LESTAT OFFICIALLY DELAYED!!!- Page 3

[blaxx]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 3:00pm

blaxx....I saw Dracula with Frank Langella twice on Broadway. Great show! Sat in the second row the first time and to see his eys do that thing they do, shifting side to side, was really creepy and worked so well!

Yeah, but I'm sure that he didn't sing, my friend :)

[Loge]

Posted: 2/3/06 at 7:20pm

You know what - Elton John is a pissy little queen (I'm a queen too - just a nice one), so I have no sympathy for him, and actually enjoyed laughing at his expense when I saw Lestat in January. The critics and people who saw it were NOT vicious - we were honest. The show sucks really bad. It's terrible. There are no creative redeeming qualities in the score, book, or lyrics, which make up the heart of the musical. The score sucks, the lyrics suck, the book sucks. The performing talent is great, the costumes are great, the lighting is great, the sets are great. The problem is Elton and Bernie - that's it...Elton and Bernie...they wrote a stinker of a tuner banking on their names to fill the seats. That is not going to happen. I hope they can work out it out, but it will take massive rewrites, and I just don't see how there's enough time. Elton was just here this past weekend to see it. Why did he wait so long?

Updated On: 2/3/06 at 07:20 PM

[justme2]

Posted: 2/3/06 at 7:35pm

Tell us how you really feel...don't hold back now.

[Shawk]

Posted: 2/3/06 at 7:42pm

Bernie Taupin, from what I've heard, has been very involved in the development of the musical. Remember, he's not worked on a musical before. Maybe he wasn't the best choice to write the lyrics, but he is putting in the hours.

I don't think he's the one doing the coasting on his name.

[Loge]

Posted: 2/3/06 at 7:46pm

Have you seen it? I mean I sat there thinking, "How could they possibly think this is good material?" There's no way. It is horrible, except for the song "More" which was great! That's it - one song in a whole show does not make a good musical. Brantley is going to have a field day with this one.

[Shawk]

Posted: 2/3/06 at 7:50pm

Oh, I saw it. Twice. I'm not saying it's great theatre, because it clearly isn't. There were a number of jaw-droppingly awful moments, Act I was boring and confusing at the same time, and the ending was totally ridiculous. But I think there were also a few good moments, and I think the cast could do wonders if they were given something worth performing.

We'll see if a miracle gets pulled out, I guess. I guess I just don't like crowing, "DOOOM, DOOOOOOOM!" over something that is in progress, even if I have reservations about the possibility of turning things around (which I have expressed numerous times in various threads).

[Steve2]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 3:40pm

Has anyone heard how the "retooling" of Lestat is going?
The Lestat discussion/predictions seems to have disappeared.

Thanks.

[BroadwayBettini]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 3:43pm

It's the curse of the vampire musical.....I would think producers would have figured that out already.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 9:35pm

Has anyone heard how the "retooling" of Lestat is going?

Slowly.

[QMAN03]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 10:19pm

And painfully.