"Roman Polanksi’s original and highly successful theatre production is given a new life with an international creative team on the stage of the Magyar Theatre by PS Productions.Following its debut in Vienna in 1997 audiences in Stuttgart, Hamburg, Warsaw and Berlin have been amazed by this acid-tongued, unusual, spectacular and mind-blowing, energetic musical explosion. So far over 5 million people across the world have seen this vampire parody and it has something of a cult following. The fantastic score by Jim Steinman faithfully follows the story dreamt up by Polanksi. Michael Kunze’s lyrics poetically conjure up the macabre and grotesque anti-world of the vampires.
Address: 4, Hevesi Sándor tér, 7th district, Budapest
Leading director: Roman Polanski
Director: Cornelius Baltus
Composer: Jim Steinman
Lyrics and songs: Michael Kunze
Choreographer: Dennis Callahan
Set and costume designer: Kentaur
Lighting designer: Chris Ellis
Hungarian translation: Tibor Miklós
Musical Supervisor: Bernd Steixner
Art director: Balázs Póka
Producer: Edit Simon
Conductor: Géza Köteles
Assistant to the director: Eszter Hajós
Assistant to the choreographer: Kati Heidebrecht
The story is set at the end of the nineteenth century in the snowy wilds of Transylvania. Fearless vampire hunter Professor Abronsius and his young assistant Alfred are on the trail of vampires. They arrive at Chagal’s Inn where garlic hangs everywhere. The villagers are unaware that the nearby castle is inhabited by vampires even though their liking of garlic borders on obsessive.
The romantic and sensitive Alfred falls in love with the inn-keeper’s daughter who harbours similar feelings for him. The girl’s innocently enchanting singing attracts the attention of vampire Count Krolock, who invites Sarah to the ball in the castle where she develops a yearning for the vampires’ immortal world. This unquenchable desire brings about many exciting complications, spiced up by the humorous adventures of the bumbling vampire hunters.
Further planned performances:
21-31 August 2008.
31 December 2008. 15 January 2009."
Ticket prices: 3900-9900 Ft
Further information:
Vampire's Ball website
Vampires Direct: 0630 647 44 22
Source: budapestinfo.hu
18.08.2008