Lestat to Close on Broadway May 28- Page 4

[showbiz287]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 5:31pm

I had tickets for June...I switched them for Wedding Singer.

[Tiny-Toon]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 5:40pm

Good choice showbiz! haha

Anybody knows about the Merch. Lestat is selling at the theater?

Updated On: 5/24/06 at 05:40 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 8:08pm

A person from our building saw it today & agreed with us saying it was phenominal & had a few choice words (unprintable) for the critics

[All_For_Laura]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 9:22pm

I am planning on buying a souveneir program tomorrow to get signed! I already have the die young live forever shirt, but maybe I will buy the other one.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 9:22pm

I shoulda bought a shirt in SF! I knew it.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 9:43pm

A friend went today & all souvenirs 50 % off. The shirts were going like hotcakes & the hats are already gone

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 9:45pm

Dammit, I guess that means they won't be in BroadwayNewYork's bargain bin, then, hm?

[All_For_Laura]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 10:15pm

Exciting! I will have to buy another shirt since its so cheap!

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 10:37pm

I really wanted a program. Damn.

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 10:46pm

I hope there are some programs left on Sunday...I must have one.

[perfectliar]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 10:50pm

Any idea how quickly the student rush tickets go for the Saturday matinee?

[Laura King]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 11:20pm

"I am sad that Warners suffered so badly on its first outing..."

Nope, sorry. Can't agree with you there, and I'll tell you why:

I write to you from Los Angeles. The paper of record here is the Los Angeles Times. Just about once a year (usually summer), the LA Times publishes an article about how important sequels are to the film industry. They're pre-sold, etc.

"Interview with the Vampire" (1994) made (according to BoxOfficeMojo.com) 105 million against 60 for production and advertising, a successful film. Why then did it take Warner Bros. SEVEN YEARS to produce a sequel, and why such a sequel as they did? And now this, THIS?! This misbegotten, scathingly reviewed, closed-after-a-month stage musical? Did NO ONE at Warner's (supposed professionals all) not see the train wreck headed straight for them?

Warner's has, in my opinion, been doing a piss-poor job of managing this franchise. Feel sorry for the cast, the crew, the audience? Absolutely. Feel sorry for Warner's? Sorry:

THEY HAD IT COMIN'
THEY HAD IT COMIN'
THEY ONLY HAVE THEMSELVES TO BLAME
IF YOU HAD BEEN THERE
IF YOU HAD SEEN IT
I BETCHA YOU WOULD FEEL THE SAME!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 11:29pm

But Laura, Mr. Roxy says the show was "phenominal," and apparently it's just the fault of the critics that the show is closing. In fact, with his logic, if the producers had opted not to allow critics to see the show and threatened to sue anybody who reviewed it on their own dime, the theater would have been SWARMING with delighted audience members on a nightly basis.

[Tiny-Toon]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 11:43pm

The program was $10 tonight, is that what it usually costs?

Magnets were $5, I think.

Updated On: 5/24/06 at 11:43 PM

[All_For_Laura]

Posted: 5/25/06 at 6:49am

Um I thought I would be sitting in the balcony row A for tonights performance, but I just woke up and my dad surprised me with orchestra row B tickets! I am so excited!!!!

[Laura King]

Posted: 5/25/06 at 10:09pm

“But, Laura, Mr. Roxy says the show is “phenominal”…”

I imagine that’s because he loves the characters and wishes the show had succeeded, emotions I can certainly understand. Imagine how enthusiastic he might have been had the show been better.

Since the show received its negative reviews, I’ve noticed a lot of “It’s not that bad,” postings, both here and at LestatMusical.com. I’m sorry, but “not bad” is NOT GOOD ENOUGH. Not for a property with as much potential as this one. “Interview with the Vampire” was a successful film and it was a DOWNER. The little girl DIES. It is narrated by (all together now) LOUIS. I hope Warner Bros. understands that the passion, devotion and effort displayed by the likes of Mr. Roxy and the other play fans is but indicative of the volcanic passion, devotion, effort and yea, sales, that might be unleashed by a PROPER rendition of the material. (You do understand that, right, WB?)

The medium for this property was not theater. Theatre is expensive to attend and requires its audience either to live nearby or undertake the expense of travel. Theater automatically limits its own exposure. Moreover, attempting to depict scenes as the killing of a pack of wolves by either A: projecting wolf stills onto screens whilst amplified snarls play on the P.A. or B: requiring an actor to fight imaginary wolves in pantomime, is just ridiculous. The medium for this property is cinema. Violent, erotic, opulent, balls-out, CGI-augmented, hard-R-rated CINEMA. Susan Hilfery can do the costumes. Linda Woolverton MAY NOT write the script.

Fortunately, the very studio that screwed up this production is the same studio that coined the Hollywood term “reboot” when it kicked sand over the two Joel Schumacher-directed Batman movies in favor of 2005’s successful "Batman Begins." The second film adaptation of Anne Rice’s books, 2001’s “The Queen of the Damned” (herinafter “That Second Piece of Crap,” or TSPOC) completely ignored the first film, meaning that the third film can easily ignore the second…and a certain recent, unfortunate stage musical.

So there you go, Warner Brothers. It’s real simple. Reboot Lestat!

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 5/26/06 at 12:35pm

This makes me terribly sad For Hugh, Elton... and I was going to see it in October... *sniff*

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 5/26/06 at 12:56pm

Were there any souvenir programs left yesterday? I'm hoping to snag one of the last few when I go to the theater on Sunday afternoon.