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[0:01] Alan Tudyk: Hello, and thank you for inviting me into your ears.

[0:03] Alan Tudyk: The following podcast is a benefit for the Actors Fund and Broadway Cares COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund.

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[0:16] Alan Tudyk: And if you don't, I'll come to your house.

[0:19] Alan Tudyk: Dracula, a Comedy of Terrors is brought to you by the Actors Fund, Broadway Cares and Social Distancing.

[0:33] Alan Tudyk: If it hadn't happened, this podcast wouldn't have happened.

[0:38] Alan Tudyk: Previously on Dracula, a Comedy of Terrors.

[0:42] Alan Tudyk: Dr. Van Helsing arrives from Germany to help save Mina.

[0:46] Laura Benanti: Your daughter is in grave danger. This is no ordinary insect bite.

[0:51] Christopher Sieber: But Mina continues to fall deeper under the vampire's curse.

[0:55] Annaleigh Ashford: Blood! Blood! I must have blood!

[1:01] Alan Tudyk: And as she is whisked away by Renfield, Lucy and Jonathan's relationship is tested.

[1:06] Laura Benanti: What if just once I want to move through life without fear, with a courageous partner rather than a coward?

[1:11] Christopher Sieber: And Dracula sees an opening with Lucy.

[1:14] Christopher Sieber: Come with me. I can give you an extraordinary life.

[1:17] Laura Benanti: But it soon becomes clear that the charming Transylvanian has a dark secret.

[1:21] Annaleigh Ashford: What are you saying?

[1:22] Laura Benanti: Count Dracula is a vampire.

[1:25] Alan Tudyk: We take you now to the thrilling conclusion of our story as Dr. Van Helsing, Dr. Westfeldt and Jonathan ride horseback in hot pursuit of Dracula.

[1:34] Laura Benanti: Can these horses ride any faster? We've not a minute to waste.

[1:38] Jeff Kready: Butterscotch is rather unsteady in all this fog. Shouldn't we err on the side of caution?

[1:43] Laura Benanti: It's too late for caution, Jonathan.

[1:45] Laura Benanti: We must save Mina's soul.

[1:47] Annaleigh Ashford: Be warned. She will be prone to violent behavior.

[1:50] Jeff Kready: Violent?

[1:51] Laura Benanti: Yes. And anyone she bites would be affected similarly.

[1:55] Jeff Kready: You know, I'm thinking this isn't quite safe. And tonight is laundry night, so...

[1:59] Jeff Kready: Jonathan?

[2:00] Jeff Kready: From approaching the malls, I can feel it in the air.

[2:08] Laura Benanti: Carfax is just on the other side of this cemetery.

[2:12] Jeff Kready: It's awfully dark.

[2:14] Jeff Kready: You know what? Why don't you go directly through the cemetery while I scout out the well-lit perimeter?

[2:23] Laura Benanti: Do you see what I see?

[2:24] Jeff Kready: Fresh footprints.

[2:26] Jeff Kready: And an old box of baking powder.

[2:28] Laura Benanti: He's clearly been here very recently.

[2:30] Annaleigh Ashford: Well spotted. I say, you really are very perceptive.

[2:34] Jeff Kready: You're a good sight cleverer than any wom...

[2:37] Jeff Kready: I'm sorry. Any doctor I've met before.

[2:41] Laura Benanti: I have to apologize. It seems I misjudged you when you first arrived.

[2:45] Jeff Kready: That was my mistake, and I feel... like a gas bag.

[2:50] Laura Benanti: That's quite all right, Wallace.

[2:52] Laura Benanti: It takes a very big man to admit his mistakes.

[2:56] Jeff Kready: And I happen to be partial to a very big man.

[3:00] Laura Benanti: I see. Dr. Van Helsing.

[3:04] Laura Benanti: Perhaps when all this is over, we could see each other in a less macabre context?

[3:11] Jeff Kready: Yeah, I would like that.

[3:13] Jeff Kready: And please, call me Jean.

[3:16] Annaleigh Ashford: Careful, missus.

[3:18] Annaleigh Ashford: Oh, oh. It's just a gravedigger.

[3:20] Annaleigh Ashford: Strange goings-on in there, didn't I?

[3:22] Jeff Kready: What do you mean?

[3:24] Annaleigh Ashford: Grave robbers? Hooligans?

