'Lestat', the musical, premieres on Broadway...

[Vega Van-Derveld]

... to some less than glowing reviews! Apparently, it sucks

Taken from: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...042502251.html

"Lestat," which opened last night at the Palace Theatre, is based on part of Anne Rice's "Vampire Chronicles." Rice's work was also the subject of the slinky movie "Interview With the Vampire," which cast Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt as androgynous magazine-cover ghouls. "Lestat" features less glamorous actors singing hymns to their inner undeadness and engaging in ungodly amounts of neck-biting -- sessions that, yawn, leave marks but no real impression.

What this latest vampire musical shares with its fellow vampire musicals is a big price tag -- "Lestat's" spreadsheet involves a reported 12 million smackers -- and the goal of a "Phantom"-caliber mystique. The only thing distinguishing this musical from its late, unlamented predecessors is that the lead vampires play for the, er, other team. In other words, "Lestat's" contribution to art and equality is demonstrating that a gay vampire with a two-octave range can be just as dull as a straight one.

[Mitch]

It's Anne Rice, were you expecting quality?

[Rod Stafford]

Originally posted by Mitch
It's Anne Rice, were you expecting quality?

It's a shame how much validity that statement holds these days.

[Vega Van-Derveld]

Originally posted by Mitch
It's Anne Rice, were you expecting quality?

Oh no. Right from when this first was proposed, I knew it was going to be awful. It was just a question of how awful.

As an aside, I am amazed that this went ahead. Apparently Anne Rice herself had no part in the creation of the musical. Usually she would be freaking out, worrying about her precious little Lestat. I guess she trusts Elton John

[Rod Stafford]

Originally posted by Vega Van-Derveld
I guess she trusts Elton John

Well, since poor Aaliyah passed away, I'm sure she's been looking for a new Queen of the Damned.

[Mandy with an I]

Originally posted by Rod Stafford
Well, since poor Aaliyah passed away, I'm sure she's been looking for a new Queen of the Damned.

lol.

Shouldn't this musical have come out like, ages ago? I remember being really into Anne Rice (Okay, not that into - I could only read one of her novels) in Grade 9

[Darth McBain]

I can't stand any of her stuff... Interview with the Vampire was the one and only movie that I hated so much that I actually walked out of. I'm pretty forgiving when it comes to movies and I can usually stay through about anything, but I just thought that one was such garbage I couldn't justify staying in the theater...

And to make a musical based on it??? Sounds like a pretty lousy idea to me - just some people trying to capitalize on something to try to make a buck...

[Jedi Master Carr]

I liked Interview with the Vampire, I haven't read much of her work besides that novel except for the Mummy book that she wrote. She is an okay writer. She doesnt't hold up to Stephen King though.