Will Oscar Winner Javier Bardem Play Dracula on the New York Stage?

Is the New York stage ready for another vampire show? What if it starred brawny Oscar winner Javier Bardem as Dracula? It looks like that may happen, according to The New York Post.

The first Spanish actor to win an Oscar, Bardem won a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his role in the 2007 drama No Country For Old Men. He also garnered an Oscar nomination for his performance Before Night Falls. His other film credits include Jamón, jamón, Boca a boca, Carne trémula, Segunde piel, Goya’s Ghosts, Love in the Time of Cholera and Vicky Cristina Barcelona as well as the upcoming Eat, Pray, Love and Biutiful.

Based on Bram Stoker’s well-known novel, Dracula (adapted by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston) first played Broadway in 1927, starring Bela Lugosi, who famously went on to play the role on the silver screen. The play was revived twice on the Great White Way, with its last production, starring Frank Langella, running for 925 performances from 1977 to 1980. The Post says the upcoming production would utilize designs by Edward Gorey that were used in the 1977 version of the show.

No word yet on a venue, dates or casting for the proposed production.