Adapted for the stage by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston
Cast List (Double Casted Parts List Both Actors):
Maid: Jennifer Ford/Daniella Ferullo
Van Helsing: Mark Sasaki
Jonathon Harker: Chris Lynch/Matt Somogyi
Dr. Seward: Martin Lopez
Renfield: Michael Boxelitner
Butterworth (Attendant): Joseph Santi/Matthew Sasaki
Lucy Seward: Chelsea DiBlasi
Dracula: Patrick Koocheradis/Neil Rawate
Performances:
Sunday, October 24th, 2010 7:00PM
Monday, October 25th, 2010 7:00PM
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010 7:00PM
Thursday, October 28th, 2010 7:00PM
Friday, October 29th, 2010 7:00PM
Saturday, October 30th, 2010 7:00PM
Director: Brian Sheehan
Assistant Director: Chris Knabenshue
For ticket information, please contact our house manager, Juanita Aichler, at house@crespidrama.org.
The Cast:
To Be Announced. Auditions will be held August 23rd - 24th from 3-6PM in Room 19.
Audition Instructions:
Please read plot synopsis and character descriptions. There are 12 selected audition sides. Choose a character that you would like to audition. There are 5 male characters (Dracula, Renfield, Butterworth, Harker, Van Helsing) and 2 female characters (Lucy and Maid). I will most likely be double casting and possibly gender casting (switching a male role for a female role). Please be prepared to read a variety of roles and please be prepared to attend both casting sessions on Monday 8/23 and Tuesday 8/24 in Room 19. Auditions will be held from 3-6 PM.
Please print sides that you would like to read (by number) and bring to the audition.
Please email Mr. Sheehan with any questions or concerns. I can be reached at bsheehan@crespi.org
God Bless,
Mr. Sheehan
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Sides
#1 Seward-Harker
#2 Renfield-Van Helsing-Seward
#3 Van Helsing-Seward-Renfield
#4 Harker-Lucy-Seward-Van Helsing
#5 Van Helsing-Lucy-Harker-Seward
#6 Seward-Van Helsing-Harker
#7 Lucy-Harker
#8 Maid-Attendant-Seward-Dracula-Van Helsing
#9 Van Helsing-Renfield-Seward-Lucy
#10 Dracula-Van Helsing-Seward-Harker
#11 Lucy-Harker-Renfield-Van Helsing
#12 Dracula=Van Helsing-Seward-Harker
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Character Descriptions:
Count Dracula - A centuries-old vampire and Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula inhabits a crumbling castle in the Carpathian Mountains. Beneath a veneer of aristocratic charm, the count possesses a dark and evil soul. He can assume the form of an animal, control the weather, and he is stronger than twenty men. His powers are limited, however—for instance, he cannot enter a victim’s home unless invited, cannot cross water unless carried, and is rendered powerless by daylight.
Van Helsing - A Dutch professor, described by his former pupil Dr. Seward as “a philosopher and metaphysician, and one of the most advanced scientists of his day.” Called upon to cure the ailing Lucy. Van Helsing’s contributions are essential in the fight against Dracula. Unlike his comrades, Van Helsing is not blinded by the limitations of Western medicine: he knows that he faces a force that cannot be treated with traditional science and reason. Knowledgeable about vampire folklore, Van Helsing becomes Dracula’s chief antagonist and the leader of the group that hunts Dracula down and destroys him.
Jonathan Harker – Young Englishman, excitable, welll educated and well spoken. His fiancé is Lucy. He is extremely worried about her safety. Harker joins the team to destroy the evil that plaques the Sanitarium.
Lucy Seward - Mina’s best friend and an attractive, vivacious young woman. The second character to fall under Dracula’s spell, Lucy becomes a vampire, which compromises her much-praised virtue, and banishes her soul from the promise of eternal rest. Determined that such an end is unfit for an English lady of Lucy’s caliber, Van Helsing’s crew hunts down the demon she has become and kills it, following the rituals of vampire slaying, and thus restoring Lucy’s soul to her body and to heaven.
Dr. Seward - A talented doctor, formerly Van Helsing’s pupil. Seward is the administrator of an insane asylum not far from Dracula’s English home. Throughout the play, Seward conducts ambitious interviews with one of his patients, Renfield, in order to understand better the nature of life-consuming psychosis. His love for his daughter is strong and he dedicates himself to her care when she suddenly takes ill. After her death, he remains dedicated to fighting the count. Not a man of action or a force of character.
Renfield - Repulsive youth; face distorted, shifty eyes. A patient at Seward’s mental asylum. Renfield indulges a habit of consuming living creatures—flies, spiders, birds, and so on—which he believes provide him with strength, vitality, and life force. He falls under the spell of Count Dracula. He becomes Dracula’s servant. He is often misunderstood. Behind his madness, lies the truth. He truly understands who Count Dracula is and what the count is capable of accomplishing.
Maid- Attractive young girl, falls under the spell of Count Dracula. Has a flirtation with Butterworth, the attendant of the sanitarium. Maid is in charge of taking care of Lucy.
Butterworth- Attendant to Dr. Seward. Has a flirtation with Maid. Struggles to maintain Renfield. Renfield keeps escaping and Butterworth gets blamed.
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Plot Synopsis:
Lucy Seward, daughter of the physician in charge of a sanatorium near London, is mysteriously anemic. Doctor Van Helsing, a specialist in obscure diseases, suspects a vampire which according to legend, is an ugly soul that, grave-bound by day, roams the earth at night, and sustains its earthly life by sucking the blood of approachable victims. Instituting a search, Van Helsing uncovers Count Dracula as such a vampire and finding the grave, drives a stake through the heart of the corpse from which he comes, thus ending the vampire’s existence.
