the Rock Opera

MUSIC and LYRICS by Don Linke

based on the novel by BRAM STOKER

Selected Guitar Arrangements by Michael Brandenburg

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Columbia-Tristar home video Dracula

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DRAKULA
A Rock Opera in Two Acts

YEAR:  1023 A.D.
PLACE:  Land of the Szekelys (Transylvania)

Drakula enters into an uncontrollable rage, pits himself against God, and vows to serve Satan as his master--thus embarking on an enduring reign of terror, steeped in blood . . .

"Fools, fools!  What devil or what witch was ever so great as Attila, whose blood is in these veins?"

     --Drakula

"I [have] read that every known superstition in the world is gathered in the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of imaginative whirlpool."

     --Jonathan Harker

"'Must you go?  Oh!  Young Herr, must you go?'   She was in such an excited state that she seemed to have lost her grip of what German she knew, and mixed it all up with some other language which I did not know at all."

--Jonathan Harker (and Peasant Woman)

"I am Drakula; and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my house.   Come in; the night air is chill, and you must need to eat and rest."

     --Drakula

"Yes, I too can love."

     --Drakula

"It must be so nice to see strange countries.  I wonder if we--I mean Jonathan and I--shall ever see them together."

     --Mina Murray

". . . [W]e have slept together and eaten together, and laughed and cried together . . ."

     --Lucy Westenra

"Here I am, who shall be twenty in September, and yet I never had a proposal till to-day . . . and to-day I have had three."

     --Lucy Westenra

"Take care," he said, "take care how you cut yourself.  It is more dangerous than you think in this country."

     --Drakula

"All three had brilliant white teeth that shone like pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips.  There was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same time some deadly fear.  I felt in my heart a wicked, burning desire that they would kiss me . . . "

     --Jonathan Harker

"At least God's mercy is better than that of these monsters, and the precipice is steep and high.  At its foot a man may sleep--as a man.   Good-bye, all.  Mina!"

     --Jonathan Harker

"R.M.  Renfield, aetat 59. --Sanguine temperament; great physical strength; morbidly excitable; periods of gloom, ending in some fixed idea which I cannot make out."

     --Dr. Seward (journal entry)

"It looks like religious mania, and he will soon think that he himself is God."

     --Dr. Seward

"I don't want to talk to you; you don't count now; the Master is at hand."

     --Renfield

"I know where my thought are.  If Arthur only knew!  . . . Thank everybody for being so good to me!  Thank God!  Good night, Arthur."

     --Lucy Westenra

"He is a philosopher and a metaphysician, and one of the most admired scientists of his day; and he has, I believe, an absolutely open mind."

     --Dr. Seward

17.  DEAR MINA 
VOCALS - Deborah Hamm

"He has been under our care for nearly six weeks, suffering from a violent brain fever."

     --Sister Agatha, Hospital of St. Joseph
       and Ste. Mary

"How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams."

     --Lucy Westenra

"[T]he shock has been too great; the poor child cannot rally."

     --Dr. Seward

"In a sort of sleepwaking, vague, unconscious way she opened her eyes, which were now dull and hard at once, and said in a soft, voluptuous voice . . .   Kiss me!"

     --Dr. Seward

"And prove the very truth he most abhorred."

     --Dr. Seward (quoting Byron)

     --Dr. Seward

"But there remains a greater task:  to find out the author of all this our sorrow and to stamp him out."

     --Van Helsing

"The last conscious effort which imagination made was to show me a livid white face bending over me out of the mist."

     --Mina Harker

     --Dr. Seward

"Do you know what the place is?  Have you seen that awful den of hellish infamy--with the very moonlight alive with grisly shapes, and every speck of dust that whirls in the wind a devouring monster in embryo?"

     --Jonathan Harker
           (describing the Castle Drakula)

"[H]e was in life a most wonderful man.  Soldier, statesman, and alchemist . . ."

     --Dr. Seward (describing Drakula)

"[N]ow you shall come to my call."

     --Drakula

"[N]ow more than ever must we find him even if we have to follow him to the jaws of Hell!"

     --Van Helsing

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"I shall be glad as long as I live that even in that moment of final dissolution, there was in the face a look of peace, such as I never could have imagined might have rested there."

     --Mina Harker

THE END

CREDITS

Panel Study Preview, Milwaukee, WI
August, 1997

Drakula		Michael Brandenberg
Jonathan Harker		Joshua Parks
Mina		Ilona Lebedinsky
Lucy/Vampiress		Tyah Sartler
Seward/Peasant Woman		Karen Zimmermann
Van Helsing		Don Linke
Arthur		David Erdmann
Vampiress		Rachel Eggebrecht
Vampiress		Julie Hurt
Renfield		Russell Martocci
Dancer/Chorus		Holly Eales
Dancer/Chorus		Vanessa Hein
Dancer/Chorus		Derek Jacobs
Dancer/Chorus		Melissa Young
Narrator		Melanie Beres
Director		Melanie Beres
Choreography		Holly Eales
Musical Director		Michael Brandenberg
THE BAND
Michael Brandenberg		Lead Guitar
Drew Ritgers		Bass
Tony Jefferson		Drums
Scott Peterson		Guitar
Don Linke		Keyboards
ADDITIONAL VOCALS
Anjl Rodee		He Is Drakula
Celia Farran		Thank You
Deborah Hamm		Dear Mina
Rachel Raven		We Have Changed
Don Linke		(various)

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