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[[caption-width-right:180:[[CoversAlwaysLie A very cheerful take on the classic]]]]

'''{{Dracula}} TheMusical''' is a [[UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} Swedish]] adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic gothic horror novel. Althrough it borrows heavily from Coppola's ''Film/BramStokersDracula'', the writers actually bothered to do their research, filling the film with referances and details that only a person who had read the novel could, and hired an actual vampirologist for advice. The most notable detail is that Lucy's mother is actually in the film for the very first time! A rather unusual step is that the entire musical is narrated by Mina who is having a ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire''-esque interview with van Helsing's courious grand nephew.


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!!This film provides examples of:

* AdaptationAmalgamation: Though very loyal to the original novel, it borrows heavily from [[Creator/FrancisFordCoppola Francis Ford Coppola's]] ''Film/BramStokersDracula'' movie.
%%* AdaptationExpansion
%%* AlasPoorVillain: Dracula
%%* AnimalMotifs
* TheAntiGod: Dracula boasts that he's the Anti-God.
* ArcWords: The blood is the life.
%%* BackStory: The prologue.
%%** Seward provides some for himself and van Helsing.
%%* BedlamHouse: Dr. Seward's asylum is depicted as one of these.
%%** Especially during Renfield songnumber.
* BigNo: Dracula's reaction to Jonathan and Mina's wedding.
%%* BloodFromTheMouth
* BloodLust: The vampires show this several times.
%%** It gets Quincey killed.
%%* BreakingAndBloodsucking
%%* TheCakeIsaLie: Renfield has gotten some very false promises.
* CassandraTruth: The peasants in Transylvania beg Jonathan not to go to the castle, but he does not listen.
* ChekhovsGun: In the prologue Dracula is praying before a huge cross, throughout the rest of the musical it is always seen in the background. In the final battle, Jonathan flips it over Dracula to defeat him.
* CoversAlwaysLie: The poster seem to promise a modern day, tounge-in-check adaptation. '''Far''' from the truth.
* CrowdSong: There are two of these. First there is "Pokol" which is sung by the villigares to get Jonathan to stay with them instead of travel to Dracula's castle. The second song is sung by Londoners as Demeter arrives in London.
%%* DaywalkingVampire: Dracula
* DemotedToExtra: Averted actually! All of the characters are in the musical and are fleshed out. Mina is the one suffering from an underdeveloped realtionship with Dracula. Possibly intentional.
* DespairEventHorizon: The song line "''God had left''".
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The Vampire Sisters (the Brides) seduce and feed off the wounded Quincey and the loose Seward. TheVirgin Arthur is also seduced and van Helsing is broken by Dracula. Jonathan manages to defeat Dracula and forces Mina to stake Dracula. However since Mina has Dracula's blood in her veins, he becomes a part of her because she is the one to kill him. In present day Mina is still a vampire but has never actually feed on any one. Erik tries to perform a VanHelsingHateCrime to avenge his grandfather's brother who ended up in an Mad House but is killed by Mina who sets out to begin her own reign of terror.]]
%%* {{Dracula}}
* EatsBabies: The vampire sisters and the vampirized Lucy.
* EvilLaugh: The musical ends with one.
%%* EvilMatriarch: Mrs. Westenra
* EvilMinions: Draculas has several.
* FallenHero:
** From the Christian perspective. Dracula was once a servant of the cross.
** [[spoiler:Van Helsing]] is hinted at becoming one.
* AGodAmI: Dracula declears himself to be the "Anti God".
%%* GriefSong: "Requiem"
%%* HauntedCastle
%%* HemoErotic
* HornyDevils:
** The vampire sisters & Lucy as a vampire.
** Those weird, demon-girl things that appear during the Vampire sisters song.
%%* IAmBecomingSong: The second to last song, sung partly by Mina.
* IAmSong: The opening song the second part of the film is Abraham van Helsing introducing himself to the audience. Music/TheDoors style!
%%* IntercourseWithYou: "Carpe Noctem", and is both erotic and disturbing.
* IWantSong: Jonathan Harker sings one about all he wants now is to be with Mina. Doubles as SongsOfSolace.
* KickTheDog: When Dracula attacks the boat girl.
%%* LargeHam: Renfield touches this at some points.
* Leitmotif: The vampire hunters have their own guitar-riff. Doubles as BattleThemeMusic.
%%* MoneySong
%%* TheMusical
%%* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Dracula and the vampire sisters
%%* OffWithHisHead: Inverted. Happens off screen.
%%* OminousLatinChanting: In Romanian and Latin.
%%* OminousPipeOrgan: In the opening.
* OneWingedAngel: Dracula becomes a werewolf now and then.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Van Helsing during his song numbers.
%%* TheOphelia: Elisaveta
%%* OurVampiresAreDifferent
* PlayingATree: One scene and following song number has the dancers play furniture.
%%* TheProfessor: Van Helsing.
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: This Dracula somehow became a vampire with [[ThePowerOfHate nothing but his own hatred of God.]]
%%* {{Reincarnation}}
%%* TheRenfield: Roald Malcolm Renfield.
* RuleOfThree: Three suitors vs. three vampire sisters.
%%* ShellShockedVeteran: Seward
* ShoutOut:
** After van Helsing has held his lecture, he is chased by his students like Dr. Jones.
** One music cue sounds like it is taken out of Castlevanina.
** The vampire sisters quote ''Theatre/{{MacBeth}}''.
%%* SociopathicHero: Quinsey Morris.
%%* StakingTheLovedOne
* TheyCalledMeMad!: Renfield. In a rather chilling moment Renfield seems to be able to see the future, or at least read minds, when [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight he correctly predicts]] that Seward is going to visit Lucy and that she will not chose him as her husband.
* TragicMonster: Dracula is portrayed as one in this version due to his backstory.
%%* TruerToTheText
%%* UnreliableNarrator
%%* WallCrawl
%%* VampiresAreSexGods: The vampire sisters. Big time!
%%* VanHelsingHateCrimes: Abraham van Helsing manages to avert this. [[spoiler:But not his grand nephew Erik]].
%%* VictorianLondon
* VillainousCrush: Dracula for Mina.
* VillainSong:
** Dracula's song: "Children of the night"
*** He actually gets two VillainLoveSong, one of them a FinalLoveDuet
** [[BadGirlSong The Vampire Sister]]'s song: "[[IntercourseWithYou Carpe Noctem]]"
*** A DarkReprise is performed by Lucy
** [[SanitySlippageSong Renfield gets a song]]: " My Master, Use Me"
** Heck, even Dracula's minions gets a song. What it called? "In the Service Of the Count"
* TheVillainSucksSong: Van Helsing sings one about Dracula.
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* AGodAmI: Dracula declears himself to be the "Anti God".

