VAMPIRE CHRONICLE.(Melissa Errico) From: WWD | Date: August 9, 2004| Author: Heyman, Marshall | COPYRIGHT 2004 Fairchild Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Marshall Heyman

NEW YORK -- There may be no better place to perform a new musical based on Bram Stoker's "Dracula" than at the Belasco Theatre. According to Broadway lore, the ghosts of theater impresario David Belasco and his mistress, who is often referred to as "the lady in the blue dress," haunt the theater.

"Apparently I resemble her," says Melissa Errico, who's headlining the show, which opens Aug. 19, as Mina (the fiancee of the young lawyer ...