[3:25] Gravedigger: No, sir. But most peculiar thing, I just started me night shift when I noticed what looked like a cape fluttering in the wind.

[3:34] Gravedigger: I ran outside to see what it was, and I could have swore it were the Grim Reaper himself, all in black.

[3:41] Gravedigger: And then suddenly, he just lifted off the ground and flew into the sky like he was a bird or a bat or something.

[3:50] Laura Benanti: A bat? Are you sure?

[3:52] Gravedigger: Truth be told, I am very drunk.

[3:55] Gravedigger: Still, which way did he fly?

[3:57] Gravedigger: Towards Corfax.

[3:59] Laura Benanti: Of course. Dracula!

[4:01] Jeff Kready: Thank you for your help, young man.

[4:03] Gravedigger: I'm a woman.

[4:11] Christopher Sieber: Lucy, my queen.

[4:13] Christopher Sieber: Look at you sleeping soundly in your beautiful bed.

[4:17] Christopher Sieber: The way your chest moves gently up and down with each delicate breath.

[4:22] Christopher Sieber: Now that I have tasted your blood in me now, I want you even more.

[4:28] Annaleigh Ashford: Oh, Jonathan, it's you.

[4:30] Christopher Sieber: It's not Jonathan.

[4:32] Christopher Sieber: Count! What have you done with my sister?

[4:35] Christopher Sieber: She's in a better place now.

[4:37] Annaleigh Ashford: You killed her?

[4:38] Christopher Sieber: What? No. She's at my house.

[4:41] Christopher Sieber: It's very comfortable. I got cable last week.

[4:44] Annaleigh Ashford: You must return her at once.

[4:46] Christopher Sieber: I shall, when you agree to be with me for all eternity.

[4:49] Annaleigh Ashford: All eternity?

[4:51] Annaleigh Ashford: Is there room for negotiation?

[4:53] Christopher Sieber: No.

[4:55] Christopher Sieber: I'm the only one who truly loves you without reservation.

[4:58] Annaleigh Ashford: You do not know the meaning of the word.

[5:00] Christopher Sieber: Reservation?

[5:01] Christopher Sieber: No. Love.

[5:02] Annaleigh Ashford: What are you talking about? I have loved you since I first laid eyes on you.

[5:05] Christopher Sieber: How many women have you been with this week alone?

[5:07] Annaleigh Ashford: Me? My sister? That poor girl in Saltwick Park?

[5:11] Christopher Sieber: They meant nothing to me.

[5:13] Christopher Sieber: It is you I really desire.

[5:15] Annaleigh Ashford: If you really believe you love me, then you must release Mina before we go any further.

[5:21] Christopher Sieber: I don't have much time. The sun is starting to rise.

[5:25] Christopher Sieber: Let me save my sister first.

[5:27] Christopher Sieber: And tomorrow, I shall be yours.

[5:31] Christopher Sieber: Sweet. Until tomorrow.

[5:41] Annaleigh Ashford: This is it. The crumbling old mansion I sold him.

[5:44] Annaleigh Ashford: Count Dracula!

[5:46] Annaleigh Ashford: We demand to see you!

[5:47] Annaleigh Ashford: So we can kill you!

[5:49] Jeff Kready: Let's not lead with that.

[5:51] Kathy Fitzgerald: Blimey! You can't just go walking into people's...

[5:54] Jeff Kready: Oh, Dr. Westfeldt!

[5:57] Kathy Fitzgerald: Kitty! What are you doing here? What has he done to you?

[6:00] Kathy Fitzgerald: Well, paid me a living wage is what he done.

[6:03] Kathy Fitzgerald: And got me a new therapist to treat me little pathology.

[6:07] Jeff Kready: Is that our harpsichord?

[6:09] Kathy Fitzgerald: No.

[6:11] Kathy Fitzgerald: What can I do for you?

[6:13] Annaleigh Ashford: Where is Mina?

[6:14] Annaleigh Ashford: We demand to see her now!

[6:16] Kathy Fitzgerald: She's right ahead. She's floating around here somewhere.

[6:19] Annaleigh Ashford: Wonderful. Please go get her.

[6:21] Kathy Fitzgerald: Not in me job description.

[6:23] Annaleigh Ashford: Wait! Kitty!

