LESTAT the MUSICAL, please lock up Elton so this won't happen!

When I heard the news I was dumfounded my all time favorite homoerotic story of The Vampire Lestat. HOW can they destroy it by making it a musicsl? Please does anyone know any info on this. Is anyone as shocked and appauled as I am! This is a very sad day for me.

Winston's Opera is the best book ever written....the show didn't really live up to it, though. I blame the set design.

Well, I remember in an interviews, Brooks said that the book is too long to make into a musical. I'm glad he only used Volume I - with J.T.. I didn't like Volume II - where Winston gets another chance to write an Opera - and he chooses homeless people. Although, the second volume has a hilarious line. Winston comes down and sees a group of homeless people harmonizing together and he says, "Only in Brooklyn do the homeless sing and people throw money at them!"

Well, I guess it isn't funyn out of context...

Updated On: 12/8/05 at 05:32 PM

I'm sure people originally thought that Victor Hugo's book would be destroyed as well but it seemed that that turned out okay.

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Well some would argue that Jonathan Larson destroyed La Boheme...but I won't go there.

Give it a chance. It may surprise you. The creatives and cast behind it are all first rate.

BSoBW has made this the best thread ever.

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I guess those that don't have a true love of the first three Vampire Chronicles will either ignore this post and have private convos or just tell me im' overracting. I give the Musical 2 months on Broadway at the most.

Are they adapting all 3 of the first novels into the musical? I wasn't aware of that.

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*double post*

No idea how that happened.

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Updated On: 12/8/05 at 06:10 PM

Yes...but as much as I love her, Rice doesn't always have the best judgement.

i am a BIG Anne Rice fan, ajay, and im kind of excited for this. One thing I like already is that its called Lestat- keeping the author's intention of having Lestat be the protagonist, even through Interview. which already separates it from the movie. it should be interesting. I think elton and the book writers and so forth should be able to keep a sound balance between the original feel of the books and what is appropriate to reach a broad audience. if we have Rocky Horror Show, why cant we have this? right? Also, if youre worried about how the music is going to sound, I believe a couple of the songs are out and about. do a thread search im sure theres a link to a couple of them in here somewhere. i dunno, im hoping its good, trying to go in with a positive attitude, not expect too much and all that. it will be what it will be.

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I think that she would say she hated it if she did, yes. She completely detatched herself from the IWTV movie after losing the battle to have someone other than Tom Cruise cast as Lestat, and then had to eat her words after seeing how wonderful he was in the movie. So I don't think that she's going to be supportive of something that she thinks is doing injustice to her work.

Exactly. I remember her being VERY annoyed at the casting of Tom Cruise in Interview. I also remember the open letter of apology she wrote after seeing the finished movie.

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