LOVE AT FIRST BITE FOR CHRIS AND MICK
A COUPLE are celebrating their 130th visit to Dracula’s Cabaret – and they say it was love at first bite.
Ballarat couple Chris Storer, 65 and her husband Mick, 68, were enticed by Dracula’s for the first time in 1999 when they were visiting Melbourne.
The Victorian capital city’s Dracula’s closed in late 2017 after 37 years in operation, while the Gold Coast’s venue lives on today.
“We were going on holiday and someone suggested we go to Dracula’s,” Mrs Storer said.
“We had never heard of it. “We went and loved it so much that we went three weeks in a row.”
Mrs Storer said the actors, stage format and lighting at their first show, Seven Deadly Sins, made it the most fang-tastic performance they had been to.
“We had never seen anything like it,” she said.
The couple travelled to Dracula’s at least once a month until the pandemic hit.
“We bought these tickets during the pandemic because Dracula’s sent out an email saying ‘would you like to buy tickets to help us through the pandemic?’ and they were valid for three years,” Mrs Storer said.
Mr and Mrs Storer have bought tickets to the Sanctuary show on Saturday night and said it would be their first Dracula’s show in four years.
Comedy, musical acts and aerial acrobatics will be performed across five stages.
Cabaret tickets to the Sanctuary are priced at $114.
“(It has been) shocking without it,” Mrs Storer said.
“It’s so exciting to come here again.”
Mrs Storer said the “vibrant, colourful, talented” shows at Dracula’s “take you out of your mundane world”.
“The magic, sketches, singing and the comedy make you feel alive,” she said.