[6:24] Annaleigh Ashford: That was rude.

[6:26] Annaleigh Ashford: If we want to save Mina, we have no choice but to split up into groups.

[6:29] Jeff Kready: Groups? There's three of us.

[6:31] Annaleigh Ashford: Right. I'll go with Wallace.

[6:33] Annaleigh Ashford: See you soon, Jonathan. Godspeed!

[6:36] Jeff Kready: But I thought...

[6:47] Annaleigh Ashford: Perhaps I ought to sing to make myself a little less afraid.

[6:51] Annaleigh Ashford: Yes.

[6:53] Annaleigh Ashford: Raindrops on roses.

[6:57] Annaleigh Ashford: Oh! Look at that. It worked.

[7:00] Annaleigh Ashford: And whiskers on kittens.

[7:03] Annaleigh Ashford: Oh! Oh! Oh!

[7:07] Annaleigh Ashford: Hello? Hello? Is someone there?

[7:09] Jeff Kready: Jonathan. Jonathan.

[7:12] Jeff Kready: Yes? That's me.

[7:14] Annaleigh Ashford: Is that you, Mina?

[7:18] Annaleigh Ashford: There's a glow about you.

[7:20] Annaleigh Ashford: Vampire bites do that to a girl.

[7:23] Annaleigh Ashford: It actually really works for you.

[7:25] Annaleigh Ashford: Please come closer.

[7:29] Jeff Kready: I was told to keep my distance.

[7:31] Jeff Kready: The doctors were very clear about the dangers of infection.

[7:34] Jeff Kready: And I've no handiwipes.

[7:36] Annaleigh Ashford: You don't know what it is to be alone.

[7:41] Annaleigh Ashford: Mina, your teeth look so sharp.

[7:44] Annaleigh Ashford: Don't come any closer. No, please.

[8:00] Jeff Kready: Hello?

[8:03] Jeff Kready: Mina?

[8:05] Annaleigh Ashford: Mina, can you hear me?

[8:07] Annaleigh Ashford: Lucy!

[8:08] Jeff Kready: Father! Have you found Mina?

[8:10] Annaleigh Ashford: Dracula came back and told me everything.

[8:12] Annaleigh Ashford: He has her here.

[8:14] Jeff Kready: Lucy, I told you to stay at home.

[8:16] Jeff Kready: I don't want you involved any longer.

[8:18] Annaleigh Ashford: But I am involved.

[8:19] Annaleigh Ashford: I am the best hope we have for saving Mina and vanquishing the Count.

[8:23] Jeff Kready: You defied my wishes.

[8:24] Annaleigh Ashford: Yes, I did.

[8:25] Annaleigh Ashford: I don't understand you.

[8:27] Jeff Kready: You are always running toward danger.

[8:29] Annaleigh Ashford: Can you blame me?

[8:31] Annaleigh Ashford: My father taught me the value of helping people.

[8:36] Annaleigh Ashford: No matter the stakes.

[8:38] Jeff Kready: Father, you need my help.

[8:41] Jeff Kready: You're as stubborn as your mother was.

[8:44] Jeff Kready: And you're right.

[8:46] Jeff Kready: We can't do this without you.

[8:48] Annaleigh Ashford: Oh, Daddy. Thank you.

[8:50] Annaleigh Ashford: Where is Jonathan?

[8:51] Jeff Kready: Searching for Mina.

[8:52] Jeff Kready: By himself?

[8:53] Annaleigh Ashford: Yes.

[8:54] Annaleigh Ashford: You'd have been very proud of him.

[9:00] Jeff Kready: Proud of who?

[9:02] Jeff Kready: Jonathan!

[9:03] Annaleigh Ashford: Where is your shirt?

[9:05] Jeff Kready: I was feeling kind of hot.

[9:08] Annaleigh Ashford: Are those leather pants?

[9:10] Jeff Kready: Yeah, baby. With lace-up crotch.

[9:13] Annaleigh Ashford: Did you find Mina?

[9:14] Jeff Kready: No, I did not.

[9:16] Jeff Kready: Cher found me.

[9:19] Jeff Kready: And bite marks.

[9:20] Jeff Kready: That's right. Mina says hi, by the way.

[9:23] Annaleigh Ashford: Jonathan, did you and Mina...

[9:25] Jeff Kready: Oh, come on, babe.

