Bergen County Players Present "Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors"

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Director Ray Yucis stages the Off-Broadway hit with echoes of Mel Brooks, Monty Python, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

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Bergen County Players will open its Halloween season with Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, a fast-paced comic retelling of Bram Stoker 's classic by Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen . Directed by Perry Award-winner Ray Yucis, the show runs at the Little Firehouse Theatre in Oradell from October 24 through November 14, 2026.

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This 90-minute Off-Broadway hit features five actors tackling over a dozen roles with quick changes, physical slapstick, witty wordplay, and inventive stagecraft. When Mina Harker falls ill with a mysterious blood disease, her sister Lucy and fiancé Jonathan enlist the famed vampire hunter Dr. Jean Van Helsing. The chase races from the English countryside to Transylvania without an intermission.

'It's a wildly comic retelling-much more Mel Brooks than Bram Stoker ,' said director Ray Yucis. 'While set in the Victorian era, it has a fast, contemporary vibe with echoes of Burlesque, Monty Python, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Hopefully, our audiences can put down their phones, forget doomscrolling for a while, and just laugh.'

Yucis, a BCP Life Member, won a Perry Award for Best Direction of a Play for Time Stands Still and was nominated for Comic Potential. His extensive BCP directing credits include A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum, The Fantasticks, Brooklyn Boy , The Women, and Company, among others. As an actor, his credits include Pack of Lies, The Actor's Nightmare, Tartuffe, and Take Me Out.

In conjunction with the show, BCP is partnering with Vitalant-one of the nation's largest non-profit blood and biotherapies healthcare organizations-for a community blood drive on Saturday, October 17, from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM at the theater (298 Kinderkamack Road, Oradell).

'As a volunteer-run organization that has called Bergen County home since 1932, supporting our neighbors goes far beyond the stage,' said BCP President Margie Druss Fodor. 'Count Dracula might want blood for mischievous ends, but our donors will help save real lives in local hospitals.'

Cast: James Perlas (Dracula) of Cresskill, Zachary Conner (Jonathan Harker/Cavendish) of Bloomfield, Chris Caira (Dr. Westfeldt/Renfield) of Closter, Jillian Flynn (Lucy/Kitty) of Weehawken, and Lori Feiler-Fluger (Mina/Van Helsing) of River Edge.

Creative Team: Sharla Herbert (Producer); Geri Berhain (Assistant Direction & Stage Management); Jody Laufer (Set Design and Construction); Allan Seward (Lighting Design); Victoria Deiorio (Sound Design) recreated by Rob DeScherer; Olga Garey (Costumes); Katie Lupfer (Hair & Wigs); Jennifer Bancks (Properties); Lynne Lupfer (Set Décor); Lisa Dahlborg (Sound Board Operation); Sandra Conklin and Randi Kestin (Lighting Board Operation); Karen Maikisch-Markle (Hair and Wig Assistance); Maryana Ivlev(Make-up Design); Erin Sabat (Intimacy Coaching; Adam Mahonchak, Larry Braverman, and Larry Greenwald (Backstage Crew); Richard Frant (Photographer); Kay Koch (Social Media), Marci K. Weinstein (Program Notes and Program Co-Editor); Chris Nelson (Program Co-Editor); and James Lugo (Member-at-Large).

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