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DRACULA ('28 stage) DRACULA ('28 stage) program book, souvenir OR search current auctions Auction History Result 7d862 DRACULA stage play souvenir program book 1928 creepy vampire head art, Raymond Huntley, rare! Date Sold 6/4/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Stage Play Souvenir Program Book (measures 3 1/2" x 5 1/4" [9 x 13 cm]; 16 pages) (Learn More) Dracula, the 1928 Ira Hards Broadway stage play production ("The World Famous Vampire Thriller"; of the classic Bram Stoker novel) starring Edmund Blake, and later Raymond Huntley and Bela Lugosi (in the title role as Count Dracula), Edward Van Sloan (as Abraham Van Helsing), Bernard Jukes (as Renfield), Terence Neill (as Jonathan Harker), and Dorothy Peterson (as Lucy Seward). Note that this play opened in London in 1923 with Edmund Blake in the lead role. When Blake left, Raymond Huntley took over the part of Dracula. Huntley played the role on Broadway in 1927, and then was offered to continue in the role in 1928 when the play moved to Boston, but he turned it down (likely because he did not want to live in Boston, and because he was unhappy with the $150 a week salary), and Bela Lugosi got the part instead! Later in 1928, a traveling production of the show toured the U.S. with Huntley reprising his role, and it played for two years throughout the U.S., until 1930. Of course, the classic Universal movie, with Bela Lugosi as Dracula, was made in 1931! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this program is undated, but based on the information given on the inside front cover, it can be clearly dated to either 1928 or 1929, and it is from the traveling production of the show, which ran from 1928 to 1930, after the show closed on Broadway in 1927, and which starred Raymond Huntley as Dracula (and the program has many great images of him in the lead role). Also note that we have previously auctioned a window card from this stage production (which had the same image that is on the cover of this program book), but this is the first time we have auctioned this program book! Also note that we have pictured the front cover and an interior 2-page spread from this program. You can use these images to determine the exact condition of it from our super-sized image, but realize that there are some other pages you are not seeing. Condition: good to very good. The covers had separated from the rest of the program, and someone put clear tape on the spine and on the inside first and last page at the spine to keep the page together (see our images). Learn More about condition grades 
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