[9:27] Jeff Kready: It was an innocent bite.

[9:29] Jeff Kready: Followed by an innocent sock.

[9:32] Annaleigh Ashford: I beg your pardon?

[9:33] Jeff Kready: On the neck.

[9:34] Jeff Kready: You should be proud.

[9:35] Annaleigh Ashford: Oh, no. Not him, too.

[9:37] Annaleigh Ashford: Look at those fangs.

[9:39] Jeff Kready: How do we save them, Doctor?

[9:40] Laura Benanti: The only way is to kill the vampire that infected Mina.

[9:44] Jeff Kready: What about Jonathan?

[9:45] Laura Benanti: If we kill Dracula, he'll be free as well.

[9:48] Jeff Kready: Ah, it's like a pyramid scheme.

[9:50] Laura Benanti: Correct.

[9:51] Jeff Kready: Jonathan, have you seen any sign of the Count?

[9:53] Jeff Kready: He must be sleeping somewhere here.

[9:55] Laura Benanti: The sun is up.

[9:56] Laura Benanti: Let's ask Kitty, shall we?

[9:58] Kathy Fitzgerald: Kitty?

[9:59] Kathy Fitzgerald: I love the Couch in London.

[10:02] Jeff Kready: In London?

[10:03] Jeff Kready: What's he doing there?

[10:04] Laura Benanti: Probably seeing a play and buying a trench coat.

[10:06] Laura Benanti: I think he sent Renfield ahead with the coffins and the other things.

[10:10] Jeff Kready: Coffins?

[10:11] Laura Benanti: Dear God, what is he planning?

[10:13] Laura Benanti: The coffins from the shipwreck, of course.

[10:15] Laura Benanti: They belong to the Count.

[10:17] Laura Benanti: They were filled with earth, weren't they?

[10:19] Kathy Fitzgerald: I said too much already.

[10:22] Kathy Fitzgerald: So I might as well tell you the rest.

[10:24] Jeff Kready: Go on.

[10:25] Kathy Fitzgerald: He brought the earth from Transylvania because it's the only way he can hold on to his powers.

[10:30] Kathy Fitzgerald: He's safe sleeping in any of them.

[10:32] Laura Benanti: We must go to London with a wooden stake to drive through his heart.

[10:36] Laura Benanti: Jonathan sold him five properties.

[10:38] Laura Benanti: He must be in one of them.

[10:40] Laura Benanti: We must search all of them until we find him.

[10:43] Annaleigh Ashford: What about Mina?

[10:44] Laura Benanti: If that monster is in London, then she is safer here.

[10:47] Jeff Kready: Very well, then.

[10:48] Jeff Kready: To London!

[10:54] Annaleigh Ashford: I say, this carriage ride is awfully bumpy, isn't it?

[10:58] Jeff Kready: I suppose you're going to tell me to put on my seatbelt.

[11:01] Annaleigh Ashford: Hell no. It's bloody good fun.

[11:03] Jeff Kready: Let's live on the edge.

[11:05] Annaleigh Ashford: Kiss me.

[11:10] Jeff Kready: Jonathan!

[11:12] Jeff Kready: What has gotten into you?

[11:14] Annaleigh Ashford: Vampire blood, I assume?

[11:16] Jeff Kready: You're terrible.

[11:17] Jeff Kready: Let's do it again.

[11:22] Laura Benanti: We want to get him before he rises at dusk.

[11:24] Annaleigh Ashford: We should travel from east to west to beat the sunset.

[11:27] Laura Benanti: We'll start in Greenwich, then on to Westminster and so on.

[11:30] Annaleigh Ashford: Doctor, is there any way we might keep him like this, just a little?

[11:35] Laura Benanti: I'm afraid not, Lucy.

[11:37] Annaleigh Ashford: Then I'd better get my kicks in now. Jonathan, lips.

[11:41] Jeff Kready: Yes, ma'am.

[11:43] James Monroe Iglehart: I really don't want to be watching this.

[11:46] Jeff Kready: Not a problem. I'll just close this divider curtain and give you two some privacy.

[11:52] Laura Benanti: Ah, sort it all. Just sing with me.

[11:55] Annaleigh Ashford: Not a breech is falling from my throne.

[12:05] James Monroe Iglehart: This must be it. The map shows that Cutty's out just across the street.

