[The Musical]]''.
▲== [[Web Original]] ==
▲* Fan made [[Twilight the Musical]]. Played for laughs, though.
▲* "I Kissed a Vampire," an Internet musical available through iTunes. Probably trying to follow in the footsteps of [[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog]].
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[[Category:Vampire Tropes]]
[[Category:Musical Number Index]]
[[Category:Music Tropes]]
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