- Tanz der Vampire - Elisabeth (a literal personification of Death haunts this musical about the historical Habsburg dynasty and Empress Elisabeth of Austria) - Sweeney Todd - The Phantom of the Opera - Carrie - The Rocky Horror Show - Jekyll & Hyde (my favorite version of this was the one that played in Bremen, Germany with Ethan Freeman and Vienna, Austria with Thomas Borchert)
Sweeney Todd is tremendous fun, though you'd have to be warned in advance about how gory it can get. Rest in peace, Angela Lansbury, the original Mrs Lovett.
I would also love to turn people on to the recent Canadian musical RIDE THE CYCLONE which is basically _Our Town_ by way of RL.Stine's _Goosebumps._ It's about six teenagers who died in a roller-coaster accident, but is by turns tragic, hilarious, life affirming, and sometimes downright spooky. The ramshackle carnival vibe is incredible with ghostly coloratura sung by a headless Jane Doe and narration by a mechanical fortune-telling booth. Musical styles go all over the map as the teens recount their lives and short-circuited aspirations. It's is unexpectedly _not_ a wallow in depression, but an exultant celebration of life.
What makes Beetlejuice so amazing to me is that it is one of very few adapted musicals that is even better than the original source material, I'm sad that the show has had such a rocky history but it deserves all the success it's had. Long live Beetlejuice!
I enjoy the beetlejuice musical very much, but I personally can't say I find it to be an improvement (though, I am certainly not trying to discount your views!!) What elements particularly do you find the musical to have improved on the original?? I think that while it is pretty cool that beetlejuice has an expanded back story, and Lydia has a more development journey, the musical misses a few important parts for me. Just curious on another's perspective 😁
No other musical has such a special place in my heart like Beetlejuice does. Its such an amazing show. Ive never been able to see it in person (im european) but it has still absolutely become my favorite musical. The world it creates with amazing lighting and effects and acting and music is MAGICAL
I was seated in the "Blood Zone" of an Evil Dead production. It was one of the most fun shows I have seen. Especially with the way that production did it; they used some blood here and there throughout the show, and near the end you were kind of disappointed with the 10 drops of blood on you. But then, at the very end, there's a full 3 minutes of bloodbath that left people absolutely soaked. It was amazing
I sat in the Blood Zone of a production as well, and it was Halloween, so I was dressed as Herbert West, Re-Animator. My dad was not happy that I got fake blood on his lab coat.
And if it is, have the framing device be Count Olaf’s theatre troupe putting on the show. Have it open something like this: Count Olaf comes onstage and says: Why, hello hello hello, my lovely audience. Welcome to the Count Olaf Theatre Troupe production of A Series of Unfortunate Events! First, we have a note the playwright requested me to read. He’s a great man, one….. LeeMone SneeKeet? Must be foreign. Ahem: “It is my humble duty, a word which here means obligation”- why does he write it like that? Anyway, “to inform you that you will probably not enjoy tonight’s performance”- HEY! “Due to the disturbing content.” Ohhhhhh. “No matter how much the”- ahem- extremely handsome, good-looking and talented actor playing the villain- “may seem to detract from that, detract here meaning take away from, if you enjoy happy stories with happy endings, now is your chance to request a refund.” We will not fulfill that request, by the way! We, um, already spent the ticket money on the show itself. Anyway, enough doom and gloom! I would like to request that all phones be turned off or set to the “completely silent, including vibration” mode, and that all photos, videos, audio recordings, legal pads used by reporters to find incriminating evidence, and VFD spyglasses be turned off as well! And one more thing! This is a work of fiction! Though I share the wonderful name Count Olaf with the villain, Olaf is just a common count name! And I don’t have a tattoo of an- AHHH! I, ahem, only have a tattoo of an eye on my ankle because that’s in vogue! Yeah, that’s why! I am quite a good person in real life, and I am not planning on burning down your house and stealing your fortune, you MISERABLE ORPHANS! Ahem, anyway enjoy the show! (He walks offstage.) You think they suspected my genius plot? Um, they do now. Your mic’s still on. AAAHHHH!
I love Little Shop of Horrors. Both the 80s film and the musicals are great. Another horror musical i love is a movie called 'Repo! Genetic Opera'. Its kind of a cult classic like Rocky Horror Picture show but for the 00s. It also started as a limited stage play musical before it became a film.
German Dance of the Vampires is one of my favorite musicals and is still running in germany. It celebrated 25 years on stage this year. It's still fantastic and funny and pompous, and we still refuse to talk about the american version ever over here.
Total eclipse of the sun was originally written for a different vampire property, but when it fell through Jim released it as a single so then when he got to work on Dance de vampire later he was like "Huh? I already did it?" And I love that for him. The german version is easy to find and my favourite
Jim Steinman reused material *all the time.* My favorite song of his, Original Sin, ended up getting something like four different recordings that he was involved with, including a version with revised lyrics for the 1994 The Shadow movie soundtrack, and it was reworked for Tanz as well.
