Sucked In

Frequent Flyer Productions embraces the dark side.

A A A Comments By Mark Dragotta Thursday, Oct 25 2007

Even if you don't care for the acrobatics and artsy-fartsy interpretive dance that goes into something like Cirque du Soleil, you may be inexplicably drawn to Theatre of the Vampires, showing tonight and tomorrow night at 8 p.m. in Macky Auditorium at the University of Colorado at Boulder. For starters, it's PG-13 and loaded with monsters, blood, murder, moral struggle and campy humor. "It's Ann Rice meets Rocky Horror meets Cirque du Soleil," says Nancy Smith, artistic director of Frequent Flyer Productions.

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Vampires is the story of an American journalist, Jennifer Popple, arriving in Paris to do a story on the Theatre of the Vampires — an undead theater company pretending to be mortals while playing vampires on stage — and getting "sucked into the show" by the emcee. During the course of a rehearsal, she witnesses an overzealous immortally challenged wannabe transform, through interpretive dance, into a bloodsucker. Then the flipping-and-flying vampires put on a variety show for the audience as Popple decides the fate of her mortality. "It's sexy, creepy and campy," says Smith. "It's a good time whether you go out with your friends or with a date. People come in costumes. It's fun with a few little surprises."

Macky Auditorium is at 17th Street and University Avenue. Tickets range from $13 to $39; VIP tickets ($69) include parking, a decadent dessert prior to the show, killer seats, a private beer-tasting at intermission and a chance to meet the cast. For more information, go to www.frequentflyers.org.
Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 8 p.m., 2007

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