#dracula stage play

[weirdlookindog]

Bela Lugosi in Dracula stage play, 1928.

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

Jonathan continues to be the most relatable character ever

[belalugosi1882]

Bela Lugosi as Dracula on stage (1928)

[coffinflop]

i love that tumblr immediately adopted jonathan harker as their good friend and pal bc in general jonathan has been kind of shafted by the popular culture surrounding and including dracula media……he is finally getting the respect he deserves

[shy-sapphic-ace]

Here is a (first draft of a) song for my (hypothetical) Dracula musical: The Bloofer Lady

Sung by: MAN 1, MAN 2, WOMAN 1, WOMAN 2, LUCY, MOTHER, CHILD, OTHER PEOPLE IN THE CROWD ACTING AS A CHORUS

— • — (this is just an outline, not proper stage directions or anything)

(A crowd of people, looking over news articles and talking together)

CROWD: Have you heard the news?

Have you heard the news?

There’s a monster on the loose!

The bloofer lady’s on the loose!

MAN 1: In the past few days

We’ve had the strangest cases

WOMAN 1: Children, nightly, disappearing

Then found again by morning

WOMAN 2: And with a wound in their throat

Above the collar of their coat

MAN 2: She lures them away into the shadows

And what happens then, who knows?

CROWD: Have you heard the news?

Have you heard the news?

There’s a monster on the loose!

The bloofer lady’s on the loose!

(Another part of the stage(?), where Lucy stands in shadows, her dress torn and hair loose, beckoning to a young boy who advances towards her)

LUCY: You sweet thing, come here

Nothing, nothing, nothing to fear

We’ll play together, as I feed

Come here, and let me make you bleed

(Lucy draws the child into the dark)

MOTHER (arriving onstage, distressed): My son, my son! He’s disappeared!

MAN 1 &2: Another victim, as we feared

MOTHER (sobbing): Oh, please, anyone! My son!

WOMAN 1&2: The bloofer lady’s taken another one

CROWD: Have you heard the news?

Have you heard the news?

There’s a monster on the loose!

The bloofer lady’s on the loose!

MAN 2: Children have made it into a game

MAN 1: Giving her “bloofer lady” as a wicked name

WOMAN 2: Don’t let your young ones out of sight

WOMAN 1: Lest they disappear into the night

MOTHER: Help me find my son, anybody

Save him from this bloofer lady

MAN 1: It’ll be too late for that now

MAN 2 & WOMAN 1: But let’s search for him anyhow

(A few people search the stage)

CROWD: Have you heard the news?

Have you heard the news?

There’s a monster on the loose!

The bloofer lady’s on the loose!

(WOMAN 2 finds the child lying on the ground by a bush, goes to help him up. He looks dizzy and confused, blood on his neck)

WOMAN 2: Oh! You poor child, come!

(to the mother) Is this your missing son?

MOTHER (seeing the child is hurt): Oh, God have mercy, this can’t be true

What creature did this to you?

CHILD (spoken): … It was the bloofer lady, ma. She wanted to play.

(His mother draws him close and sobs)

MAN 1&2: Watch your children, keep them near

Darkened nights are something to fear

WOMAN 1&2: All our young ones are in danger

When our streets are roamed by a monster

CROWD (more hushed this time): Have you heard the news?

Have you heard the news?

There’s a monster on the loose!

The bloofer lady’s on the loose!

(The crowd slowly disperses and the stage empties)

[eviltothecore13]

Comparison images: Raúl Juliá and Jeremy Brett as Dracula

[bonbongiveshell]

I really don't understand how you can look at the character of Lucy westenra and then come up with the conclusion that she's shallow and seducing dracula and doesn't have any depth beyond being a sexy lamp.

[dont-offend-the-bees]

how have i been cast as a vladimir twice in the same show

[algernon97]

People who are fans of Dracula the book -- you have not known true pain until sitting through the godawful Steven Dietz play adaptation of it. Good god was that a horrible play I just sat through.

[stylishanachronism]

Last night I had a dream that there was a third(?) Dracula musical, but this one was actually good, like not 'technically proficient' but Actually Good, and I'm very sad it doesn't exist, because what I remember of it was *very* fun.

[weirdlookindog]

Program for theatrical tour of Dracula, 1943

[ophelialoveshandsomemen]

Say what you will about Van Helsing 2004; hate it, love it, be indifferent, But the All-Hallow's masquerade ball went sooooo hard and it had zero right to do so! It's a fun, campy, monster mash movie with wonderfully dated ( and expensive) cgi and non-stop action meant to be a popcorn flick one takes out to watch around spooky season. And it has this* chef's kiss* GORGEOUS 6 minute sequence plopped arbitrarily in the second act, which unexpectedly surpasses nearly every other ball in the last 30+ years of film( notable exception being the Cinderella 2015 ball) for literally no reason other than to be dramatic af.