The moment the music hits, you know it is a Jim Steinman show. Overblown singing, dramatic music and a Gothic sensibility to the lyrics, all are his hallmarks. And I love it to pieces.
I had never heard of evil dead until it was one of the shows we designed in my costume design class! the music is SO fun, and (for my fellow tech theatre people) there is so much unique rigging, puppetry, and nonsense you can put together! i would also like to see a full video on tanz der vampire because that whole story is w i l d
Fun video. But I can’t believe “Sweeney Todd” didn’t make the list. I saw it on Broadway in 1979 (thank you Miss Lansbury), and remember feeling the whole audience tense up as Mr. Todd applied his razor to Pirelli’s throat.
What I love about the stage production of Little Shop is that the Aliens( Audrey 2) win. Humanity is not saved. The plants take over. I think it has far more powerful message than the movie does.
Watching the UA-cam clip of Mrs Danvers burning manderly at the finale of Rebecca makes the fact that it never made it to broadway a tragedy. Although there was a recent revival in Germany. Maybe legitimate producers will finally make the transfer
Tanz is my favorite musical hands down. The great music and beautiful decor, costumes and how it's funny but it doesn't see itself as joke. Now the Broadway version IS a joke🤣
It is entirely this channel's fault that I fell in love with Beetlejuice and will be travelling from Aus to NYC in January just to see it on Broadway. But also have come to realise I vibe with the camp and spooky over more traditional musicals. Disappointed Sweeney Todd doesn't open til Feb, still on the list to see a live performance. But definitely seeing Little Shop whilst in New York too.
Oh my god thank you for talking about dance of the vampires!! It is such an amazing show and I hope it gets a successful English transfer someday! It’s so worth watching the musical online it is beautiful!!
@@kallen868 I saw the off-Broadway revival about a decade ago, and it was genuinely great. It works beautifully as a small, intimate musical, and they gave Carrie a great Act 2 number where she reassures herself that she can handle going to the prom.
I go for either version of vampire. Saw Michael Crawford in the show on Broadway the day before he turned 60. I was a mega fan at the time. It was a royal f****** blast. Now, I haven't seen the pro shot at the time. And once I saw that one my heart became completely it, but I still really appreciate the comedic version that was given to us by new york.
I'm still waiting for a Broadway adaptation of Nightmare Before Christmas. Although a musical based on Nightmare on Elm Street would also be interesting...
As much as I hate to say it… Julie Taymor could absolutely crush a Nightmare Before Christmas musical. It’s so good in stop motion that I can’t see it *not* including puppetry!
IKR! I have been saying that the over the top nature of the later Elm street, especially the energy of the Dream Trilogy, would work PERFECTLY on Broadway!
@@whovian809 And the fact that Newline "The House That Freddy Built" Cinema had their own stage division and DIDN'T do anything with NoES prior to being bought by WB is insane!
I know this video was focused on stage productions, but folks should also check out "Anna And The Apocalypse," a somewhat overlooked zombie movie musical that works way better than it has any right to.
Spooky, horror musicals seem silly to the casual viewer for sure. Everything on this list is an adaptation, and if you told the average Joe about any of them, you'd probably get a reply along the lines of "How did they make that into a musical?!" But there's just something about it that works. Maybe it's the tonal dissonance creating a strange but effective harmony, maybe they just naturally elevate each other as equally melodramatic genres. It's tough to say. Digging into this could make for a video all its own. But spooky is it's own sub genre of musical at this point. There were tons more not even mentioned in this video! Jekyll and Hyde, Rocky Horror, Frankenstein, Young Frankenstein. The list goes on! It's a crazy, strange area of musical theater, but it's certainly a beloved one that will probably have many more entries in the future. Awesome list! Also wow! The Addams Family! That takes me back. 2010 KateCast had a phase with that musical. Good times. Bizarre times, but good.
I was surprised and delighted that you included Tanz here! The design and music are so fun. I’d love to see a full video on it and what happened with the broadway attmept
I only discovered little shop of horrors last year when theatre company at my school did it for our yearly play. I got the lucky chance to act, build and puppeteer the plant! Now I’m absolutely in love with this show and all the music!
I would like to add the sadly underrated Witches of Eastwick musical - imagine The Music Man, if Harold Hill were secretly the Devil, and with three lonely women instead of one.
I’ve seen the Addams Family musical tour version when I was in high school. It was hilarious and so good. One of the best early birthday presents I got
Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe is a musical I've been in love with for a while. It tells the story of Poe's life combined with the fantasy of his own works within a dark, sometimes twisted rock operetta. The visuals of this show are everything, and luckily the entire cast recording of the show is on Spotify, so one can listen to it like an audio book. The same company who did Nevermore, Catalyst Theatre in Alberta, is known for putting on similarly gothic shows as well, such as retellings of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris. I highly, *highly* recommend Nevermore and Catalyst Theatre if you're looking for a plethora of dark, spooky musicals.
