The Hartland Players’ Encore Youth Theater will host open auditions for Drac’s Back for youth aged 7-18. Mistaken identities, slapstick humor, bloody good puns, and more crazy characters than a Looney Tune cartoon all come together to create this hilarious new vampire play. The return trip from the Regional Science Fair doesn’t go exactly as planned for Mary Cole and her students. When the school van runs out of gas in the middle of a rainstorm, the young scientists are forced to take refuge in a spooky old house. Greeted by the very pale but suave Dexter Drackman, Buffy, a student who’s also a descendant of the great vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing, senses trouble. Her instincts are dead on — the castle is now owned by Dracula’s sisters, Bella and Della, but their infamous brother wants the house to call his own. Dracula plots with his seventh wife, Trixie, to snatch the house right out from under his sisters. How? By having a doctor from a rest sanitarium come to the castle in disguise, observe the sisters, declare them incompetent (because they believe in vampires!) and haul them off to Happy Acres. Unfortunately for Dracula, a pair of policewomen stops by to check on a complaint, and he mistakes them for the doctor and her assistant. Meanwhile, the students, aren’t exactly interested in becoming vampires or zombies, so Buffy leads them in their escape attempt. Great for Halloween or any time of year, audiences of all ages will love the silly antics in Drac’s Back!
Auditions will be held Saturday, September 8 at 9:30 a.m. at the Hartland Music Hall, 3619 Avon Street, Hartland
Note: It is mandatory that a parent/guardian accompanies his/her child throughout the entire audition process.