Characters
(Note: Many changes in characterization were made for the Broadway version. This refers to the original European version.)
- Graf von Krolock, the powerful and seductive vampire lord.
- Professor Abronsius, an absent-minded vampire hunter.
- Alfred, Abronsius' young well-meaning assistant.
- Sarah, the innkeeper's beautiful young daughter.
- Chagal, a Jewish innkeeper and Sarah's over-protective father.
- Rebecca, Chagal's long-suffering wife.
- Magda, the pretty maid-of-all trades at Chagal's inn.
- Herbert von Krolock, the Count's homosexual son.
- Koukol, the Count's hunchbacked servant.
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