@Paranormal_TheatreKid watch it, it's amazing (there's a slime tutorial on UA-cam) I wouldn't call it spooky tho. It's more... sad? Dark? I don't know the right word, but "spooky" isn't it.
I’m surprised Phantom of the Opera didn’t make the list, sure everyone knows about it but it’s the most iconic spooky musical. Elizabet is another great spooky musical, death is personified in the show as an actual character. It’s about the Austrian Empress Elizabet & her brushes with death through out her life. Death is depicted as being in love with her & constantly pursuits Elizabet & temps her to “join him”. He goes as far as to take her newborn daughter & convince her son to shoot himself to try to get Elizabet to kill herself. The opening number takes place in a graveyard/underworld type setting where the deceased who knew Elizabet sing the opening number with the line “everyone has danced with death but no one like Elizabet”. Death is made to be very alluring & attractive in the show making him hard to resist. It’s in German but there a full video of it on UA-cam with English subtitles (just like tanz de vampir)
Bro how did you get all that footage of Evil Dead The Muiscal?! Like that's HD footage not even the official website uploads! I'm sadly a massive hyper fan for Evil Dead and the musical.
I think Hellraiser would make for an excellent musical. Most of the run time is devoted to interpersonal drama and inner conflict which would translate really well to song and the cenobites would be great as some sort of hellish choir.
Oh man Horror musicals are so fun. Repo, Carrie, Rocky Horror Show, Jekyll and Hyde and Sweeney Todd could have made this list as well. Also Thanks for including Tanz, I love that show a lot
So as a kid, I saw the Little Shop of Horrors movie (Rick Moranis version). And I thought it was super funny while still being creepy. But then when I was about 10, I saw the musical. Having only seen the movie, I had no idea there was an alternate ending where Audrey II wins. So when I saw the musical and *spoiler alert* Audrey II eats Seymour and Audrey then grows to be huge and stretches out over the audience…..suffice it to say I got the literal piss scared out of me and my dad had to drag me out of the theater because I was screaming too much 😂😂😂
And people say that companies will pull IP out of anything THESE days The Adams Family were a series of one panel newspaper cartoons, and they weren't even consistent! Stories find a way.
My sister and i saw a local production of little shop of horrors this summer. Mind you it was her first play not aimed at children. She was...surprised when her kindergarten teacher was eaten by a puppet
I sold tickets in the late 2000s at BIC when Adams Family premiered in Chicago. I remember the sales being aenemic. There were weeks when Altar Boyz was outselling it.
So glad to see Tanz der Vampire on here, I discovered it during my highschool years when I was studying german and DEEP in my emo phase. It's still a favourite of mine and highschool was a good decade or two ago
Brave but Controversial statement: With the exception of Phantom,Michael Crawford is always the worse part of the thing he is in. His first movie roll was Hello,Dolly. He is a terrible Barnaby. There I said it.
I took my friend to our yearly tradition of The Rocky Horror Show musical last night and needless to say we will have to watch the movie with subtitles and more explanation for her to grasp the story
I can't really get to Broadway. The only two I saw was Tarzan and Phantom of the Opera (both thanks to high school field trips so they were the back of the back seats). I got to see the Adam Family play thanks to a high school doing it and uploading it on UA-cam. The play is really fun and the high schoolers did an amazing job.
You might like The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals? It's not Broadway, it's made by Starkid, who work with budgets and have a modern sense of humour. Also it's on UA-cam, uploaded by Starkid themselves.
My top 2 horror musicals are always gonna be Sweeny Todd and Repo! The Genetic Opera. Both were thankfully adapted to film and pretty well at that, which is good because I am not a broadway person at all, much more a film obsessive.
I saw Dance of the Vampires on Broadway and it genuinely one of my favorite nights on Broadway. It was absolutely mind blowingly ridiculous and we had a great time.
I blame both you and my curiosity for introducing me to the world of Shockheaded Peter. It's like watching _The Texas Chainsaw Massacre_ reenacted by children.
I saw Dance of the Vampires before it closed and vividly remember someone yelling towards the stage door as we left, "How can you sleep at night, you jackass?!" at Michael Crawford.
I’m “lucky” in that I got to see Dance of the Vampires on Broadway. I mean, it was a fun night. I also saw Lestat (…6 times) and Wildhorn’s Dracula (5 times). I like Vampire musicals.