[12:09] Jeff Kready: That gargoyle wasn't there when I sold it to him.

[12:12] Laura Benanti: The mark of a vampire.

[12:13] Annaleigh Ashford: Look at this sign.

[12:15] Jeff Kready: Cutty's in the rear. Only accepted after sunset.

[12:19] James Monroe Iglehart: Kinky.

[12:20] Annaleigh Ashford: Let me at that miscreant now!

[12:22] Laura Benanti: Quite carefully, Wallace.

[12:27] Jeff Kready: Empty.

[12:28] James Monroe Iglehart: I can smell his cologne. He must be here.

[12:30] Laura Benanti: Search the bedrooms.

[12:32] Jeff Kready: The Count was more interested in the basement.

[12:35] Laura Benanti: Of course, the basement. That's where he must be.

[12:38] Annaleigh Ashford: He must be right this way.

[12:45] Jeff Kready: It's a few flights down.

[12:51] Laura Benanti: Of course, he wants to be as far from this sun's rays as possible.

[12:55] Annaleigh Ashford: Just a few more.

[13:01] Jeff Kready: How many? We must be under the Thames by now.

[13:05] Laura Benanti: Last one.

[13:14] Annaleigh Ashford: Here we are. Pitch black.

[13:17] Jeff Kready: I can't see a thing.

[13:18] Laura Benanti: Does someone have a match?

[13:20] Annaleigh Ashford: I think I feel a candle.

[13:23] Jeff Kready: That's not a candle.

[13:25] Annaleigh Ashford: Jonathan!

[13:26] Jeff Kready: But this is...

[13:29] Laura Benanti: A coffin!

[13:31] Annaleigh Ashford: Jonathan, quickly!

[13:33] Jeff Kready: The stake!

[13:34] Laura Benanti: Ready.

[13:35] Jeff Kready: All right, Wallace. I want you to slowly open the lid.

[13:38] Annaleigh Ashford: Ready.

[13:39] Jeff Kready: On the count of three.

[13:40] Laura Benanti: Heaven help us.

[13:41] Annaleigh Ashford: With this blow, I extinguish the dark flames of evil that have burned for centuries.

[13:47] Jeff Kready: One...

[13:49] Annaleigh Ashford: Two...

[13:51] Jeff Kready: Two and a half...

[13:53] Annaleigh Ashford: Three!

[13:54] Jeff Kready: Die, you bloodsucking scourge of the planets!

[13:57] Annaleigh Ashford: Die! Die! Die!

[14:01] Jeff Kready: He's not in there.

[14:02] Laura Benanti: He must be at one of the other properties.

[14:04] Annaleigh Ashford: To Westminster!

[14:05] James Monroe Iglehart: Montage!

[14:08] Jeff Kready: He said he wanted a view of Big Ben.

[14:10] Laura Benanti: Can't get much closer than this.

[14:12] Annaleigh Ashford: Now where would the coffin be?

[14:13] Jeff Kready: It's the darkest location in the apartment.

[14:15] Laura Benanti: The pantry!

[14:16] Annaleigh Ashford: You know the drill.

[14:18] Jeff Kready: One...

[14:19] Annaleigh Ashford: Two...

[14:20] Jeff Kready: Two and a half...

[14:22] Annaleigh Ashford: Three!

[14:24] Jeff Kready: Empty again!

[14:25] Laura Benanti: To Piccadilly Circus!

[14:28] Annaleigh Ashford: The flat is just above the old Shaftesbury Theatre.

[14:30] Jeff Kready: Who's playing?

[14:31] Annaleigh Ashford: Mamma mia.

[14:32] Jeff Kready: Here we go again.

[14:33] Annaleigh Ashford: One...

[14:34] Jeff Kready: Two...

[14:35] Annaleigh Ashford: Two and a half...

[14:37] Jeff Kready: Three!

[14:39] Annaleigh Ashford: Nothing!

[14:40] Jeff Kready: To Knightsbridge!

[14:42] Annaleigh Ashford: He wasn't there.

[14:43] Jeff Kready: But we did buy some beautiful clothing and headdress.

[14:45] Laura Benanti: We've been through all the properties.

[14:47] Annaleigh Ashford: Only one remains.

[14:49] Jeff Kready: To Abbey Road!

