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fearsmagazine · 7 months

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Director and co-writer GORDON GREENBERG, and co-writer STEVE ROSEN, discuss DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS

Currently at the New World Stages, Stage 5, in New York City is DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS, a pansexual GenZ Count Dracula is in the midst of an existential crisis. When he sets his sights on the brilliant young earth scientist Lucy Westfeldt, he meets his match for the first time – as well as a slew of other colorful characters including vampire hunter Jean Van Helsing, insect connoisseur Percy Renfield and behavioral psychiatrist Wallace Westfeldt, whose British country estate doubles as a free-range mental asylum.

(LtoR) Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Jordan Boatman, James Daly, Ellen harvey and Arnie Burton in DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS. Photo by Matthew Murphy

DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS, is directed and co-written by Gordon Greenberg, and co-written by Steve Rosen. GREENBERG laid the foundation of for his craft at Stanford, NYU Film, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. ROSEN attended NYU/Tisch. The duo has worked together on several projects including on the musical adaptation of “The Secret of My Success,” “Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG San Diego Christmas Show,” and “Crime and Punishment - a Comedy.” Between the two of them, their awards are so numerous it would compromise the mantel they rest upon. I recently had the pleasure to chat with them about their collaboration on the hilarious off-Broadway production of DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS.

(LtoR) Playwrights STEVE ROSEN and GORDON GREENBERG. Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors. Photo by Maria Baranova.

DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS is now playing a limited Off-Broadway engagement through January 7 at New World Stages, Stage 5, in New York City, thru January 7th, 2024. Vist www.DraculaComedy.com for more information and tickets.

The music heard in the background during this segment is an original composition by Victoria “Toy” Deiorio who composed some of the original music and did the sound design for DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS .

PART 2 with GORDON GREENBERG & STEVE ROSEN - Listen Here.

Read Our Review of DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS - HERE

#interview #theater #Steve Rosen #Gordon Greenberg #DRACULA #A COMEDY OF TERRORS #New World Stages #comedy #horror #joseph b mauceri #joseph mauceri #part 1 #terrorgram

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soapkaars · 2 years

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The Peter Lorre tarot: featuring Felix Gillie from a Comedy of Terrors as the Star. This card is all about hope - a bad situation finally turning around into something positive - and who better for this than our dear old lock-pick who elopes with Amaryllis at the end, escaping the clutches and tyranny of Waldo Trumbull?

#peter lorre tarot deck #tarot #major arcana #the star #felix gillie #a comedy of terrors #comedy of terrors #peter lorre #look at how happy he is making those wooden stars

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myhummingbirdbluelove · 7 months

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This is book canon now and nobody can change my mind.

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A lot of y'all won't see this edit because of how reblogs work, but I feel it is important to share what I've recently learned about this production:

Mina and Van Helsing are played by the same person.

Thank you and you're welcome. May you all be blessed with crabs.

#dracula a comedy of terrors #dracula #my good friend jonathan harker #jonathan harker #dracula daily #tiktok

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theredandwhitequeen · 1 year

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Book 10 of the 50 book challenge. A Comedy of Terrors by Lindsey Davis. Another book in the Flavia Albia mystery series. It was so good, it takes place over the course of a week, and a few days after the previous book. I really enjoyed it and I’m happy I read it. I highly recommend it.

#book 10 #50 book challenge #2023 #a comedy of terrors #lindsey davis #historical mystery #historical fiction #Rome #Roman #history #mystery #book #me

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twinstxrs · 1 month

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so much happened in this whole episode but i’m still on fig infiltrating ruben’s dream, making it look like the place where his friend was murdered, and then disguising herself as kipperlilly & repeatedly saying different variants of “somebody needs to take the fall for this, and it’s not going to be me. it’s going to be you.” while adaine as the elven oracle shows up next to her. can you imagine waking up from that, the idea of a horrible truth being pinned on you by your friend to save her own skin while the personification of fate and destiny stands there, almost as a promise that this is GOING to happen to you. we don’t even know if this kid is guilty. my god.