Tanz Der Vampyr is honestly SO worth the watch. Like Jekyll & Hyde with its national tour version (which is now the version you can rent for regional productions) - it benefitted so heavily from a director and design that took it’s over-the-top Metal-esque concept at face value. Even just original Cast Recording led by Steve Barton, the original Raoul, is worth a listen. Passionate beyond measure and loveable mostly for its quirks - it’s worth the time. Plus it has some of the best Baritenor belting this side of Steven Pasquale 🥴
"Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe" is my current obsession. A fictionalized story of the life of the most infamous American author, blending together the few details we know for sure with scenes inspired by his macabre tales and poems. It comes together as an avant-garde gothic spectacle that's equally charming, heartfelt, tragic, and creepy.
oh Tanz! I adore the original German. It makes me so sad that it didn't work in the US. It makes me so sad that I can't find a copy of the Vienna pro shoot to purchase, so if anyone knows where to find it....?
thank u thank u thank u for mentioning how f'd up the Broadway version of TdV is xD if you haven't seen it in Austria or Germany you just don't know the actual musical at all. it's sold out every time it's coming to Vienna for a reason
My nightmares still almost always include the plant from little shop of horrors... After seeing the movie musical when I was 11 at a Halloween sleepover. I was too old to be that scared but a plant eating people is creepy.
Are you going to release a video about Dance of the Vampires on Halloween night? I remember seeing the Broadway version starring Michael Crawford and was appalled by the scathing reviews, even though in retrospect this show was a disaster.
What are some of your favorite spooky musicals?
The hatchetfield musicals from Starkid! All of their musicals are so good
Again, please do a documentry on Bat Boy: The Musical!
Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd.
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, how is this not on the list? I mean it's the horror musical by excellence
- Tanz der Vampire
- Elisabeth (a literal personification of Death haunts this musical about the historical Habsburg dynasty and Empress Elisabeth of Austria)
- Sweeney Todd
- The Phantom of the Opera
- Carrie
- The Rocky Horror Show
- Jekyll & Hyde (my favorite version of this was the one that played in Bremen, Germany with Ethan Freeman and Vienna, Austria with Thomas Borchert)
Sweeney Todd is tremendous fun, though you'd have to be warned in advance about how gory it can get. Rest in peace, Angela Lansbury, the original Mrs Lovett.
Yh I've recommened it once and I didn't give them a heads up on the gorey...now I feel like I can't make anymore recommendation
Sweeney Todd is my absolute favourite. Sondheim was a genius!
Imagine being in the the audience of the the first preview maybe knowing the basic original story but having no idea what you were in for 😳
Agreed. That was the only musical I've seen that gave me nightmares.
I love this show. I’m gonna try my damnedest to get tickets when it reopens on Broadway with Josh Groban as Sweeny
I would also love to turn people on to the recent Canadian musical RIDE THE CYCLONE which is basically _Our Town_ by way of RL.Stine's _Goosebumps._ It's about six teenagers who died in a roller-coaster accident, but is by turns tragic, hilarious, life affirming, and sometimes downright spooky. The ramshackle carnival vibe is incredible with ghostly coloratura sung by a headless Jane Doe and narration by a mechanical fortune-telling booth. Musical styles go all over the map as the teens recount their lives and short-circuited aspirations. It's is unexpectedly _not_ a wallow in depression, but an exultant celebration of life.
Aw I clicked on this bc I thought he would’ve talked about ride the cyclone!
Thank you for bringing Ride The Cyclone! I’ve been obsessed with it and it needs more attention!
That...actually really sounds like something I'd wanna see.
It’s not recent. It was made in 2009. It has gotten a lot more popular recently though
This. Hope a local theater of mine puts it on down in Texas cause it is awesome
What makes Beetlejuice so amazing to me is that it is one of very few adapted musicals that is even better than the original source material, I'm sad that the show has had such a rocky history but it deserves all the success it's had. Long live Beetlejuice!
EXACTLY
I already love the movie, but I feel the musical improved on it!
I enjoy the beetlejuice musical very much, but I personally can't say I find it to be an improvement (though, I am certainly not trying to discount your views!!) What elements particularly do you find the musical to have improved on the original?? I think that while it is pretty cool that beetlejuice has an expanded back story, and Lydia has a more development journey, the musical misses a few important parts for me. Just curious on another's perspective 😁
I’m so glad it’s going on tour. I’ll be able to finally see it
No other musical has such a special place in my heart like Beetlejuice does. Its such an amazing show. Ive never been able to see it in person (im european) but it has still absolutely become my favorite musical. The world it creates with amazing lighting and effects and acting and music is MAGICAL
I was seated in the "Blood Zone" of an Evil Dead production. It was one of the most fun shows I have seen. Especially with the way that production did it; they used some blood here and there throughout the show, and near the end you were kind of disappointed with the 10 drops of blood on you. But then, at the very end, there's a full 3 minutes of bloodbath that left people absolutely soaked. It was amazing
I sat in the Blood Zone of a production as well, and it was Halloween, so I was dressed as Herbert West, Re-Animator. My dad was not happy that I got fake blood on his lab coat.
Starkid's "The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals" is the creepiest musical.
Yes, when you think about the iMpLlCaTiOnS.
