On July 11, 1938 CBS Radio presents Dracula by Bram Stoker. Written and directed by Orson Welles. Cast: Orson Welles
(Dr. Arthur Seward, Count Dracula), Elizabeth Fuller (Lucy Westenra), George Coulouris (Jonathan Harker), Agnes
Moorehead (Mina Harker), Martin Gabel (Dr. Van Helsing), Ray Collins (Russian Captain) and Karl Swenson (Mate).
Announcer: Dan Seymour. Music by Bernard Herrmann. Opening theme music: Piano Concerto No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Dracula was the first episode of the CBS Radio series "First Person Singular", which ran from July – September 1938.
Welles was already a radio star - he began acting on radio in 1934 - sometimes receiving a salary of $2000 per week.
His reputation grew with his performance and direction of the 7-part radio series Les Misérables (July - September,
1937) and Twelfth Night (August 1937) and as the narrator of The March of Time and actor/narrator on The Shadow. He
put his radio earnings into the Mercury Theatre company he founded with John Houseman in 1937.

The Welles-Houseman Mercury stage productions were an instant success on Broadway and Time magazine featured Welles
on its cover on May 9, 1938. CBS decided to take a chance on Welles' growing notoriety and gave him full creative
control of the First Person Singular series, which was later re-titled The Mercury Theatre on the Air.

Welles produced eight more episodes of First Person Singular for CBS after Dracula and you will find other surviving
episodes here on wWw.OrsOnRaDio.cOm

A transcription of the Welles' Dracula script can be found here: http://www.genericradio.com/show/0cd6ca7e1d5e4e1c