The most famous bloodsucker of all is at Coronado Playhouse through Nov. 28, in John Mattera’s adaptation of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.”
You remember the story: poor Jonathan Harker (Kyle Young) is sent from London to the big, dingy Transylvanian castle of Count Dracula (Hunter C. Smith) to sell him some London real estate.
Dracula’s ominous voice and all-too-solicitous demeanor soon creep Jonathan out, as does the way he swishes around in a colorful full-length cape vaguely resembling a comforter.
Jonathan is especially nonplussed when he learns the Count wants to buy the property closest to the house his lovely fiancée Lucy Westenra (Ruth Carlson) shares with her parents.
Of course the Count does just that, and while on his new property meets and wows Lucy, who soon after worries her parents with her increasingly pale and sickly appearance and her sudden habit of disappearing for longer and longer “walks” in the neighborhood. Even Lucy’s best friend Mina (Christina Phares) seems to find the Count irresistible.
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