@@JDNightGhobhadi aaaah!
I think Black Friday is creepier, seeing Linda kill Frank so cold heartedly
just wait for nerdy prudes 👀
@@Foxy02016”I’ve met god. He had nothing nice to say about you.”
A Series of Unfortunate Events needs to be a musical
Omg I’ve never thought of that, I’d watch it!!
And if it is, have the framing device be Count Olaf’s theatre troupe putting on the show.
Have it open something like this:
Count Olaf comes onstage and says:
Why, hello hello hello, my lovely audience. Welcome to the Count Olaf Theatre Troupe production of A Series of Unfortunate Events!
First, we have a note the playwright requested me to read. He’s a great man, one….. LeeMone SneeKeet? Must be foreign.
Ahem: “It is my humble duty, a word which here means obligation”- why does he write it like that? Anyway, “to inform you that you will probably not enjoy tonight’s performance”- HEY! “Due to the disturbing content.” Ohhhhhh. “No matter how much the”- ahem- extremely handsome, good-looking and talented actor playing the villain- “may seem to detract from that, detract here meaning take away from, if you enjoy happy stories with happy endings, now is your chance to request a refund.” We will not fulfill that request, by the way! We, um, already spent the ticket money on the show itself. Anyway, enough doom and gloom! I would like to request that all phones be turned off or set to the “completely silent, including vibration” mode, and that all photos, videos, audio recordings, legal pads used by reporters to find incriminating evidence, and VFD spyglasses be turned off as well! And one more thing! This is a work of fiction! Though I share the wonderful name Count Olaf with the villain, Olaf is just a common count name! And I don’t have a tattoo of an- AHHH! I, ahem, only have a tattoo of an eye on my ankle because that’s in vogue! Yeah, that’s why! I am quite a good person in real life, and I am not planning on burning down your house and stealing your fortune, you MISERABLE ORPHANS! Ahem, anyway enjoy the show!
(He walks offstage.)
You think they suspected my genius plot?
Um, they do now. Your mic’s still on.
AAAHHHH!
I love Little Shop of Horrors. Both the 80s film and the musicals are great.
Another horror musical i love is a movie called 'Repo! Genetic Opera'. Its kind of a cult classic like Rocky Horror Picture show but for the 00s. It also started as a limited stage play musical before it became a film.
It's directed by the director of four Saw movies and is edited exactly like one. I'm pretty sure they reused some sets from Saw for it.
The dad from buffy the vampire slayer is in it!
@@kingbaco1233 I never seen Buffy but yeah Anthony Head was great in Repo.
Anthony Stewart Head was the librarian from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
German Dance of the Vampires is one of my favorite musicals and is still running in germany. It celebrated 25 years on stage this year. It's still fantastic and funny and pompous, and we still refuse to talk about the american version ever over here.
Total eclipse of the sun was originally written for a different vampire property, but when it fell through Jim released it as a single so then when he got to work on Dance de vampire later he was like "Huh? I already did it?" And I love that for him.
The german version is easy to find and my favourite
Jim Steinman reused material *all the time.* My favorite song of his, Original Sin, ended up getting something like four different recordings that he was involved with, including a version with revised lyrics for the 1994 The Shadow movie soundtrack, and it was reworked for Tanz as well.
@@jasonblalock4429 Even Bat out of Hell is reused from an Unfinished Musical Idea from him called "Neverland"
The moment the music hits, you know it is a Jim Steinman show. Overblown singing, dramatic music and a Gothic sensibility to the lyrics, all are his hallmarks. And I love it to pieces.
I had never heard of evil dead until it was one of the shows we designed in my costume design class! the music is SO fun, and (for my fellow tech theatre people) there is so much unique rigging, puppetry, and nonsense you can put together! i would also like to see a full video on tanz der vampire because that whole story is w i l d
Highly Reccomend The guy that didn’t like musicals by Starkid for your spooky musical get together
Better experienced with Black Friday and Nightmare Time.
Fun video. But I can’t believe “Sweeney Todd” didn’t make the list. I saw it on Broadway in 1979 (thank you Miss Lansbury), and remember feeling the whole audience tense up as Mr. Todd applied his razor to Pirelli’s throat.
What a gift it must have been to see Angela Lansbury on stage as Mrs Lovett, what an icon
@@starberrycupcake same as seeing Ellen Greene as Audrey, it’s magic
What I love about the stage production of Little Shop is that the Aliens( Audrey 2) win. Humanity is not saved. The plants take over. I think it has far more powerful message than the movie does.
Michael Kunze just can't seem to catch a break when it comes to Broadway adaptations of his musicals. First Rebecca, now Dance of the Vampires.
Watching the UA-cam clip of Mrs Danvers burning manderly at the finale of Rebecca makes the fact that it never made it to broadway a tragedy. Although there was a recent revival in Germany. Maybe legitimate producers will finally make the transfer
"Dance..." flopped much earlier than "Rebecca" did. And even though both stories are dramatic, the "Dance..." scenario is much less interesting.
