Gilbert & Sullivan's Dracula
Mitch Benn
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An imaginary (but weirdly plausible) collaboration between Bram Stoker and his fellow West End Theatre denizens Gilbert and Sullivan in 1898; previewed once at the Savoy Theatre and then “lost” until now…
This began life as a one-off joke for the BBC Radio 2 comedy show “It’s Been A Bad Week” in 2001; in 2024 I revisited the idea and extended it to a ten minute “mini musical” for YouTube, which got a lot of attention after I edited the 1992 Francis Ford Coppola movie to it:
I’m currently working on extending it to a 60 minute version with a view to actually staging it as a full comic operetta in the autumn of 2026.