Hit Off-Broadway show Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors has announced casting ahead of its London premiere at the Menier Chocolate Factory.
The show is playing at the Menier Chocolate Factory this spring, from 8 March to 3 May 2025.
Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors will star James Daly (La Cage aux Folles, Wendy and Peter Pan) as Dracula after originating the role Off-Broadway; award-winning West End star Dianne Pilkington (The Wizard of Oz, Young Frankenstein, Wicked) as Dr. Westfeldt and others; three-time Olivier Award-nominee Charlie Stemp (Kiss Me Kate, Crazy For You) as Jonathan Harker and others; and Safeena Ladha (The 39 Steps, The Great Gatsby) as Lucy Westfeldt and others.
Further casting is to be announced.
The show reimagines Bram Stoker’s Dracula with a Gen Z pansexual Count Dracula in the midst of an existential crisis. The talented cast switch costumes and roles during this freewheeling send-up, that plays with sexuality and gender norms to celebrate goth, camp, and the magic of live theatre itself.
In the treacherous mountains of Transylvania, Jonathan Harker (Charlie Stemp), a meek English estate agent, takes a harrowing journey to meet a new and mysterious client, who happens to be the most terrifying(ly narcissistic) monster the world has ever known: Count Dracula (James Daly)! When the Count sets his sights on Harker’s fiancé, the brilliant young earth scientist Lucy Westfeldt (Safeena Ladha), he meets his match for the first time – as well as a slew of other colourful characters including vampire hunter Jean Van Helsing, insect connoisseur Renfield and behavioral psychiatrist Wallace Westfeldt (Dianne Pilkington), whose British country estate doubles as a free-range mental asylum.
Co-written and directed by Gordon Greenberg (The Baker’s Wife, Barnum – Menier Chocolate Factory) and co-written by Steve Rosen, the creative team also includes Set Design by Tijana Bjelajac, Costume Design by Tristan Raines, Lighting Design by Ben Cracknell, and Sound Design by Yvonne Gilbert.
The show enjoyed a successful run Off-Broadway, playing New World Stages until January last year.
Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors is running at the Menier Chocolate Factory from 8 March to 3 May 2025.
Currently playing at the Menier is The Producers, until 1 March 2025.
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