History YMMV / TanzderVampire

** Koukol looks quite a lot like Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame. Drew Sarich (Krolock) wound up originating Quasi in the first German-language production of the stage show.

* UnfortunateImplications:
** [[spoiler:Vampire Chagal and Magda becoming a couple,]] when she was clearly uncomfortable with his advances [[spoiler:while they were alive.]] "Geil zu sein ist komisch" may induce cringing with its talk of humans only being an animal with a natural instinct for sex.
** Even if the DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale is omitted via some of Herbert's actors playing him as genuinely infatuated with Alfred but simply poorly socialized, the Professor still victim-blames by asking whether Alfred provoked Herbert, checking whether Alfred has a hard-on with a ''magnifying glass'' aimed at Alfred's crotch, and being dismissive when an indignant Alfred insists that it was all Herbert.
** All of this is especially unfortunate in light of Creator/RomanPolanski [[note]]who directed Film/TheFearlessVampireKillers and played Alfred in the movie[[/note]] being a fugitive for his statutory rape charge.

* EarWorm:
** "Dies irae Kyrie, libera me domine. Dies irae Kyrie, requiem da domine..." It is made worse by the fact that those two lines have the same melody and are repeated again and again.
** "Sei berit! Manchmal in der Nacht fühl' ich mich einsam und traurig, Doch ich weiß nicht, was mir fehlt..." Just try listening to the original "Total Eclipse of the Heart" without hearing "Totale Finsternis" in the back of your head.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Does Krolock really have some feelings for Sarah and is genuinely guilty of making her one of the undead, but is unable to resist, and turns her for her to become his companion? Or does he just see Sarah as food and is he just clinging to what he thinks is left of his humanity out of boredom, or because he wants to believe he can still feel, and in the end, just gives into his vampire nature and bites Sarah as a metaphorical rape? ''Is'' he still clinging to his humanity, or is "Die unstillbare Gier" a charade?

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Does Krolock really have some feelings for Sarah and is genuinely guilty of making her one of the undead, but is unable to resist, and turns her for her to become his companion? Or does he just see Sarah as food and is he just clinging to what he thinks is left of his humanity out of boredom, or because he wants to believe he can still feel, and in the end, just gives into his vampire nature and bites Sarah in a way it becomes literally some metaphor for rape?

* WTHCastingAgency: The Vienna 20th anniversary and St. Petersburg makeup makes Krolock considerably younger - Mark Seibert and Christoph Apfelbeck, particularly, look spectacularly unconvincing as father and son. [[note]]The actors have a 8-year age gap between them.[[/note]] But then, they're ''immortal''. [[FridgeBrilliance It might as well be an in-universe clue that the Krolocks aren't human.]]

* ReplacementScrappy: Since he got rid of a character, instead of being a different version of an old one Boris got a lot of hate from fans.

* EarWorm: "Dies irae Kyrie, libera me domine. Dies irae Kyrie, requiem da domine..." It is made worse by the fact that those two lines have the same melody and are repeated again and again.

** In "Knoblauch" Chagal sings that garlic turns old men into Romeos. A few lines later, Alfred enters - in the first Vienna revival, played by Lukas Perman, fresh off his role as Romeo in ''Theatre/RomeoEtJulietteDeLaHaineEtLamour''. With Marjan Shaki (Sarah) as his Julia.

* ChaoticEvil: The vampires in general. As Herbert and Magda put it:
--> ''"Our order is chaos! To change means to destroy!''
--> ''We want to live for our greed and belong to the predators!"''

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: "Für Sarah". Even if, as an audience member, you're screaming things at him like "This is ridiculous - she doesn't deserve you!", "You idiot, you're gonna get yourself killed!" and, if you've seen the show before, "Come on, even Herbert would be a better match for you!"
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "Carpe Noctem", which features three groups singing two languages for ten minutes, and "Der Tanz der Vampire".

