Comedian Nick Mohammed’s character Mr Swallow is a man who always wants to be in the limelight. Both childish and child-like, this moon-faced, short, egotistical chatterbox makes for an unusual Count Dracula.
But then, Mohammed had us on side just with the concept for this spoof. Dracula… as a musical – it’s already funny. Throw in the supporting cast of David Elms as the musical’s increasingly exasperated director, Kieran Hodgson as a sidelined Jonathan Harker and Johanna Grace as Mina, whose operatic vocals hint at the outstanding spectacle Mr Swallow is sabotaging, and you’ve got all the ingredients of a winning production in front of us.
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