"Lestat" - Live Forever or Die Now! — Page 2

I want to know if Anne Rice has seen it and what she thinks.

Well, she and her son Chris were there opening night. I saw about a half-second clip of her on Channel 7 (our ABC affiliate) where all she said was something like, "I'm really nervous for the actors. I can't believe what they're going through backstage right now."

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I prefer to be shrouded in mystery.

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Thanks for the info EAD1974, and Please, You, Lizzie & Justme2, Keep us informed - Your honest impressions are always most appreciated. I know I gave Lizzie a hard time a while ago, But I will always speak up first when I'm out of line or just plain wrong. I think of all folks LizzieCurry knows that about me now. I'd LIKE to see a "Vampire Musical" have a great run and do well, But if it is not to be then I accept it. We shall soon see.

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Obviously, I have different feelings about this show than most of you, but after having seen it I realized what it had made me think of. And forgive me, but I'm about to get all Comic-Book Geek on you..

growing up I was a huge X-Men fan, so when the movie came out I was there on day one. I thought the movie was decent...the casting was great, it was faithfull to the comics, yet something about the execution was only..average. Still, I really liked the movie just for being so faithfull to the source and treating it with seriousness and not camp.

Just two years later, the same cast and crew re-united, got their **** together and made what I ( And many other fans and Critics ) think is one of the best comic book movies, X2.

In my mind, Lestat is like that..all the right ingredients are there, it just needs that extra something...We shall see if it gets the TLC it needs.

No!! They need to make the CD before they end it! Argh, just like Lennon. That makes me very mad...

Yeah you can go on forever about how good or bad, but who cares, give me a CD!

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So Roth has been Fired Again??

We are supposed to see it the end of March. looks like may have to consider a replacement

Just imagine every Broadway house playing a show that closed out of town - the mind boggles

A Mothers Kisses
The Mambo Kings
Prettybelle
Mata Hari
Zenda
Gone With The Wind
1491
We Take The Town
At The Grand

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well if its true that they'll delay the Broadway debut by a month, there still may be some hope of a rescue

ummmmm...why can't a Vampire musical work again? I mean, not talking about this show in particular, just in general. Is there some logical reason? You can't use the "there's not an audience" line..I mean, Anne Rice has sold something like 50 Million copies of the Vampire Chronicles alone, so there's an audience ( And the fact that bad reviews and presumably bad word of mouth couldn't keep people from seeing the show in SF; tickets at the Curran sold really well from what I understand )whether or not Lestat is transformed and prospers or dies on the vine, saying a certain subject "can't work" on Broadway ever just seems very short sighted.

Ohhhhh there'll be plenty of prime seating available.

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... providing it ever gets to New York at all.

Hmmm. I'm surprised that Anne Rice has had much to do with the musical at all. Hasn't she all but disowned her 'darker' work now that she's converted?

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I have a book called Conversations with Anne Rice, which is a collection of interviews with her over the years, and in one of them she mentions that Elton and Bernie Taupin had approached her to do a Broadway musical sometime in the late 80's, but Warner brothers who owns the rights didn't want anything to get in the way of their then in production version of Interview with the Vampire, so it was nipped in the bud. But clearly Elton and Bernie have had this notion for a while.

I wonder if the "new consultant" (AKA show doctor) is going to be credited fully for his/her work. At any rate, I hope he/she is paid very well.