[14:51] Annaleigh Ashford: Abbey Road!

[14:52] Jeff Kready: It certainly is long and winding.

[14:54] Annaleigh Ashford: With a spiffy view of the octopus's garden in the shade.

[14:57] Jeff Kready: Let it be. Forget it.

[14:58] Laura Benanti: The Beatles.

[14:59] Annaleigh Ashford: Did someone say Beatles?

[15:01] Alex Brightman: Renfield!

[15:02] Annaleigh Ashford: Stay away from Lucy. I command you.

[15:04] Alex Brightman: I'm sorry. I'm at the mercy of the Count.

[15:07] Annaleigh Ashford: He has cursed me.

[15:08] Alex Brightman: It's awful.

[15:09] Annaleigh Ashford: Like an unpaid internship.

[15:11] Jeff Kready: I'll tie him up.

[15:12] Annaleigh Ashford: Nice work, Jonathan.

[15:14] Jeff Kready: We should try that later.

[15:15] Annaleigh Ashford: Not listening.

[15:17] Laura Benanti: Look. The fifth coffin.

[15:19] Annaleigh Ashford: This is the moment we've waited for.

[15:22] Jeff Kready: One...

[15:23] Annaleigh Ashford: Two...

[15:24] Jeff Kready: Two and a half...

[15:26] Annaleigh Ashford: Three!

[15:29] Jeff Kready: Bollocks!

[15:30] Annaleigh Ashford: Nothing.

[15:31] Jeff Kready: Again.

[15:32] Annaleigh Ashford: Where can he be?

[15:33] Jeff Kready: I sold him five properties in London and we've seen them all.

[15:36] Laura Benanti: All the properties?

[15:38] Jeff Kready: Perhaps, but not all the coffins.

[15:40] Annaleigh Ashford: Is that what you mean?

[15:42] Jeff Kready: The ship's manifest listed six coffins.

[15:44] Annaleigh Ashford: Six?

[15:45] Jeff Kready: But that means the last coffin...

[15:47] Annaleigh Ashford: Is back at Carfax.

[15:49] Jeff Kready: He must have been sleeping there all along.

[15:51] Laura Benanti: I don't understand.

[15:52] Annaleigh Ashford: Kitty said...

[15:53] Jeff Kready: Kitty is a compulsive liar.

[15:54] Annaleigh Ashford: I thought she was a kleptomaniac.

[15:56] Jeff Kready: Mental health is an inexact science.

[15:58] Laura Benanti: We've got to get there before sunset.

[16:00] Annaleigh Ashford: To Carfax!

[16:02] Jeff Kready: We made excellent time.

[16:04] Laura Benanti: This way, toward the crypt.

[16:06] Annaleigh Ashford: The sun is almost down.

[16:08] Jeff Kready: Careful on these stairs.

[16:10] Laura Benanti: They are old and unstable.

[16:12] Annaleigh Ashford: In real estate, we call that authentic charm.

[16:19] Jeff Kready: This is it.

[16:20] Laura Benanti: Without question, the absolute and empirical final, final coffin.

[16:25] Annaleigh Ashford: One...

[16:26] Jeff Kready: Two...

[16:27] Annaleigh Ashford: Two and a half...

[16:31] Laura Benanti: Count Dracula!

[16:32] Annaleigh Ashford: Prepare to meet your doom!

[16:34] Laura Benanti: You have brought nothing but misery to this family.

[16:36] Annaleigh Ashford: What about the babka?

[16:38] Laura Benanti: That was good.

[16:40] Annaleigh Ashford: What have you done with Mina?

[16:41] Laura Benanti: She's died up.

[16:42] Annaleigh Ashford: Well, you'll never find her.

[16:44] Laura Benanti: Her transition is almost complete.

[16:46] Annaleigh Ashford: Help!

[16:48] Laura Benanti: Lucy!

[16:49] Annaleigh Ashford: Father?

[16:50] Laura Benanti: Is that you?

[16:52] Annaleigh Ashford: We're going to save you, Mina!

[16:54] Laura Benanti: Remain calm!

[16:55] Annaleigh Ashford: Good idea!

[16:57] Laura Benanti: It's not working!

[16:59] Annaleigh Ashford: Hurry!

[17:00] Laura Benanti: You wretched creature!

