THE HOUSE OF BESARAB opened Thursday, Nov. 12, playing Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 9pm and Sundays at 8pm through Sunday, Dec. 20 at The Hollywood American Legion Post 43, located at 2035 N. Highland Av. in Hollywood, halfway between Franklin Avenue and the Hollywood Bowl. General admission is $40.00 (on-site parking is $5.00). Due to mature themes and the availability of alcohol, no one under 21 will be admitted. For reservations, call (323) 960-7612 or online www.plays411.com/besarab.
In the unique tradition of the mega-hit environmental stage production Tamara, producer/director/co-writer Terance Duddy is pleased to announce a brand new presentation to breathe theatrical life back into one of Los Angeles’ most significant cultural monuments: the Hollywood American Legion Post on Highland Avenue near the Hollywood Bowl. Mr. Duddy and his co-author Theodore Ott have created a fascinating new site-specific environmental adaptation of the Dracula legend, with audience members beginning their memorable adventure eating and drinking in the venue’s legendary Deco Bar-favorite wateringhole of folks named Bogart, Chaplin and Gable-then will be led into the Legion Hall’s grand 55-foot Memorial Atrium by that notorious bug-eating escaped mental patient Renfield (played by David Himes) to be greeted in his comfy coffin by the restlessly slumbering Count Dracula himself (Michael Hegedus).
After that initial welcome from their blood-drinking host, audience members will choose to either follow Dracula into the facility’s massive Auditorium or wait in the Atrium for the arrival of the Count’s four nervous guests: scholarly vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing (Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Best Actor Award winner Travis Michael Holder); the conflicted proprietor of Renfield’s former institution Dr. Seward (Terra Shelman); and those traumatized young lovers Jonathan Harker (Dane Bowman) and his lovely fiancé, the somnambulant Mina (Chase McKenna).
Audience members will then journey along with the action from incredible room to incredible room in the massive American Legion Hall as Duddy and Ott’s take on the infamous Bram Stoker’s classic horror story unfolds anew, introducing them along the way to Slava (Jason Parsons), a chained captive villager Dracula is slowly turning into a wolfman-vampire hybrid; a helpful but spooky elderly gypsy woman (Miliza Milo); and the Count’s two buxom pregnant vixens Cruza and Riva (Megan Harwick and Sara Spink).
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