#fantasy high #dimension 20 #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #fantasy high junior year #fig faeth #ruben hopclap #lucy frostblade #the rat grinders #adaine abernant #kipperlilly copperkettle #watching fig terrorize him like girl!!! we don’t even know if he’s guilty!!!!#this might just be for me but i do not think 5 teenagers willingly brutally killed their friend idk #like there just has to be some other element to it and i am very scared to find out what that was #what if they were put in a position where they felt there was/there was no other choice… like oh my god #my comedy brain is having fun but my ‘this is a teenager’ brain is in such deep distress all the time this season #the rat grinders i trust brennan to not make u cartoonishly evil so i am holding u as gently as i can in my confused shaky hands #also with the devil’s nectar i’ve been wondering why they all seem so well-adjusted & now i’m curious if they’ve been intentionally-#changing their memories in a way so that either the trauma is lesser or they think they aren’t guilty. idk #but it seems like from how gertie was talking she was making it more recently so the well adjustedness from early jy doesn’t quite add up #they could have another source maybe??? idk i’m just low stakes 4 a.m. spitballing here #there’s also the strong possibility that they’re aware of what happened but they weren’t the ones who killed lucy. idk who knows #the way you could probably devil’s nectar yourself into believing it wasn’t your fault someone died… CRAZY IMPLICATIONS!!! CRAZY IDEA!!!#anyways the bad kids & the rat grinders don’t ever have to like each other but i do wonder if at least some of those kids deserve a chance

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lonelyzarquon · 11 months

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Vincent Price as Waldo Trumbull in The Comedy of Terrors (1963)

#vincent price #the comedy of terrors #horroredit #filmedit #userbrittany #classichorrorblog #60s horror #mine #my gifs #vile vile man. but he's silly goofy so he gets a pass <3

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ilovemesomevincentprice · 7 months

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Vincent Price and Peter Lorre as Waldo Trumbull and his assistant, Felix Gillie attempt to murder Trumbull's landlord, Mr. Black (Basil Rathbone) and shove him inside of a casket alive.

The Comedy of Terrors (1964) dir. Jacques Tourneur

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mblematic · 7 months

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oh the tumblrinas are going to love this one

#but seriously. dracula daily vibes #SO FUN #dracula is SO hot #dracula #dracula: a comedy of terrors

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reindeerswillsavethisworld · 10 months

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I think Danny Phantom fandom is absolutely sleeping on the sheer dumb bulshittery Danny, Sam and Tucker generate on the regular and it’s a fucking shame. Like, the three of them have exactly one (1) single braincell between them, and the only one to use it at least semi-regularly is Jazz. You literally can’t leave them for five minutes without them stumbling into some new bullshit every single time. Granted, a lot of times bullshit finds them first instead of the other way around, but by god will they make the situation worse. They run into the situations with the same reckless abandon the cockchafers fly into any solid obstacle in their way, and you’d think that at least one of them will be the voice of reason, and you’d be dead wrong.

Danny? He thought pranking a murder happy millionaire with a vindictive streak the size of Grand Canyon was a great idea. And then, like a moron, he decided to use equally murder happy government agency with a huge prejudice against ghosts and a vendetta against him, personally. Absolutely nothing that could go wrong with that, obviously!

(spoiler alert, things did go very wrong very fast)

Tucker? A valid choice at the first glance, except he is always down to commit crimes for either his friends or just for funsies. Remember that time he ran an obviously illegal babysitting scam business? Or that time when he brainwashed and then dimensionally displaced the whole school into Ancient Egypt setting? Another notable instances of Tucker being a menace, in no particular order: organised o pro-meat protest in a few hours, tried to shoot a ghost with his phone as a projectile (and succeeded), sold Sam out to a ghost out of sheer pettiness, gave Skulker an alarm-induced ptsd, almost killed Danny that one time (don’t worry, Danny was fine) and in general committed to being bullshit-enabling gremlin.

Now Sam would seem the most grounded and reasonable out of three of them, but it is what SHE wants you to believe. She is just as, if not more, unhinged as the boys, she just hides it better. Remember that time she trashed the castle and antagonised a few dozen of armed guards, while having no back up, no weapons, no allies and while being in some shithole in the Ghost Zone? And then basically told a tyrannical asshole with op dragon powers “fuck you and your entire kingdom” in the face? And then rode another dragon who put said asshole through a wall? Good times.

