The run closed January 2, 2005
- Opened
- August 19, 2004
- Closed
- January 2, 2005
- Performances
- 157
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Belasco Theatre
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 111th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it21 named
Stephen Mckinley Henderson
Kelli O Hara
Bart Shatto
Shonn Wiley
Celina Carvajal
Melissa Fagan
Jenifer Foote
Pamela Jordan
Elizabeth Loyacano
Tracy Miller
Matthew Nardozzi
Jennifer Hughes
Megan Reinking
Michael Soloway
7 of these 21 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 14 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters9 roles recorded
Thomas Borchert Drew Sarich Count Dracula
Melissa Errico Mina Murray
Darren Ritchie Jonathan Harker
Stephen Henderson Abraham Van Helsing
Shonn Wiley John Seward
Kelli O'Hara Lucy Westenra
Don Stephenson Renfield
Martin Pasching Arthur Holmwood
Bart Shatto Quincey Morris
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Des McAnuff
- Choreographer
- Mindy Cooper
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
Dracula, the Musical is a musical based on the original 1897 Victorian novel by Bram Stoker. The score is by Frank Wildhorn, with lyrics and book by Don Black and Christopher Hampton. The show had its regional premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse, La Jolla, California, in 2001, playing to 115% capacity, earning the highest paid capacity for any world premiere production in the playhouse's history. It then premiered on Broadway in 2004, starring Tom Hewitt as the vampire Count and Melissa Errico as the woman he loves, Mina Harker. A brief nude scene in which Dracula seduces Lucy Westenra (played by Kelli O'Hara) received much publicity, as did the show's numerous special effects. Despite that,…
- He wrote thirteen new musicals in ten years, across the world: Camille Claudel (2003, Goodspeed Opera House), Dracula, the Musical (2004, La Jolla Playhouse and Broadway), Waiting for the Moon (2005, Lenape Performing Arts Center), Cyrano de Bergerac, The Musical (2006, Japan), Rudolph – The Last Kiss (2006, Budapest),… A History of the American Musical Theatre No Business Like Nathaniel Hurwitz Tay, p. 273
- After that, Michael David and the Dodgers had a run of critically maligned and money-losing shows—Footloose; High Society; Dracula, the Musical; Good Vibrations. Singular Sensation the Triumph of Broadway the Triumph of Michael Riedel First A, p. 275
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Dracula, The Musical at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.