Dracula on Broadway
CAN IT BE THAT EASY
DRACULA (circling Mina)
You must choose your path. You have already been bitten twice - but it is not too late to return to your other life. Thrice bitten, you will die. But if we share blood, we will be one. We will live forever.
Addressing the picture of Helene.
Do my eyes deceive me? Can it be that easy?
Is my torment soon to be rewarded with your love?
Like a glowing ember, I can still remember
how our passion burned so strong yet lived so short a time.
Have you returned to haunt me,
to simply tease and taunt me?
If so my heart is yours to feed your lust for blood.
You once left me broken, vows of vengeance spoken.
So I chose my fate and yet through all I can't escape that I have
never stopped loving you.
Again circling Mina.
As the wheel keeps turning, so my soul keeps burning
Let this latest twist of fate be one more cruel jest.
If we be together, let it be forever.
We shall go as one to face our greatest final test.
I would have died to save her, torn out my eyes to raise her.
Yet my reward was only loneliness and pain.
Do I not deserve you? Heaven won't preserve you.
Now your fate is mine you will, like me, be damned in time
and we will live once again as one.
Sensuously touching frozen Mina's hair, face, neck.
I will possess you. Hold, and caress you
for I have been patient too long.
I can but charm you, slowly disarm you.
Soon all your fears will be gone.
And so together we will be, if need through all eternity.
We both shall share the living hell which has been mine.
A wave of his hand revives her.
But when I take you. I will slowly take you.
All of my pain you can end.
And I will not be cheated again.
No!, my heart won't be broken again.
She closes her eyes, exposes her neck. He kisses her, then works his way down
to her neck and then pulls away, he has heard a noise.
POISON
VOICES
Afurisire
DRACULA
Damnation.
VOICES
Durere
DRACULA
Grief
Sangerand eternitate, a blood-stained eternity...
[spoken becoming angry]
It is what we all deserve, is it not?
What reason have I to spare her?
When she flew from me all those years ago?
[Sung:]
Conscience is not my weakness
Fate dictated what I do
My path winds through infernal destiny
I will not alter it to spare you
VOICES
Endless condemnation
She dies without salvation
DRACULA
I am not the devil! I am the victim! And I will have her!!!
VOICES
Endless condemnation
No hope of salvation
DRACULA
Angel whose wings fly closer
To impure ecstasy
Drunk now with bitter sweetness
Her lips will cling to me
Blood lust will send us soaring
Into infinity
With cruel hearts adoring
This spell will set us free.
VOICES
Your path will bring her sorrow
DRACULA (spoken)
I will not have my one measure of happiness taken from me !
I regret nothing' I shall have her with me!
[Suddenly the painting seems to come to life, Helene]
HELENE'S VOICE
Dear love now hear my voice...
DRACULA (spoken)
Helene!
HELENE
You must forgive the past
You must free your love
Of or this black hell will last.
DRACULA (conflicted, tortured)
Helene what is the answer?
I can't live without her but my love destroys her!
Craving the ruby flower
Unceasing urge to feed
I have but one more hour
Before her blood I'll need.
Lost now, falling faster
Into infernal night
Poison sleep awaits her
With that one final bite.
[Spoken]
How can I condemn my love to the fire of rage and blood?
No Mina! I cannot !
[Fast section]
I cannot take her
She did not bring her soul to sell
And if I die now
This living hell would die as well
A grim and deadly bridegroom who
Can only ask his love
Share my bed of coldest earth
Our love is sterile at its birth.
I wait for daylight
It is with broken heart I serve,
The beast shall die here
And I shall seek what I deserve
To slay this brutal power
End my life within this hour
I will beg her now to kill
Destroy her love against her will
VOICES
Dracul de sangerand
DRACULA
And so it is I save the one I love.
PRECIOUS LIFE
JONATHAN
This precious life has been ripped from me
I saw it all too late
A cruel demon steals you from me
And deals a hollow fate
If I could die within your arms
Death would be welcome now
Please take me with you where you go
If you would be with me
There is no answer I need know.
MINA
Don't you see, don't you know that all is done
I am free, for the poison has begun to grow
A stunning transformation is mine
Shining and whole
The depths of my soul
Have awakened at his touch
Can you imagine such a splendid blaze?
Brilliant visions of my life
Unending passion all my days.
ETERNITY DUET
MINA
I could never end what has not yet begun
The dance but a step
The song yet unsung
Speak of peace, there is no peace if you would fly from me
I must deny this. I have no strength! Here on the
threshold of all I desire, how can it end?
DRACULA
I have loved you long
Centuries of cursed prayers unanswered
Radiant as stars
of heaven, you have given me
A benediction
[Dracula removes his cape from Mina and puts it on.]
Cruel God or kind,
the light of your existence shows me truth
Our love would wither in the dark,
So send me from you now, and I will find you
BOTH
I will not forsake a passion transcending time
What lies beyond, is clouded from view
Will we meet or will we melt into a blend of souls?
Ever at peace, always at rest, ever as one,
always as one, Eternity, Eternity, Eternity.
LIGHT UPON MY FACE
MINA
Sleep alone, remember me as darkness falls
Now I see the light, it burns my eyes
My dear, the path I've chosen leaves me cold and still
I know there is a sky above
You've saved my life with love
I am a soul with light upon my face
On the wings of blessed winds I send you home
And I am Center with little more to do
Than count each hour until I meet you once again
Please tell me, what am I to do
Free, and without you,
Tears reflect the light upon my face
I bathe your weary soul in endless pools of tears
Strange that in your rest
The only love I knew has died, so near to being mine
The circle is complete,
Like silver doves, this blade has brought you peace
[Slowly Lucy and Jonathan come back on stage followed by the rest
of the cast creating a background harmony for the final verse.]
COMPANY
Sleep alone, remember me as darkness fall
Now I see the light it burns my eyes,
Leaves me blinded, stranded, empty at the core
Please tell me, what am I to do
Free and without you,
Tears reflect the light upon my face
I bathe your weary soul in endless pools of tears
Strange that in your rest
My life, my heart, my soul and every memory flies to God
Eternity erased
I am a soul with light upon my face
Eternity erased
I am a soul with light upon my face.