I hope they never try to bring "Elisabeth" to Broadway. That's just asking for disaster.
Tanz is my favorite musical hands down. The great music and beautiful decor, costumes and how it's funny but it doesn't see itself as joke. Now the Broadway version IS a joke🤣
It still breaks my heart that Dance of the Vampires wasnt done properly in the US. I rewatch Tanz Der Vampire a lot on youtube, its just perfect!
It is entirely this channel's fault that I fell in love with Beetlejuice and will be travelling from Aus to NYC in January just to see it on Broadway.
But also have come to realise I vibe with the camp and spooky over more traditional musicals. Disappointed Sweeney Todd doesn't open til Feb, still on the list to see a live performance. But definitely seeing Little Shop whilst in New York too.
Oh my god thank you for talking about dance of the vampires!! It is such an amazing show and I hope it gets a successful English transfer someday! It’s so worth watching the musical online it is beautiful!!
I just played Orin in a community production of Little Shop and it is such a fun show. So glad to hear you talk about it even a little bit.
I’m surprised you didn’t include either Carrie or American Psycho.
I love Carrie. Very under rated.
@@kallen868 I saw the off-Broadway revival about a decade ago, and it was genuinely great. It works beautifully as a small, intimate musical, and they gave Carrie a great Act 2 number where she reassures herself that she can handle going to the prom.
Would love to see a full wait in the wings episode on lestat or dance of the vampires. They both look like complete disasters in the best way.
Same. Absolutely same.
I go for either version of vampire. Saw Michael Crawford in the show on Broadway the day before he turned 60. I was a mega fan at the time. It was a royal f****** blast. Now, I haven't seen the pro shot at the time. And once I saw that one my heart became completely it, but I still really appreciate the comedic version that was given to us by new york.
I'm still waiting for a Broadway adaptation of Nightmare Before Christmas. Although a musical based on Nightmare on Elm Street would also be interesting...
As much as I hate to say it… Julie Taymor could absolutely crush a Nightmare Before Christmas musical. It’s so good in stop motion that I can’t see it *not* including puppetry!
@@bigjedimullet True. No offense to the people who do fan-made musicals, but Jack just being a guy in face paint wouldn't look right.
IKR! I have been saying that the over the top nature of the later Elm street, especially the energy of the Dream Trilogy, would work PERFECTLY on Broadway!
@@whovian809 And the fact that Newline "The House That Freddy Built" Cinema had their own stage division and DIDN'T do anything with NoES prior to being bought by WB is insane!
I know this video was focused on stage productions, but folks should also check out "Anna And The Apocalypse," a somewhat overlooked zombie movie musical that works way better than it has any right to.
My favourite christmass movie hands down
Spooky, horror musicals seem silly to the casual viewer for sure. Everything on this list is an adaptation, and if you told the average Joe about any of them, you'd probably get a reply along the lines of "How did they make that into a musical?!" But there's just something about it that works.
Maybe it's the tonal dissonance creating a strange but effective harmony, maybe they just naturally elevate each other as equally melodramatic genres. It's tough to say. Digging into this could make for a video all its own. But spooky is it's own sub genre of musical at this point. There were tons more not even mentioned in this video! Jekyll and Hyde, Rocky Horror, Frankenstein, Young Frankenstein. The list goes on!
It's a crazy, strange area of musical theater, but it's certainly a beloved one that will probably have many more entries in the future. Awesome list!
Also wow! The Addams Family! That takes me back. 2010 KateCast had a phase with that musical. Good times. Bizarre times, but good.
I was surprised and delighted that you included Tanz here! The design and music are so fun. I’d love to see a full video on it and what happened with the broadway attmept
I adore horror musicals, I physically NEED more of them!!!!
I only discovered little shop of horrors last year when theatre company at my school did it for our yearly play. I got the lucky chance to act, build and puppeteer the plant! Now I’m absolutely in love with this show and all the music!
I would like to add the sadly underrated Witches of Eastwick musical - imagine The Music Man, if Harold Hill were secretly the Devil, and with three lonely women instead of one.
I’ve seen the Addams Family musical tour version when I was in high school. It was hilarious and so good. One of the best early birthday presents I got
I flipping LOVE “Evil Dead: The Musical”. It’s so great
Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe is a musical I've been in love with for a while. It tells the story of Poe's life combined with the fantasy of his own works within a dark, sometimes twisted rock operetta. The visuals of this show are everything, and luckily the entire cast recording of the show is on Spotify, so one can listen to it like an audio book. The same company who did Nevermore, Catalyst Theatre in Alberta, is known for putting on similarly gothic shows as well, such as retellings of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris. I highly, *highly* recommend Nevermore and Catalyst Theatre if you're looking for a plethora of dark, spooky musicals.