* YourCheatingHeart: Mina finds herself torn between staying true to Johnathan or being with Dracula. Even finding out that the latter's the monster who killed Lucy doesn't seem to sway her. Due to the underdeveloped nature of their romance and that while being trapped in Dracula's castle Jonathan has an entire song dedicated to that is only reason for living is to escape and reunite with Mina, it makes her seem much more like a villian than Dracula.

* AdaptationExpansion
* AGodAmI: Dracula declears himself to be the AntiGod.
* AlasPoorVillain: Dracula
* AnimalMotifs

* BackStory: The prologue.
** Seward provides some for himself and van Helsing.
* BedlamHouse: Dr. Seward's asylum is depicted as one of these.
** Especially during Renfield songnumber.
* BigNo: Dracula's reaction to Jonathan and Mina's wedding
* BloodFromTheMouth

** It gets Quincey killed.
* BreakingAndBloodsucking
* TheCakeIsaLie: Renfield has gotten some very false promises.

* ChekhovsGun: In the prologue Dracula is praying before a huge cross, throught the rest of the musical it is always seen in the background. In the final battle, Jonathan flips it over Dracula to defeat him.

* DaywalkingVampire: Dracula

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The Vampire Sister's (the Brides) seduce and feed off the wounded Quincey and the loose Seward. TheVirgin Arthur is also seduced and van Helsing is broken by Dracula. Jonathan manages to defeat Dracula and forces Mina to stake Dracula. However since Mina has Dracula's blood in her veins, he becomes a part of her because she is the one to kill him. In present day Mina is still a vampire but has never actually feed on any one. Erik tries to perform a VanHelsingHateCrime to avenge his grandfather's brother who ended up in an Mad House but is killed by Mina who sets out to begin her own reign of terror.]]
* {{Dracula}}

* EvilMatriarch: Mrs. Westenra

* FallenHero: From the Christian perspective. Dracula was once a servant of the cross.
** [[spoiler:Van Helsing is hinted at becoming one]]
* GriefSong: "Requiem"
* HauntedCastle
* HemoErotic
* HornyDevils: The vampire sisters & Lucy as a vampire.
** Those weird, demon-girl thing that appear during the Vampire sisters song.
* IAmBecomingSong: The second to last song, sung partly by Mina.
* IAmSong; The opening song the second part of the film is Abraham van Helsing introducing himself to the audience. Music/TheDoors style!
* IntercourseWithYou: "Carpe Noctem", and is both erotic and disturbing.

