Casting Information
Please check out the Casting Commitment to understand our selection process.
Audition
May 23 - 6 to 8 pm
May 25 - 1 to 4 pm
At The Biggar Museum and Gallery
Come out on May 23 or May 25 or book a specific time (link at the bottom of the page).
Five Roles: Typically 3M, 2F.
We also require on-stage Foley (sound) artist(s) and on-stage piano accompanist
Actor 1: Younger male presenting to play HARKER/SUITORS/BOSUN/ GRAVEDIGGER
JONATHAN HARKER: (RP British dialect) prim and proper and obsessive-compulsive real estate agent, frightened of his own shadow. Engaged to his childhood crush Lucy Westfeldt and enamoured of her fearlessness. Once bitten he loosens up…a lot…and becomes a Tom Jones-style rock star in leather pants.
LORD CAVENDISH: (Scottish dialect) Lucy’s suitor; a Scottish dolt.
LORD WINDSOR: (RP British dialect) Lucy’s suitor; posh, British and petulant.
LORD HAVEMERCY: (Elvis dialect) Lucy’s arrogant suitor from Memphis, a la Elvis.
BOSUN: (Irish dialect) a scurvy seaman who goes down with the ship in a storm.
GRAVEDIGGER: (cockney British dialect) a drunk gravedigger with a secret.
Actor 2: Older female presenting to play males DR. WESTFELDT/RENFIELD/CAPTAIN
DR. WESTFELDT: (RP British dialect) Lucy and Mina’s father, a blowhard; self-important misogynist given to proclamations. A doctor caring for the criminally insane, he has recently lost his wife to consumption.
RENFIELD: (cockney British dialect and salivary issues) insane patient of Dr. Westfeldt who lives to serve and loves to eat bugs. In a word, the dude is nuts.
CAPTAIN: (sea captain dialect) the salty captain of a doomed ship caught in a raging storm.
Actor 3: Younger female presenting to play LUCY/KITTY/DRIVER
LUCY WESTFELDT: (RP British dialect) brilliant plucky earth scientist daughter of Dr. Westfeldt, she is full of energy and the spirit of adventure and often underestimated because of her beauty. Engaged to Jonathan, but when Dracula moves to Whitby, she is curious about his strange ways and impressed by their similar interests.
KITTY: (cockney British dialect) a dotty kleptomaniac patient of Dr. Westfeldt’s, she serves as a maid in his house. Think Mrs. Lovett but servile and easily distracted.
DRIVER: (Eastern European or Russian dialect) the male, Transylvanian driver of the carriage carrying Jonathan to Dracula’s castle and tries to warn him. Borat meets Boris and Natasha.
Actor 4: Older male presenting to play females MINA/VAN HELSING
MINA WESTFELDT: (RP British dialect) the less attractive, less intelligent Westfeldt daughter, she lives in her sister Lucy’s shadow and is desperate for attention. She is immediately (and pathetically) receptive to Dracula’s charms.
DR. VAN HELSING: (German dialect a la Mel Brooks) brilliant and sturdy German vampire hunting doctor from the University of Shmutz. Deadly serious in the way Germans can be, she is accustomed to people not believing she is a real doctor. Strong, shmart, unt bold, she is a woman of action.
Actor 5: Sexy male presenting to play DRACULA
DRACULA: (Transylvanian dialect) Hugely sexy, magnetically handsome, rock star presence with a killer body. He is a narcissist whose greatest love is himself – and his leather pants. Bored with women falling all over him, he becomes obsessed with Lucy when he hears of her strength and adventurousness. The less she needs him, the more interested he is. He travels to Whitby to find her and make her his bride for eternity.
What To Expect At Auditions
A cold reading from the script.
A small group improv exercise.