“Dance of the Vampires” opened on Dec. 9 to “lukewarm reviews and mediocre daily sales. The producers had hoped to fight the show’s poor critical reception with new television advertising, but the last two weeks proved particularly difficult, as the weekly box office take dipped below $500,000. (The show’s weekly running costs are about $600,000.) At $12 million, ‘Vampires’ ranks among the most expensive losers in Broadway history, taking its place alongside famous flops like ‘Capeman’ and ‘Carrie’.”