Darkness falls, wolves howl and lunatics sing in this hysterical Rick Abbot spoof. It's a madcap musical that spins the legend of everyone's favorite vampire into a hilarious cabaret act complete with music, dancing and special effects.
When Rick Abbot wrote this parody in the early '80s, the idea of setting a gothic horror story to music must have seemed worthy of the questioning double-take in this production's title. Who knew that Phantom of the Opera and Jekyll & Hyde, the Musical were on the horizon? But where those shows take themselves quite seriously, Abbott’s Dracula, The Musical? pays as much homage to Mel Brooks as it does to Bram Stoker.

Set in 19th century England, the story centers around a madhouse run by one Dr. Seward. His new neighbor is a certain Hungarian Count with designs on the neck of the doctor’s daughter Mina. When the crazed vampire hunter Van Helsing arrives to warn the household, the family is slow to grasp the danger that she is in. How slow? When Van Helsing warns them that after the third bite on Mina’s neck, she "would become the same dreaded thing that he himself must forever be", Sophie responds: "Hungarian?" But when the Count spirits Mina off to his castle, it’s up to Van Helsing, Seward, his ditzy wife Sophie, surly maid Nelly, Mina’s saucy friend Bubu and resident madman Boris Renfield to save her.

This is the fourth of Rick Abbot's works The Players have presented. Our productions of June Groom, Play On! and The Bride of Brackenloch rank among the funniest of our offerings. So, here we go again...

Performed at:
Shannondell Performing Arts Center
10000 Shannondell Drive
Audubon, PA 19403
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Dates:

performance: October 13, 2006 8:00 PM
October 14, 2006 8:00 PM
October 20, 2006 8:00 PM
October 21, 2006 8:00 PM
October 22, 2006 2:00 PM
October 27, 2006 8:00 PM
October 28, 2006 2:00 PM