Yes!!!!!
Oh ho ho, Imma guess: Little shop (obvs), Evil dead, Sweeny, Ride the cyclone, Bat boy
rare or weak guess: Dance de vampire, Woman in white, Phantom
@Paranormal_TheatreKid watch it, it's amazing (there's a slime tutorial on UA-cam)
I wouldn't call it spooky tho. It's more... sad? Dark? I don't know the right word, but "spooky" isn't it.
Update; YASSSS DANCE DE VAMPIRE BABY!!!
I really hope you give Tanz its own episode. Its history is a doozy
You have an Elisabeth profile picture, your opinion is valid.
I’m surprised Phantom of the Opera didn’t make the list, sure everyone knows about it but it’s the most iconic spooky musical. Elizabet is another great spooky musical, death is personified in the show as an actual character. It’s about the Austrian Empress Elizabet & her brushes with death through out her life. Death is depicted as being in love with her & constantly pursuits Elizabet & temps her to “join him”. He goes as far as to take her newborn daughter & convince her son to shoot himself to try to get Elizabet to kill herself. The opening number takes place in a graveyard/underworld type setting where the deceased who knew Elizabet sing the opening number with the line “everyone has danced with death but no one like Elizabet”. Death is made to be very alluring & attractive in the show making him hard to resist. It’s in German but there a full video of it on UA-cam with English subtitles (just like tanz de vampir)
Bro how did you get all that footage of Evil Dead The Muiscal?! Like that's HD footage not even the official website uploads! I'm sadly a massive hyper fan for Evil Dead and the musical.
Gotta say, performing as Fester when my high school did this show was an absolute highlight of my entire career thus far. Like, it’s SO MUCH FUN
I think Hellraiser would make for an excellent musical. Most of the run time is devoted to interpersonal drama and inner conflict which would translate really well to song and the cenobites would be great as some sort of hellish choir.
Oh man Horror musicals are so fun. Repo, Carrie, Rocky Horror Show, Jekyll and Hyde and Sweeney Todd could have made this list as well.
Also Thanks for including Tanz, I love that show a lot
So as a kid, I saw the Little Shop of Horrors movie (Rick Moranis version). And I thought it was super funny while still being creepy. But then when I was about 10, I saw the musical. Having only seen the movie, I had no idea there was an alternate ending where Audrey II wins. So when I saw the musical and *spoiler alert* Audrey II eats Seymour and Audrey then grows to be huge and stretches out over the audience…..suffice it to say I got the literal piss scared out of me and my dad had to drag me out of the theater because I was screaming too much 😂😂😂
I remember seeing Evil Dead The Musical in 2006 off Broadway for my birthday gift to myself. i loved it so much!!
And people say that companies will pull IP out of anything THESE days
The Adams Family were a series of one panel newspaper cartoons, and they weren't even consistent!
Stories find a way.
My sister and i saw a local production of little shop of horrors this summer.
Mind you it was her first play not aimed at children. She was...surprised when her kindergarten teacher was eaten by a puppet
I sold tickets in the late 2000s at BIC when Adams Family premiered in Chicago. I remember the sales being aenemic. There were weeks when Altar Boyz was outselling it.
Also, the plot of touring Adams Family is just a goth La Cage Aux Folles.
It really sounds like Michael Crawford went full Hulk Hogan on that musical.
So glad to see Tanz der Vampire on here, I discovered it during my highschool years when I was studying german and DEEP in my emo phase. It's still a favourite of mine and highschool was a good decade or two ago
I got cast as seymour for Little Shop Of Horrors! wish me luck!
Can’t forget Jekyll and Hyde
Brave but Controversial statement: With the exception of Phantom,Michael Crawford is always the worse part of the thing he is in.
His first movie roll was Hello,Dolly. He is a terrible Barnaby. There I said it.
My fav horror musical is probably The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals.
Ok but I would love to see you tackle Lestat and Shockheaded Peter!
I took my friend to our yearly tradition of The Rocky Horror Show musical last night and needless to say we will have to watch the movie with subtitles and more explanation for her to grasp the story
No Sweeny todd?! Daamn
I saw Little Shop live a few weeks ago! It's absolutely wonderful.
I can't really get to Broadway. The only two I saw was Tarzan and Phantom of the Opera (both thanks to high school field trips so they were the back of the back seats). I got to see the Adam Family play thanks to a high school doing it and uploading it on UA-cam. The play is really fun and the high schoolers did an amazing job.
You might like The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals? It's not Broadway, it's made by Starkid, who work with budgets and have a modern sense of humour.
Also it's on UA-cam, uploaded by Starkid themselves.
@@genericname2747 I follow Starkid. Starkid does awesome musicals.
@@bloodmooncomics2249 Nice
My top 2 horror musicals are always gonna be Sweeny Todd and Repo! The Genetic Opera. Both were thankfully adapted to film and pretty well at that, which is good because I am not a broadway person at all, much more a film obsessive.