[17:02] Annaleigh Ashford: I won't let you kill my sister!

[17:04] Laura Benanti: Or my fiancé!

[17:05] Annaleigh Ashford: Or my patient Renfield!

[17:07] Laura Benanti: Or my doctor!

[17:08] Annaleigh Ashford: Or Gene Van Helsing!

[17:09] Laura Benanti: Or Renfield!

[17:10] Annaleigh Ashford: We've covered him already.

[17:12] Laura Benanti: Right.

[17:13] Annaleigh Ashford: Or Kitty!

[17:14] Laura Benanti: So swing of you to think of me.

[17:16] Annaleigh Ashford: I'm just a peripheral character.

[17:18] Laura Benanti: Enough!

[17:20] Annaleigh Ashford: Lucy!

[17:22] Laura Benanti: Remember our agreement.

[17:24] Annaleigh Ashford: In your heart, you know I am the one you want to be with.

[17:28] Laura Benanti: Why would I want to be with you for eternity?

[17:31] Annaleigh Ashford: Free healthcare?

[17:34] Laura Benanti: I'm English.

[17:35] Annaleigh Ashford: It's already free.

[17:36] Laura Benanti: But we have something real.

[17:38] Annaleigh Ashford: And I want the world to know I love you.

[17:41] Laura Benanti: That's right.

[17:42] Annaleigh Ashford: I love Lucy!

[17:44] Laura Benanti: Why, you son of a-

[17:46] Annaleigh Ashford: Count, you do not love me!

[17:48] Laura Benanti: Love is selfless.

[17:50] Annaleigh Ashford: Have you managed even one selfless act in your entire life?

[17:54] Laura Benanti: Have you ever had the courage to do that?

[17:56] Annaleigh Ashford: To risk change?

[17:58] Laura Benanti: That's the difference between you and Jonathan.

[18:00] Annaleigh Ashford: That's the difference?

[18:02] Laura Benanti: It wasn't easy for him, but yes.

[18:04] Annaleigh Ashford: He worked past his fears.

[18:06] Laura Benanti: And he did it for me.

[18:08] Annaleigh Ashford: Only because he has my blood in him.

[18:11] Laura Benanti: And if I die, all that dies too.

[18:13] Annaleigh Ashford: Even if it does, I will still have the memory.

[18:17] Laura Benanti: So if you have to hurt me,

[18:19] Annaleigh Ashford: hurt me.

[18:21] Laura Benanti: Just please, if you feel anything for me at all,

[18:25] Annaleigh Ashford: leave my family alone.

[18:28] Laura Benanti: How kind.

[18:30] Annaleigh Ashford: Maybe you're right.

[18:32] Laura Benanti: Maybe I've just been in it for myself all along.

[18:35] Annaleigh Ashford: I never thought of myself as a narcissist.

[18:38] Laura Benanti: I mean, a narcissist couldn't be this handsome.

[18:42] Annaleigh Ashford: But now, I see they can.

[18:45] Laura Benanti: I mean, look at me.

[18:47] Annaleigh Ashford: No, seriously, everyone, look at me.

[18:50] Laura Benanti: It's time I did something for someone else.

[18:53] Annaleigh Ashford: Jonathan, you said you wanted to become a hero.

[18:57] Jeff Kready: Now's your chance.

[19:00] Annaleigh Ashford: You know what to do.

[19:06] Jeff Kready: I can't go through with it.

[19:08] Annaleigh Ashford: I'm not like you.

[19:10] Jeff Kready: Nothing could make me go so far as to take another life.

[19:13] Annaleigh Ashford: I see.

[19:15] Jeff Kready: Imagine I kissed your girlfriend.

[19:17] Annaleigh Ashford: Die, you handsome son of a...

[19:28] Jeff Kready: It is done.

[19:31] Annaleigh Ashford: And so am I.

[19:46] Laura Benanti: 7th July, 1898.

[19:49] Annaleigh Ashford: Almost nine months have passed,

[19:51] Laura Benanti: and things have finally returned to normal at the Westveld home.

[19:55] Annaleigh Ashford: Mina has made a complete recovery,

[19:57] Laura Benanti: with the fringe benefit of some highly compelling dinner party conversation.

[20:02] Annaleigh Ashford: Dr. Westveld has given up his practice

[20:04] Laura Benanti: to join me in the pursuit of the supernatural

[20:07] Annaleigh Ashford: and a cozy domestic partnership.

