For starters, there are the opening chapters, where the young English real estate agent Jonathan Harker makes his way slowly but surely into the Carpathians seeking Castle Dracula in the most isolated region of Eastern Europe.

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The 24 performances booked for Denver, where the tour is opening, sold out in five hours, according to a ticketing agent at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

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So when an agent asked to turn a play Levine had written into a screenplay, he had his opening into the movie industry.

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Miss Adams's agent, Debbie Catchpole, said the 23 year-old was delighted to perform the official opening of the harbour.

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