Dracula Musical Press Release

DRACULA, the musical of Bram Stoker's novel, by Evans, Orton & Lynn

Sang de Vie Productions Ltd. produced the professional concept album of seventeen tracks from the work in 2006 and the video of “Within My World”, from the show, was produced in 2007. The video was launched on the internet and on the o-music television channel during 2008.

Since the release of the concept album, the Dracula musical had been further improved and developed as a stage show. The producers intend to premiere the work as soon as possible. At this point, we hope to see this happen within the next year.

The Dracula musical concept CD is available from CD Baby, Amazon, Dress Circle, the Sound of Music store and many other online sales outlets; including iTunes and CD Universe.

DRACULA – The NEW and COMPLETE version of the musical.

We have started to record more numbers for the new, fully orchestrated, version of the Dracula musical. The soundtrack will include an additional ten numbers from the work, including recently written material. This process will take several months to complete, from which an all new CD version of the reworked musical will be produced later in 2010.

Thanks to the CD, internet, radio and television broadcasts, this musical version of Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ already has an established following and growing worldwide fan base.

The Dracula musical team.
http://www.dracula-uk.com/

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Brief History of the Musical

The musical "Dracula" has taken several years to reach the present stage of development. After extensive research had been conducted by the lyricist in 1999 / 2000 (including the use of references to Stoker's original notes for the novel), the initial lyric structures for some of the proposed songs and the outline of the musical plot were written. The first version of the complete libretto had been produced by 2003 and has subsequently been further improved.
Christopher J. Orton and Gareth Evans began working together on the project in 2004, when Christopher began setting the libretto to his original music and to create the score for the work.
After the lyricist and composer had recorded some demo material of their work in 2004, and following some private cast readings of scenes, an opportunity arose to produce a professional concept recording of the show. This process began in 2005 after the noted composer, arranger and musical director, Ian Lynn, agreed to orchestrate the work.
The album features the leading West End musical theatre performer, Michael McCarthy, singing the title role.
The official album launch was on September 25th at Dress Circle (London). Since then the album has been selling well at all retail outlets and is still a top CD best seller at Dress Circle.
The UK Theatre Magazine, What's On Stage, published a very positive review of the Dracula concept album in its December 2006 issue. Recently, a track from the album was played on national radio. That was on the Elaine Paige show on BBC Radio 2.
A further album of the complete Dracula musical is planned and that process will begin during 2009.
The producers of the album are Sang de Vie Productions Ltd. They can be contacted via their website.

Buy the album at Dress Circle (London): DRACULA - THE MUSICAL

Buy the album at Sound of Music store (Germany): DRACULA - THE MUSICAL

The Dracula Musical Album is now available in the USA, via the American / internet based supplier CD BABY

See the Dracula Musical Website Index for related links and credits

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Copyright

Book and Lyrics by Gareth Evans. Music by Christopher J. Orton. Orchestration by Ian Lynn.

The concept album of the musical, “Dracula”, is produced by Sang de Vie Productions Ltd.

All forms of reproduction of any part of this recorded work are strictly prohibited by law.