Another Dracula, Another Flop

This week Warner Brothers joined the Walt Disney company in attempting to transform Broadway out of a venue with a whisper of hope for societal value into one which presents works which are the intellectual equal of Mickey Mouse caper.

If Disney could do it with, by way of example, The Lion King, why couldnt Warner Brothers find a property to attain Broadway fame and luck with? Unfortunately, their imaginations never soared higher than redoing the Dracula legend, based on a contemporary writers odd novelistic take on it.

So as to hew to Disneys proven route to moronic megabucks, Warner hired the identical songwriting team Disney did for The Lion King, Elton John and his relatively invisible lyricist Bernie Taupin.

Luckily, the series was a no-go from the start. The word of mouth has been catastrophic and the testimonials proven to produce the word of mouth sound brilliant.

The question is, why would anybody, given that the whole world of properties to select from or, on a crazy wager, actually to create a completely original one, select the tired and immaterial legend of Dracula?

As we of state about trying to function with a notion that doesnt appear to have a life of its own, you can stand up a dead person, but you cant make it sing and dance, also, as soon as you let go, its bound to fall down.