* LargeHam: Renfield touches this at some points.
* Leitmotif: The vampire hunters have their own guitarr-riff. Doubles as BattleThemeMusic.
* MoneySong
* TheMusical
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Dracula and the vampire sisters
* OffWithHisHead: Inverted. Happens off screen.
* OminousLatinChanting: In romaninan and latin.
* OminousPipeOrgan: In the opening.
* OneWingedAngel: Dracula becomes a werewolf know and then.

* TheOphelia: Elisaveta
* OurVampiresAreDifferent
* PlayingATree: One scene and following song number has the dancer's play furniture.
* TheProfessor: Van Helsing.

* {{Reincarnation}}
* TheRenfield: Roald Malcolm Renfield.
* RuleOfThree: Three suitors vs three vampire sisters
* Shell-ShockedVeteran: Seward

* SociopathicHero: Quinsey Morris.
* StakingTheLovedOne
* TheyCalledMeMad!: Renfield.
** In a rather chilling moment Renfield seems to be able to see the future, or at least read minds, when [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight he correctly predicts]] that Seward is going to visit Lucy and that she will not chose him as her husband.

* TruerToTheText
* UnreliableNarrator
* WallCrawl
* VampiresAreSexGods: The vampire sisters. Big time!
* VanHelsingHateCrimes: Abraham van Helsing manages to avert this. [[spoiler: But not his grand nephew Erik]].
* VictorianLondon

* YourCheatingHeart: Mina finds herself torn between staying true to Johnathan or being with Dracula. Even finding out that the latter's the monster who killed Lucy doesn't seem to sway her. Due to the underdeveloped nature of their romance and that while being trapped in Dracula's castle Jonathan has an entire song dedicated to that is only reason for living is to escape and reunite with Mina, it makes her seem much more like a villian than Dracula.

'''{{Dracula}} TheMusical''' is a [[UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} Swedish]] adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic gothic horror novel. Althrough it borrows heavily from Coppola's ''Film/BramStokersDracula'', the writers actually bothered to do their research, filling the film with referances and details that only a person who had read the novel could, and hired an actual vampirologist for advice. The most notable detail is that Lucy's mother is actually in the film for the very first time! A rather unusual step is that the entire musical is narrated by Mina who is having a ''InterviewWithTheVampire''-esque interview with van Helsing's courious grand nephew.

* AwesomeMusic: Most of the songs in the musical are amazing.
** The song "Shackled at the helm", a first person account on, is beyond words.

* ActingForTwo: Most of the cast does this.

* IAmSong; The opening song the second part of the film is Abraham van Helsing introducing himself to the audience. TheDoors style!

** [[SanitySlippageSong Renfield gets a song]]: "[[UnfortunateImplications My Master, Use Me]]"

'''{{Dracula}} TheMusical''' is a Swedish adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic gothic horror novel. Althrough it borrows heavily from Coppola's ''Film/BramStokersDracula'', the writers actually bothered to do their research, filling the film with referances and details that only a person who had read the novel could, and hired an actual vampirologist for advice. The most notable detail is that Lucy's mother is actually in the film for the very first time! A rather unusual step is that the entire musical is narrated by Mina who is having a ''InterviewWithTheVampire''-esque interview with van Helsing's courious grand nephew.

* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Jonathan Harker
** TheLancer: John Seward
** TheSmartGuy/[[Mentors TheMentor]]: Abraham van Helsing
** TheBigGuy: Quincey Morris, who is actually more of TheBrute
** TheTeamBenefactor/TagalongKid: Arthur Holmwood
** SixthRangerTraitor: Mina

'''{{Dracula}} TheMusical''' is a Swedish adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic gothic horror novel. Althrough it borrows heavily from Coppola's BramStokersDracula, the writers actually bothered to do their research, filling the film with referances and details that only a person who had read the novel could, and hired an actual vampirologist for advice. The most notable detail is that Lucy's mother is actually in the film for the very first time! A rather unusual step is that the entire musical is narrated by Mina who is having a InterviewWithTheVampire-esque interview with van Helsing's courious grand nephew.

** After van Helsing has held his lecture, he is chaesed by his students like dr. Jones.

** The vampire sisters qoute MacBeth

* MusicAwesome: Most of the songs in the musical are amazing.
** The song "Shackled at the helm", a first person account on, is beyond words.
* TheMusical
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Dracula and the vampire sisters

** The Vampire Sister's song: "Carpe Noctem"

** He actually gets two VillainLoveSong, one of them a FinalLoveDuet

** TheLancer: Jack Seward
** TheSmartGuy/TheMentor: Abraham van Helsing

** TheTeamBenefactor: Arthur Holmwood