They all seem like perfectly reasonable people at the first glance, and then Tucker and Danny would dare each other to lick that weird glowing green rock, and Sam would roll her eyes and groan about how stupid boys are, and then Tucker would dare her to lick that glowing rock too, and Danny will say, “Come on, Tuck, it’s okay if she’s too afraid to do it-”, and yes, Sam and her mother have many disagreements on a lot of things, but both her mother AND Granny did not raise a fucking bitch, move over, Tucker, or so help her the spirit of Pandora-

They all end up absolutely miserable in ecto-containment units sick as hell with ecto-flu and on all questions answer that no, they don’t know how this happened, maybe it was ghost attack last week, they did get blasted by that green goo, after all, but really, they have absolutely no idea, honest. Jazz suspects something, but she also has no proof and therefore can’t prove anything. In the end, it was one of the worst weeks in their life and they all ended up swearing to not do it ever again.

(they do end up doing it again two months later)

#phandom is SLEEPING on the sheer comedic potential of those three committing crimes together I swear to god!!!!#like I do understand that this fandom loves it’s angst and all #and sam danny & tucker in the same scene together will more often than not end up in stand up comedy instead of angst #but god #GOD DO I WISH THERE WAS MORE OF THOSE THREE BEING DUMBASSES TOGETHER #like imagine them doing idk a heist together or smth #the panic the destruction the potential for reality defying bullshit #the ABSOLUTELY committed eco-terrorism off screen I know I was there #Sam was there bcs of obvious reasons and ended up organising an uprising #tucker was there bcs he’s always ready to commit crimes and stick it to the government #danny was there as moral support only and ended up on wanted lists of at least 7 countries #sam manson #tucker foley #danny fenton #danny phantom

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amarshmallownamedo · 7 months

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I WILL pay money for Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors to be filmed and released somewhere. It looks so amazing and I hope it's been selling out every night

#dracula #dracula a comedy of terrors #draculacomedy off broadway #dracula play #draculacomedy 2023

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fearsmagazine · 7 months

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Director and co-writer GORDON GREENBERG, and co-writer STEVE ROSEN discuss DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS - Part 2

Currently at the New World Stages, Stage 5, in New York City is DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS, a pansexual GenZ Count Dracula is in the midst of an existential crisis.

(L to R) Playwrights STEVE ROSEN and GORDON GREENBERG. Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors. Photo by Maria Baranova

DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS, is directed and co-written by Gordon Greenberg, and co-written by Steve Rosen. GREENBERG laid the foundation of for his craft at Stanford, NYU Film, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. ROSEN attended NYU/Tisch. The duo has worked together on several projects including on the musical adaptation of “The Secret of My Success,” “Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG San Diego Christmas Show,” and “Crime and Punishment - a Comedy.” Between the two of them, their awards are so numerous it would compromise the mantel they rest upon. I recently had the pleasure to chat with them about their collaboration on the hilarious off-Broadway production of DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS.

DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS is now playing a limited Off-Broadway engagement through January 7 at New World Stages, Stage 5, in New York City, thru January 7th, 2024. Vist www.DraculaComedy.com for more information and tickets.

PART 1 with GORDON GREENBERG & STEVE ROSEN - Listen Here.

Read Our Review of DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS - HERE

#interview #theater #DRACULA #A COMEDY OF TERRORS #GORDON GREENBERG #STEVE ROSEN #new world stages #comedy #horror #joseph b mauceri #joseph mauceri #terrorgram

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classicfilmblr · 6 months

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“Everybody else knows you’re dead, Mr. Black, except apparently you.” THE COMEDY OF TERRORS 1963 | dir. Jacques Tourneur

#the comedy of terrors #filmedit #horroredit #classicfilmedit #vincent price #peter lorre #basil rathbone #ours #by teri #userbrittany #userkd #userrobin #usermichi #userkraina #underbetelgeuse #usertennant #1960s #film

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ohcorny · 4 months

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i went to see that cunt dracula play with the twinky jon harker and the blond hunk dracula that was circulating around here and i'm afraid the writing was very cringe but the stagecraft was fun and the guy who was crossdressing to play mina and (female) dr van helsing gave 110%. cunt dracula himself was a delight whenever he was on stage. that dude can flip a cape

also he was played by the blond gay gym rat from letterkenny which i didn't realize until literally reading the playbill. which delighted me

#it's called dracula a comedy of terrors

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notastranger · 4 months

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