BWW Backstage: Video Preview of DRACULA

Welcome to my house, an enter of your own free will

Count Dracula. When one guy makes a play for another guy's wife, things can get pretty messy

So much blood in this show. And we've started to work with it a little bit

And it's really fun. Last night we started working with the blood in a sequence that it has to spray kind of everywhere

And it was that moment where the customer was like, okay, now you have to stay out of the line of fire

The vampire, of course, is Dracula. And after seeing it as a kid, Leonard Barrett Jr. realized he was born to play the role

This man belongs to me. Once we saw it, my brother would always comment on the fact that I slept like him

And it freaked him out. All through our childhood, we slept in the same room, and every time he'd come in, apparently, I'd be like this. I was not aware of it

The musical is actually a love triangle among Dracula, the bewitching Mina, and her husband, Jonathan

But the show also pulses with horror, so the relationships are, well, complicated

This must be my fiancée, Miss Mina Murray. There are scenes when Mina is terrified of Dracula and terrified of his power and terrified

of her own feelings for him. And in those moments it's really easy to see him as the monster

So you got kind of a good and evil concept going there And both of them have slices of the other There is almost a two aspect to Dracula Two in the sense when he wants a cookie he wants a cookie When he wants

milk, he wants milk. When he wants to go up, he wants to... It's just very pure. And it gets even

more complicated when you throw in another guy, Van Helsing, who's also obsessed with Dracula

and sets out to murder him. I think we've established in our society

that quite often the anti-hero becomes the hero. And I think it goes back and forth

I think people are cheering for Van Helsing part of the time and for Dracula the rest of the time

You'll do my bidding. You will taste the terror in the street

It's a frightening show with a monster in blood playing leading roles

Well, purely as an actor, it's a lot of fun. You get to get your hands dirty and really dig in

But it's gruesome. But the blood is also a metaphor for life and for sexuality

It has to be present. You have to see the characters deal with it

and they all have different feelings about blood. Good and evil, love and obsessions, and lots of blood

It all plays out in an eerie yet musical way in Dracula now through November 7th

For tickets, go to aurorafoxartscenter.org or call 303-739-1970. This is Rob Bogan for BroadwayWorld.com