I've been to a hell of a lot of theatre shows in my time and honestly the Draculas Resurrection Tour would have to be one of the best I've seen - here's why.

I was enjoying the show so much in the first act I was wondering if the cocktail I'd consumed had altered my reality (patrons could purchase giant disco flashing cocktails in take-home glasses emblazoned with Draculas), but then I looked around and it seemed I wasn't alone in my delight.

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Perhaps it was the surprise of how almost seamless each segment of the cabaret show was executed or the fact my face literally hurt from laughing so hard, I'm not entirely sure.

WHAT IS DRACULAS

The Newman family are stalwarts of the theatre-restaurant game, with the first Draculas restaurant established in a dingy Melbourne laneway in 1980 - their Gold Coast venue now remaining as their flagship cabaret club.

Organisers boasted the Resurrection Tour would smash years of Dracula's punchy variety into one blood-buster show with the most requested acts, live rock music, sultry burlesque, jaw to the floor costumes and razor edge comedy.

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WHAT IS THE SHOW

I did wonder how the essence of a restaurant that is entered via a haunted-house ghost train could transfer to the IMB Theatre inside the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre.

What transcribed were epic rock anthems performed by Rocky Horror-style characters, masters of acrobatics dancing their way across the stage and in the air, puppetry to match Avenue Q (or Little Shop of Horrors), stand-up comedy to have you in stitches (even the dad-jokes slipped in), guitar solos to rival Slash of Guns'n'Roses by a gorgeous gender-bending creature, and the most hilarious miming skit with a vaccuum cleaner I've ever seen.

One of my favourite segments was the two "Vladimir" vampire characters engaging in a choreographed towel swap - something I had seen serious burlesque dancers do once - but this was in jest and their facial expressions brought the house down with laughs.

WHAT I THOUGHT

Draculas won't be suited to everyone. I wouldn't take the kids, and possibly wouldn't take my strict Catholic grandma, nor anyone who is easily offended. (It has adult themes, partial nudity and coarse language).

For Wollongong's opening night the crowd was predominantly women but I don't see why men wouldn't enjoy the show just as much.

Sadly, Friday and Saturday night's shows are now sold out. So if you want to catch the show on this tour you'll need to do so in June at The Palms in Melbourne or Wrest Point in Hobart.

I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

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