I actually said 'is that nathan lane?' right before you said 'yes that is indeed nathan lane' 😂
Okay, now I'm intrigued, and you MUST do a full video on Dance of the Vampires.
I own the soundtrack to Evil Dead: The Musical. It's one of my favorite musical soundtracks.
I saw Dance of the Vampires on Broadway and it genuinely one of my favorite nights on Broadway. It was absolutely mind blowingly ridiculous and we had a great time.
I blame both you and my curiosity for introducing me to the world of Shockheaded Peter. It's like watching _The Texas Chainsaw Massacre_ reenacted by children.
Maybe you should also do two separate videos explaining Lestat and Dracula and why they flopped on Broadway, two new ideas for future videos ;)
I saw Dance of the Vampires before it closed and vividly remember someone yelling towards the stage door as we left, "How can you sleep at night, you jackass?!" at Michael Crawford.
Starkid's hatchetfield series is my personal favourite
My fav spooky musical; ride the cyclone
5:05 I saw that dark and stoic version..
It was brilliant!!
Saw Little Shop in London in 1984. The stage ending is so much better than the movie ending, and the vines at the end made us all jump then laugh.
I saw Dance of the Vampire and for years people just refused to believe me that it existed. LOL
Wasn't it little shop that made them get chosen for little mermaid?
Sweeney Todd should be on this list
For sure.
Tanz der Vampire is legit so good. I watched it without expectations and it absolutley blew my mind.
I really hope for a Tanz video, especially after it is a suggestion now for a couple of year or something lol
same
@@gartenmensch1895 ach, du auch hier? xD
"But that hasn't stopped people from trying" *footage from the 2019 Cats movie*
........pls give us a full-length doc on Tanz der Vampir that sounds amazing
I was actually in a amateur production of Little Shop of Horrors. I played Chiffon, one of The Girls, as we called them :D I honestly loved it!
I just saw the evil dead musical last night it was great
i love tanz der vampire!! it’s so fun. i haven’t worked up the courage to watch the broadway 👢 though… hearing about it secondhand is enough for me 🥴
Just saw The Addams Family musical with Teri Hatcher as Morticia. Amazing. Uncle Fester was hilarious.
I’m “lucky” in that I got to see Dance of the Vampires on Broadway. I mean, it was a fun night. I also saw Lestat (…6 times) and Wildhorn’s Dracula (5 times). I like Vampire musicals.
Tanz Der Vampyr is honestly SO worth the watch. Like Jekyll & Hyde with its national tour version (which is now the version you can rent for regional productions) - it benefitted so heavily from a director and design that took it’s over-the-top Metal-esque concept at face value. Even just original Cast Recording led by Steve Barton, the original Raoul, is worth a listen. Passionate beyond measure and loveable mostly for its quirks - it’s worth the time. Plus it has some of the best Baritenor belting this side of Steven Pasquale 🥴
"Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe" is my current obsession. A fictionalized story of the life of the most infamous American author, blending together the few details we know for sure with scenes inspired by his macabre tales and poems. It comes together as an avant-garde gothic spectacle that's equally charming, heartfelt, tragic, and creepy.
Little Shop of Horrors has to be both one of my favorite movies and one of my favorite musicals
Ride the Cyclone is the real spookiest musical
oh Tanz! I adore the original German. It makes me so sad that it didn't work in the US. It makes me so sad that I can't find a copy of the Vienna pro shoot to purchase, so if anyone knows where to find it....?
Repo: The Genetic Rock Opera, Sweeney Todd, Carrie, Heathers, Cats
Beetlejuice is so good
The first musical I ever did was The Addams Family 2 years ago as fester in my high school!
0:09 I think it was unintentional that time (of course we can't forget the poor VFX artists who were tasked with the job)
Would love you to do an episode about vampire musicals!
I can't wait to see Tanz der Vampire live next month
I Wouldn't call any of this musicals spooky per say, but they sure are a perfect fit for the spooky season
thank u thank u thank u for mentioning how f'd up the Broadway version of TdV is xD
if you haven't seen it in Austria or Germany you just don't know the actual musical at all.
it's sold out every time it's coming to Vienna for a reason
My nightmares still almost always include the plant from little shop of horrors... After seeing the movie musical when I was 11 at a Halloween sleepover. I was too old to be that scared but a plant eating people is creepy.
Are you going to release a video about Dance of the Vampires on Halloween night? I remember seeing the Broadway version starring Michael Crawford and was appalled by the scathing reviews, even though in retrospect this show was a disaster.
Looking forward to it!
I played Lucas bieneke about a year ago in the Addams family. It's a really fun show.
No Carrie?
I saw Beetlejuice at the national pre broadway on Halloween 2018 at the National theater. Second row. Such an amazing experience!
First time at premier! Looks like a good one.