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The ACT theater Dracula did several things that were super interesting:

1) The cast is highly condensed - only 7 actors. Most of the condensed characters were as per usual: though all three of Lucy's suitors wer mentioned, the only one we saw was Dr Seward. However! They also entirely cut Van Helsing and gave his role as vampire expert to Mina. I've never seen a Dracula without a Van Helsing before and it was weird and novel and pretty great.

2) Mina also got to kill Dracula, which I always approve of.

3) Until he reached England, Dracula was a super unsettling puppet.

4) The curtain call music was Cry Little Sister from The Lost Boys and I had to explain to all my siblings was I was suddenly laughing so hard.


We have a tradition of debriefing over gelato after theater and today I discovered that, despite knowing me and having to put up with my Dracula nonsense for years, none of my siblings are conversant with any version other than the 1931 film. I feel I really should rectify that.

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Okay, apparently the Dracula play genuinely scared one of my sisters, which I did not expect as I got past all my fear of Dracula at age 10, because I was a monster kid. (After which, he essentially became my childhood power fantasy, so...)

So now I am texting her reassuring things about how she has garlic and a rosary and anyway, he has to be invited in and I really shouldn't laugh at her but god, this is so fucking funny.