Like feast your eyes on this Gothic masterpiece!!! Who doesn't want to immediately live in this picture?!??

They used those candles with oil in them so that they would have real candles, real string orchestra( I believe), probably around 100 real life extras( something which is tragically absent in modern film), said extras are all in beautiful fully decked-out costumes( which are in luxuriously dark colours, but nearly no fully black, another thing you cannot say for much modern cinema), REAL CIRQUE DU SOLEIL PERFORMERS for all the acrobatics!!!! Hell, instead of filming in a sound stage, where they could control the reverb and the acoustics and the size of the set and the bloody lighting ( they apparently had a heck of a time emulating the firelight for this sequence) and the temperature( it's very cold in stone churches!) better, they filmed in a Baroque church in Prague! As I said, peak dramatic splendour, jfc...

Think about that a second...They filmed a vampire masquerade in a Baroque Catholic Church( St. Nicholas' in Lesser Town, if you were curious) with amazing over-the-top acoustics and marble statues and real, tiled floors and marble pillars and a choir loft which they very much utilized, covered the pipe organ and the altar with a grand brocade curtain so it wouldn't be so obviously a, you know, a church! And there's a gold gilt elevated and canopied pulpit into which they put two vampire kiddies for, again, the sake of being dramatic.

And the costumes! They remind me of the 25th anniversary Phantom of the Opera Masquerade costumes. Same quality, like they're old, well-cared-for costumes pulled out of a warehouse, instead of fast industry churn-outs. With lots of trim and colour and masks and lace and feathers and..just...ugh.. they are all perfect! Just look at all the head pieces on the ladies and the hats on all the gentleman ( save Dracula of course) and the powdered wigs on the musicians. ANNNNDD! The dresses are historically correct!!!!!! It's the 80's bustle era! Nobody does the 80's bustle era in film anymore and it's a bummer. Oh and one other thing! Anna's ( and other women's) hair, at least here in the ball, is also historically accurate because it's all pinned up! None of those fucken modern beachwaves at a ball! Everybody's got updo's!

Gah, I swear, Dracula in his gold cloak really does things to me in this scene!

By the way, the acrobatics are bonkers in here for just background stuff!! Especially the random guys on unicycles and the dude playing the violin whilst standing on a ball...Like....WHAT?

Anyways, all this to say, that this masquerade ball feels sooo real and tangible and because of that it blows every other film out of the water, and no, I will not change my mind!!!!!

Here's a few more gifs, bcuz, why the hell not, this scene is sexy as fuu*ck?

Alright I need to go to bed now.

[belalugosi1882]

Bela Lugosi with Hazel Whitmore in the Dracula play (1928)

[vamptastic]

dracula was good :)

[theabigailthorn]

An Off-Brand Post About the Kim Petras Concert

this post isn't about acting or youtube stuff I just want to say I had a really fun time at the Kim Petras concert last night :)

I saw her four years ago and wow, she's really gotten better - like she was a good singer before but now she's really got the pipes! Great outfits, great backup dancers, also shout out the guy who mopped the stage before she came on: I see you working hard to make it safe and enjoyable for everyone, thanks buddy!

Thank you so much to all the people who recognised me and came up and say hello: I'm really touched by how much you enjoy my work? I often feel that what I make is silly or not good enough but it makes me so happy when people get something out of it. I'm also so happy you're excited for Dracula's Ex-Girlfriend!

Shout out to the cute girl who hit on me as we were leaving and gave me her number. You might have googled me by now, perhaps you found this post - hello! I'll text you when I get back from LA; I think you might be a bit young for me 'cause you mentioned you're a final year student, but hey maybe we can just go for a friendly coffee and chat about the concert :) I need to get a burner phone first (I've had problems in the past with stalkers pretending not to know who I am) so I may not give you my actual number until we've gotten to know each other properly - sorry, my life is strange sometimes, being a public figure makes it hard to meet people but I'm flattered you approached me

Also, the opening act - Georgia - WOW, she was so good! What a talent! I'm gonna check out her music, she was so heartfelt and it was amazing how she played the drums and keyboard and sang all at once! I gave her a big thumbs up and she smiled at me!

I was the only person in the venue wearing a mask? Made me feel slightly odd but I have to film a movie next week and I didn't want to get sick, so. (I took it off to snap a quick selfie, which was perhaps a little cheeky but I wanted to remember how much I was smiling)

Wild that the last time I saw Kim I was still in the closet! How times change!

[ibrithir-was-here]

Jonathan’s not about to let his wife go off to hunt down Dracula on an empty stomach. What the Professor doesn’t know won’t hurt him, probably, yet

Based off this one from the 1927 stage play