** Both of the leading men of Theatre/PhantomOfTheOpera went on to originate the role of Graf/Count von Krolock, Michael Crawford (the Phantom) on Broadway and Steve Barton (Raoul, vicomte de Chagny) in Vienna. The leading ladies of ''Phantom'' and ''Tanz'' are brunette ingénues associated with the name Sarah (Christine Daaé, played by Sarah Brightman, and the character Sarah Chagal.) Crawford's production ''tanked'', whereas Barton's production was successful, award-winning, and has spawned multiple international versions and German revivals. Guess the universe supports Team Raoul, after all.

* HoYay: It's implied that Alfred isn't quite as freaked out by Herbert as he lets on when the Professor looks at Alfred's crotch after the incident with Herbert and announces "I see how things stand!"

** Koukol looks quite a lot like [[Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame]]. Drew Sarich (Krolock) wound up originating Quasi in the German-language production.

** All of this is especially unfortunate in light of Creator/RomanPolanski [[note]]director of Film/TheFearlessVampireKillers[[/note]] being a fugitive for his statutory rape charge.

* WTHCastingAgency: The Vienna 20th anniversary and St. Petersburg makeup makes Krolock considerably younger - Mark Seibert and Christoph Apfelbeck, particularly, look spectacularly unconvincing as father and son. [[note]]The actors have a 8-year age gap between them.[[/note]] [[FridgeBrilliance But then, they're ''immortal''. It might as well be an in-universe clue that the Krolocks aren't human.]]

* HilariousInHindsight: Both of the leading men of Theatre/PhantomOfTheOpera went on to originate the role of Graf/Count von Krolock, Michael Crawford (the Phantom) on Broadway and Steve Barton (Raoul, vicomte de Chagny) in Vienna. The leading ladies of ''Phantom'' and ''Tanz'' are brunette ingénues associated with the name Sarah (Christine Daaé, played by Sarah Brightman, and the character Sarah Chagal.) Crawford's production ''tanked'', whereas Barton's production was successful, award-winning, and has spawned multiple international versions and German revivals. Guess the universe supports Team Raoul, after all.

* NeverLiveItDown: Herbert calls Alfred "mon cheri" exactly once. In many fanfictions Herbert seems to be unable to call Alfred anything else.

** An English-language version of ''Carpe Noctem'', titled ''Seize the Night'', was recorded by MeatLoaf in 2006.

** As [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanz_der_Vampire#Songs the other wiki]] points out, about 70% of the musical score written by Jim Steinman was recycled from his earlier projects, mainly from his less-known shows written in the late Sixties and early Seventies before he abandoned theater to work with MeatLoaf. As the Loaf himself says in his autobiography of Jim's songwriting process for albums, "The way Jim works on an album is this: First he recycles stuff that's either been lying around or, often, songs he's used elsewhere in another form. [...] Steinman regurgitates the older material, then he writes three or four new songs, and that makes the album new. When he has the content down, then the album is ready to be recorded." That's pretty much what happened here. Steinman even speaks at the link provided of having written the score in a month, which would be near impossible for an established theater composer without recycling (or at least going through a few more drafts later in the process).

* UnfortunateImplications:
** Magda ending up with Chagal after being turned into a vampire could imply that if you harass a woman long enough, she'll eventually give you want you want...
** Also, it depends on the actress, but some who play Sarah as if she knows exactly what she's doing all along brings the implication that in order for Sarah to get freedom, or to do whatever she wants, when she wants to, she's willing to become a vampire and therefore kill people in the process... Ouch.

* CoveredUp: Again, and one that wasn't in the original. Large sections of "God Has Left The Building" (the opening vampires' dance) are taken from "The Opening Of The Box" from Steinman's project Pandora's Box. (Which was also the group that gave us "Gott Ist Tot".)

* EvenBetterSequel: A lot of the fandom considers the Hungarian version to be better than the original, mainly because of the more dramatic props, costumes, and staging changes.

* UnfortunateImplicatons: