Lestat to Close on Broadway May 28- Page 3
Lestat to Close on Broadway May 28
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#50re: Lestat to Close on Broadway May 28
Posted: 5/24/06 at 12:11amBring garlic!
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jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#51re: Lestat to Close on Broadway May 28
Posted: 5/24/06 at 12:15am
Steve2
If you need to see more vampire musicals, please by your tickets closer to the start of the run. That way, the last performance will come much faster.
"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions"
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"Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it, I swear I'll never do it again til the next time company comes."--"Lulu"
from "Can't Stop The Music"
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"Passions" is uncancelled! See NBC.com for more info.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#52re: Lestat to Close on Broadway May 28
Posted: 5/24/06 at 12:28am
Roxy is right, it's all the critics fault. Each fantastic vampire musical has been more superb than the one before. Audiences would have lapped them up at a hundred bucks a pop were it not for the hypnotic spell of the critics, who somehow managed to actually prevent people who had every intention of seeing these incredible works until the critics did their voodoo upon them. Fortunately, we have next season's "Nosfertu Cristina," a choreotonepoem by Michael John LaChialasoapsosousa to look foward to. This one is a can't miss.
Start your petitions now!
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Updated On: 5/24/06 at 12:28 AM
broadwaybelter
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/26/04
#53re: Lestat to Close on Broadway May 28
Posted: 5/24/06 at 12:35amwow oh wow...such a talented cast...there will be tons of other shows for them so it won't be a problem. I know Carolee has upcoming things on her plate!
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#54re: Lestat to Close on Broadway May 28
Posted: 5/24/06 at 12:36amI'm glad I got to see it. I didn't think it was terrible. I didn't think it was very good...but still. The performances were fantastic. I wish all the luck to the cast and crew!
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
#55re: Lestat to Close on Broadway May 28
Posted: 5/24/06 at 1:06amAnyone else wanna see Allison Fischer as Eponine in Les Mis?
#56re: Lestat to Close on Broadway May 28
Posted: 5/24/06 at 1:10amYes, but not in the immediate future.
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#57re: Lestat to Close on Broadway May 28
Posted: 5/24/06 at 1:19amSomeone said "Don't expect Warner Bros. to come back to Broadway any time soon." As Roxy Hart would say, "Are you kidding?" Producing a Boradway show is actually MUCH better odds than their main business, movies. A film can costy 250 million dollars now (Posideon) plust another 30 million for advertising. And when you have a massive flop like that sunken boat, entire regiemes can fall. The most expensive musical costs about what it costs to rent the cameras for a film nowadays, so they'll be back. If they spend the cost of ONE film on Broadway, they have ten chances to succeed. And it only takes one to turn on a pretty good spiggott. I thinks they'll be back again.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=972787#3631451
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=963561#3533883
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955158#3440952
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954269#3427915
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955012#3441622
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954344#3428699
batboy4692
Chorus Member Joined: 4/11/06
#58re: Lestat to Close on Broadway May 28
Posted: 5/24/06 at 1:19am
This is sad. I'm kind of shocked they didn't hold out until June and July to see if the summer picked things up for them.
But I wish the best to the incredibly talented cast.
Why do we feel bad for the cast? Because they have worked incredibly hard on a show that is written terribly and made it something enjoyable because THEY are so talented. It's a hard thing to pull off. And it isn't always that easy to just...get another job. As an actor you can't afford to pick and choose and not take a show simply because they read the script before they signed on (which isn't necessarily true, by the way - and it was completely re-written after San Francisco anyway). WHO would turn down a new Elton John show, produced by Warner Brothers if that's all that you knew about it before hand? It would sound like a sure-fire hit and a long running job providing financial security and a lot of fun as well. This has got to be hard for them all, investing in something they went into believe would be a long running job for once in such an unsteady business.
And on top of all of that, this is one of the worst times of the year to be out of work as an actor because everything is pretty much cast by now and auditions don't pick back up again until August/September.
Anyway, BEST OF LUCK TO YOU ALL!! You are in our thoughts!!
#59re: Lestat to Close on Broadway May 28
Posted: 5/24/06 at 4:06amIt's sad to see this show closing so soon! It wasn't the best show, but i enjoyed the great performances.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
angelforlife
Swing Joined: 5/17/06
#60re: Lestat to Close on Broadway May 28
Posted: 5/24/06 at 7:46am
batboy just hit the nail on the head - the cast is incredibly talented, regardless of what people think about the show itself. These people have families to take care of, of course they took the work for what seemed to be a potentially successful musical - my heart goes out to them. They poured so much into the show and it was evident on stage.
Warner Brothers is crazy to close it before the summer when a good majority of their target audience will finally be out of high school and college. I've got several very upset friends that already had tickets that will never get to see it now, and for those fans that did enjoy it, Warner Brothers has probably alienated several of them from ever getting invested in one of their shows again. I know I'm certainly one of them.
Don't believe everything the critics tell you.
Go See Lestat.
http://www.goseelestat.com
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#61re: Lestat to Close on Broadway May 28
Posted: 5/24/06 at 8:00am
Define "spiggott"lease.
What a lovely word!
#62re: Lestat to Close on Broadway May 28
Posted: 5/24/06 at 12:51pmIt was inevitable. It was just a bad show with a great cast.
#63re: Lestat to Close on Broadway May 28
Posted: 5/24/06 at 1:01pm
Just walked by on lunch break and snagged a ticket for tonight. I'd told myself I wasn't going to see it but the closing notice plus the lure of the Carolee sucked me in.
21.25 for front and center mezz (with my friend who has a student ID) - you almost can't argue with that.
Now what would you say if today I started over?
Without a thing but this taped together four leaf clover
And I'll pretend like everything is already alright
And I'll run toward the sun till the castle's out of sight
#64re: Lestat to Close on Broadway May 28
Posted: 5/24/06 at 1:05pm
I just went there on my lunch break too...to buy my ticket for Sunday.
Updated On: 5/24/06 at 01:05 PM
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#66re: Lestat to Close on Broadway May 28
Posted: 5/24/06 at 1:19pmI can't even believe this horror of a show even made it to Broadway. Seriously, with all the reviews and word of mouth and everything, how could they even bring it to Broadway? It's sad when people loose jobs true...but it never had any business being in NYC.
landryjames
Understudy Joined: 8/17/05
#67re: Lestat to Close on Broadway May 28
Posted: 5/24/06 at 1:28pm
Great Performances? or Great Performers? There is a difference. Although I think Carolee, Hugh, etc. are great performers, I don't think there were any great performances in the production.
Everything about the show was horridly atrocious.
I am excited to see these performers in more worthy vehicles.
beav
Understudy Joined: 5/19/06
#68re: Lestat to Close on Broadway May 28
Posted: 5/24/06 at 1:33pmI think that the story of Lestat is a beautiful one. And I really believe that it should make a great musical. Hopefully one day, someone will do this story justice.
#69re: Lestat to Close on Broadway May 28
Posted: 5/24/06 at 3:10pm
I am going tomorrow Night! Even though it is a school nigh and I won't be hometill around midnight, I don't care! I am getting my tix today!
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#70re: Lestat to Close on Broadway May 28
Posted: 5/24/06 at 3:40pmWhen I saw it was closing on ShowBiz Tonight, last night. I laughed, is that bad?
#71re: Lestat to Close on Broadway May 28
Posted: 5/24/06 at 4:03pmYeah probably. I don't like to scoff at other shows. hehe
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
#72re: Lestat to Close on Broadway May 28
Posted: 5/24/06 at 4:38pm
I saw the show last night friday and enjoyed it,loved the cast
by far the nicest cast i have ever met.
#73re: Lestat to Close on Broadway May 28
Posted: 5/24/06 at 5:01pm
sooo what do they do with the tickets that were already sold to it??? Just refund the money???
Anyway :) think it will be crowded this weekend or empty cause of it?? I'm gona be at hte saturday 8pm showing actually.
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#74re: Lestat to Close on Broadway May 28
Posted: 5/24/06 at 5:19pm
I just came back from a matinee. I am SHOCKED.
I liked it. It was not a great show but I was entertained.
Go see it this weekend. It is a very entertaining show.
It was the first Vampire show that did not SUCK.
(I am also not saying it is great, but it is very entertaining)
The performers are so talented. It was a great surprise!
It was better than so many other shows that lasted a lot longer.
(Festen, BKLYN, Dracula)
Hugh Panaro, CC and the entire cast have incredible voices. CC blew me away. I wish they would bring back KISS ME KATE and put her back on Broadway where she belongs. CC is a gifted performer!
I hope they revive Kiss Me Kate and put it into the PALACE.
Updated On: 5/24/06 at 05:19 PM
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