McKeesport Little Theater: ‘Dracula, A Musical’ back on stage after decades away

By JEFF STITT

jstitt@yourmvi.com

A show by a greater Pittsburgh writer/musician duo that made its debut at McKeesport Little Theater in the 1990s is back on stage.

Paul Michael Brown’s “Dracula, A Musical” opened at MLT last week and will finish its third run at the theater this weekend. 

With music by Al Snyder and executive produced by Rita Brown, Paul’s mother, “Dracula, a Musical” is not your typical “stake in the heart” vampire tale, but rather a hauntingly beautiful love story, according to a description of the show from MLT.

Paul and Al, both keyboard players, are from the same neighborhood in Carnegie.

“We grew up in the same neighborhood and our folks knew each other. I was a little bit older and he was my paper boy,” Al said. 

Paul passed away at age 50 in 2008 at his Carnegie home. But long before that, the duo made creative and original music together after Paul walked into Al’s studio one day and said, “I want to record a couple songs for a play I’m thinking about doing.”

“That’s how it started,” Al said, adding that the songs were made into an album and were recorded “completely out of order” before being turned into a musical that has run two other times at MLT.

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