photo by R A Reutter
REV Theatre Company premieres its newest musical event My Big Fang Vampire Wedding at Ulana’s Nightclub (205 Bainbridge Street), running September 5 – 8 and September 12 – 15, as part of the 2024 Philadelphia Fringe Festival.
Rudy Caporaso, creator of the Vampire Wedding –“Vampires continue to exert an extraordinary fascination for people through books, films, tv as well as ballet, opera and musicals; vampires are a part of the zeitgeist and popular culture. We wanted to tap into that fasciation, and create a piece this year that would connect audiences with the gothic and fantastical world of vampires through music”.
Audiences are invited to drink with Dracula and toast the Count and his singing brides at their wedding reception. This is highly immersive cabaret, as we draw the audience into a world that has a live band, and music from Donna Summer to Blondie, from Connie Francis to Amy Winehouse, from the Shirelles to Gogol Bordello, all remixed especially for this interactive production. Plus two bars with themed cocktails! And then add a “Romanian gypsy” who will tell fortunes at the start of the evening’s festivities! Audiences are welcome to dance (and at times to sing along with the cast) and come in costume as their favorite creatures of the night, too. Created by Rudy Caporaso and performed by Caporaso, Riley Irvine, Stevie Reynolds and Tabbie Wismer, directed by Rosey Hay.
Music by local queer Philadelphia band Downdresser, featuring Mike Collins (drums, acoustic guitar, Samuel Harper (guitar), Viola Pasquerello (guitar), Mattie Wentz (piano/keyboard, trumpet) and Diana Williamson (guitar, drums).
“REV’s Death Is A Cabaret Ol’ Chum: A Graveyard Cabaret, which we presented in Laurel Hill Cemetery, was an audience favorite and top ticket seller for several years at the Philly Fringe. We also partnered with the Cemetery to present Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and a Jacobean tragedy, The Witch of Edmonton.”
Tickets to My Big Fang Vampire Wedding are currently on sale with this link:
http://www. https://phillyfringe.org/events/my-big-fang-vampire-wedding/
General admission is $30, student/artist tickets are $20
There is a cash bar
More information on REV Theatre Company can be found at www.revtheatrecompany.org or on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/REVTheatreCompany
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