Vampires Over Broadway
(or Fresh Blood)
By Rosary Hartel O'NeillSynopsis
COMEDY. This farce is a showdown between a declining starlet and a Broadway director/vampire.
Diamond, a 40-something actress, gets a one-shot chance for a Broadway lead. She and her husband agree to expose their innermost neuroses or emotional handicaps to get cast.
Their marriage starts falling apart. Uncastables scream for her to drop out. Will Diamond win the audition or will the Vampire kill her?
CAST OF CHARACTERS:
- LANA DIAMOND — Gorgeous 42, cancer survivor
- JOHNNY BLUE — Dashing, 46. Her husband, a recovering alcoholic
- VLADMIR — 58. A fierce Broadway director, King of the Vampires
- HEADLESS WOMAN AND GREEN WRAITH — His assistant and vampire wife
- MARILYN'S GHOST — 36. The spirit of Marilyn Monroe
- WITCHES — Invisible good and bad ghosts and vampires
SETTING: Cavernous small theatre, Greenwich Village, New York, dusk.
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