Blood Tango the Musical
A Romantic Tragedy "...sensual and thrilling."
“The excerpts are finely wrought and make the best of several music-halls styles and, my, the singing [on the recordings] is grand, voluptuous, passionate… the tunefulness is marvelous.”
--Thomas Larson, music critic and memoirist
A MUSICAL FOR RIGHT NOW!
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Neither the "suave-monster-preys-on-helpless-damsel" nor the old formula of the men riding in to rescue the maiden, but with a strong feminist theme.
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Songs of passion, longing, and humor with universal appeal--including audiences who feel left behind by current musicals.
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Perennially popular every October.
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What’s more erotic than Vampires? The Tango!
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Set in an English drawing room in 1922, the characters include a brilliant Hispanic orphan, her tango-obsessed sister and her fiancé, their alcoholic German tutor, their father who runs an asylum below their living quarters, a crazed patient with religious delusions, the trusty Cockney butler, and...their immigrant housekeeper and wise woman WHO SAVES THEM ALL.
THE STORY...
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A beautiful young nobleman was bitten by bats four centuries ago and is cursed with unending life.
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He is driven to drink the blood of virgins; he injects heroin to soothe his misery.
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His blood and body bring either death or enduring life.
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He vows to renounce his addictions to become fully human again.
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He repairs to an English sanatorium on the North Sea.
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He is unaware that the doctor in charge has two lovely virginal daughters and cabinets full of drugs.
WILL LOVE SAVE HIM
OR DESTROY HIM?
Book, Music & Lyrics by
J. A. McMullen
Additional Music by
Tal Ariel, Elizabeth Jane Dunne,
Orchestrations by Tal Ariel
Score transcription by Bruce Munson
© 2018, John McMullen
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