[20:10] Laura Benanti: Kitty never quite conquered her kleptomania

[20:13] Annaleigh Ashford: with her pathological lying,

[20:15] Laura Benanti: but she now has a successful career in politics.

[20:19] Annaleigh Ashford: As for Lucy and Jonathan,

[20:21] Laura Benanti: their bumpy carriage ride yielded an unexpected bump of its own,

[20:25] Annaleigh Ashford: which Lucy showed with pride on her wedding day.

[20:29] Laura Benanti: Watch it, darling.

[20:31] Annaleigh Ashford: Don't want to step on your train.

[20:33] Laura Benanti: Jonathan, I'm fine.

[20:34] Annaleigh Ashford: But the floor is slick.

[20:36] Laura Benanti: You know, although there is no one

[20:38] Annaleigh Ashford: I would rather spend the next 50 years with,

[20:41] Laura Benanti: I must confess I sometimes miss the old you.

[20:45] Annaleigh Ashford: The new old you.

[20:47] Laura Benanti: The you before you went back to being...

[20:49] Annaleigh Ashford: I thought you might say that.

[20:52] Laura Benanti: Which is why I brought a cape for later.

[20:55] Annaleigh Ashford: Oh, Jonathan.

[20:58] Laura Benanti: It's funny.

[21:00] Annaleigh Ashford: It seems that in order to truly learn how to live,

[21:04] Laura Benanti: we had to almost die.

[21:06] Annaleigh Ashford: Lucy Westveld,

[21:07] Laura Benanti: I'd rather share one lifetime with you

[21:09] Annaleigh Ashford: than eternity with everyone else.

[21:11] Laura Benanti: Darling, the baby, the baby!

[21:13] Annaleigh Ashford: What is it?

[21:14] Laura Benanti: I just felt a kick.

[21:16] Annaleigh Ashford: How wonderful!

[21:17] Laura Benanti: Or was it...

[21:18] Annaleigh Ashford: a bite?

[21:29] Alan Tudyk: Thus concludes the heartwarming tale of Geppetto,

[21:32] Alan Tudyk: a man and his wood...

[21:34] Alan Tudyk: What? What's...

[21:35] Alan Tudyk: Shit.

[21:36] Alan Tudyk: Dracula, a comedy of terrors,

[21:38] Alan Tudyk: was written by Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen,

[21:41] Alan Tudyk: directed by Gordon Greenberg,

[21:42] Alan Tudyk: associate directed by Marty McGuire,

[21:44] Alan Tudyk: edited and mixed by Bart Fassbender

[21:46] Alan Tudyk: with original music and sound design by Victoria DiOrio,

[21:50] Alan Tudyk: produced by Dory Berenstain

[21:52] Alan Tudyk: and Alan Seales for the Broadway Podcast Network.

[21:55] Alan Tudyk: This week's episode featured Christopher Sieber as Dracula,

[21:59] Alan Tudyk: Laura Benanti as Dr. Jean Van Helsing,

[22:02] Alan Tudyk: Annaleigh Ashford as Mina Westveld,

[22:04] Alan Tudyk: Ashley Park as Lucy Westveld,

[22:06] Alan Tudyk: Jeff Kready as Jonathan Harker,

[22:08] Alan Tudyk: James Monroe Iglehart as Dr. Wallace Westveld,

[22:11] Alan Tudyk: Kathy Fitzgerald as Kitty,

[22:13] Alan Tudyk: Alex Brightman as Renfield,

[22:15] Alan Tudyk: and I am your narrator, Alan Tudyk.

[22:18] Alan Tudyk: This has been a social isolation podcast

[22:21] Alan Tudyk: to benefit the Actors Fund and Broadway Cares.

[22:23] Alan Tudyk: To donate, please visit the COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund

[22:27] Alan Tudyk: at www.broadwaycares.org

[22:30] Alan Tudyk: forward slash help 2020.

[22:33] Alan Tudyk: Dracula, a comedy of terrorists,

[22:35] Alan Tudyk: was commissioned and originally produced

[22:37] Alan Tudyk: by the Maltz Jupiter Theater,

[22:38] Alan Tudyk: Andrew Cato, Producing Artistic Director, Chief Executive.