Auditions for Dracula: A Comedy Of Terrors

DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS Have you ever wondered what would happen if you took Bram Stoker's legendary vampire tale and put it into a blender with Mel Brooks, and Monty Python? That's exactly what happens in this lightning-fast, laugh-out-loud, 90-minute, gender-bending romp. When her sister Mina falls ill with a mysterious disease of the blood, Lucy Westfeldt and her fiancé, Jonathan Harker, enlist the help of famed female vampire hunter Doctor Jean Van Helsing. Their hunt for the dangerous and sexy Count Dracula abounds with clever wordplay and quick-change antics. Five actors play over a dozen roles in this blood-curdlingly hilarious send-up of the literary classic.

CASTING ACTOR 1 - Male, 20s. Plays JONATHAN HARKER - British accent, prim and proper, obsessive-compulsive real estate agent, frightened of his own shadow. Engaged to his childhood crush Lucy Westfeldt, once bitten he loosens up and becomes a rock star in leather pants. LORD CAVENDISH - Scottish dialect. Lucy's suitor, a dolt. LORD WORTHINGTON - British accent. Lucy's suitor, posh and petulant. LORD HAVEMERCY - Texas Accent. Lucy's arrogant suitor from Memphis. BOSUN - Irish dialect. A scurvy seaman. GRAVEDIGGER - Cockney dialect. A drunk with a secret.

ACTOR 2 - Female, 30s-50s. Plays male roles. DR. WALLACE WESTFELDT - British accent, Lucy and Mina's father, a blowhard, self- important misogynist given to proclamations and posturing with his pipe, a doctor caring for the criminally insane, he has recently lost his wife to consumption. RENFIELD - Cockney dialect, salivary issues, insane patient who lives to serve and loves to eat bugs. In a word, the dude is nuts. CAPTAIN - Sea Captain dialect, salty captain of a doomed ship, MAN-EATING WOLF.

ACTOR 3 - Female, 20s. Plays LUCY WESTFELDT - British accent, brilliant, plucky earth scientist daughter of Dr. Westfeldt, full of energy and the spirit of adventure and often underestimated because of her beauty, engaged to Jonathan, but when Dracula shows up she is curious about his strange ways and impressed by their similar interests. KITTY RUTHERFORD - Cockney dialect. A dotty kleptomaniac patient of Dr. Westfeldt, she serves as a maid in his house. DRIVER - Eastern European or Russian accent, the male, Transylvanian driver of the carriage carrying Jonathan to Dracula's castle who tried to warn him. MAN-EATING WOLF.

ACTOR 4 - Male 30s-50s. Plays MINA WESTFELDT - British accent, the less attractive, less intelligent Westfeldt daughter, lives in her sister Lucy's shadow and is desperate for attention. She is immediately (pathetically) receptive to Dracula's charms. DR. JEAN VAN HELSING - German accent, Brilliant and sturdy vampire-hunting doctor from the University of Schmutz. Deadly serious, accustomed to people not believing she is a real doctor, strong, smart, bold, a woman of action. MAN-EATING WOLF.

ACTOR 5 - Male, 20s-30s. Plays COUNT DRACULA - Commanding European accent, hugely sexy, magnetically handsome, rock star presence with a killer body, a narcissist whose greatest love is himself - and his leather pants, bored with women falling all over him, becomes obsessed with Lucy, but the less she needs him, the more interested he is. He travels to England to find her and make her his bride for eternity.

AUDITION DATES: Monday, March 24 starting at 6:30 pm & Tuesday, March 25 starting at 6:30 pm CALLBACKS: Wednesday, March 26 at 6:30 FIRST REHEARSAL: Monday, March 31 PERFORMANCE DATES: May 2 - 18

PREPARE: Two minute comic monologue and bring photo & resume. Auditions are by appointment only. To make an appointment email casting@nosquare.org and indicate day and time preference. There is no pay.

Auditions, Rehearsals & Performances are at No Square Theatre, 384 Legion Street, Laguna Beach.

For questions email Joe Lauderdale at joe.lauderdale@nosquare.org