Word: dracula
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...adds a flavor reminiscent enough of blood that it will make you shudder. Best of all, the cocktail leaves you with stained, dripping red lips. Roasted pumpkin seeds, candied apples and—of course—mini chocolate bars are all good accompaniments for this concoction. Buffy fans, Dracula lovers and Halloween aficionados alike will appreciate a round of this spooky cocktail. So enjoy a night full of witches, goblins and ghouls, but don’t neglect the spirits...
...solid thesping, hire the Brits. McGregor tamps down his innate exuberance to play stern baby-sitter to Anakin but lends his scenes a thoughtful weight. And Lee has the tired majesty of a Dracula shaken awake in his sepulcher but with a few good bites left in him. He enunciates plot points like a teacher with a thrilling classroom style; his voice has cello music in it. His character also cues the film's one giddy musical moment: when Dooku rides a celestial scooter, composer John Williams borrows The Wizard of Oz's theme music for the Wicked Witch...
...treatment of standard theater elements—certainly of language—Wellman can be rather vampirish himself. He takes an old word or phrase, drains it dry and then raises it from the dust transformed. Characters in Dracula contort words in eerily brilliant ways, which only grow eerier as they become more possessed (“there is hair growing into my head,” sings one of the particularly mad). When they can’t find the words to describe the alien situations they come upon, they are forced to invent their...
Some performers, nevertheless, deserve special praise for their delivery of the language. Jason T. Fitzgerald ’04, playing doomed victim Jonathan Harker lends a cadence and lucidity to the nonsense he spews. And David N. Huyssen ’02, playing Dracula sans black cape (it’s white!) but with a dynamite Transylvanian accent, releases sentences into the air with such surety and depth that they linger like smoke rings...
...This Dracula, both the script and the production, is ultimately commendable for its excellent use of its medium. Though it’s hard to tell whether a theatergoer will like or even appreciate this show, what is certain is that it won’t soon be forgotten...