I loved this years Dracula! I will most certainly be coming back for next years peformance! I just have one question, will Marc Bovino be Renfield for next yera and will Randolph Curtis Rand be play Count Dracula for net year as well? Those two were my favorite! That is mainly why I saw it twice this year and that is why I am going to see it next year as well!
I play the flute in my school’s band and I have a suggestion for a piece of music if you would like to have something new. We are playing The Pit and The Pendulum for out Halloween concert and the way that this song just makes you heart pump made me think about Dracula and how those two relate in the intensity! It was just a suggestion, you may go along with it if you would like!
Loved the show, I am still thinking about it and, if I have to, I will save up to go next year!

Kelli ♥

Imagine learning how to swim in a pool and then being thrown into a rushing river, with jagged rocks, a strong current, and two or three of your closest friends. You survive by relying first on your friends, and second, on your training – if either one fails, hopefully the other helps you get back up to the surface. It’s scary. It’s fun. It’s hard work.

For me, I have to trust that I’ve prepared well enough to be able to react in the moment, much like you would be forced to if thrown into that river. I’ve found that if I’m worried about remembering my lines, or how to breathe, that I’m already behind. I just have to trust, pay attention, and PLAY. There’s always going to be a degree of improvisation as things go differently from night to night, so I accept that, and actively try to listen out what exactly it is that is different from night to night, so that I can respond to it. Maybe it’s the relationship with the audience, maybe it’s one of my fellow actors on stage having a new breakthrough in a particular moment, or maybe it’s as simple as a communication breakdown, a dropped line, or a misplaced prop.

Rising to this challenge of being simultaneously in the moment while being aware of the story of which I’m a part is one of the hardest things I know how to do, and I’m not always successful at it, but I love the challenge. It’s a goal to strive for, and it allows me to be an eternal student of life, to seek to understand human narrative, human experience, and to see the world in gray rather than absolutes as I’m actively experiencing it. Sometimes we play the bad guy, sometimes the good, sometimes both at the same time depending on who is telling the story. Theatre is life, packaged in a more interesting box. In the moment it just happens, and sometimes it’s great, and sometimes it sucks, but after it’s through, if we’ve done our job right, we look back and say “Man, what a story!”
- David Brown

I know it is a very hard thing to put into words. So single word descriptions are alright.

Thank you.