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The Vampire Lestat

Posted: 8/5/04 at 10:16pm

Anyone hear about the Vampire Lestat musical? I know it was being workshopped (with James Barbour, <3) but I haven't heard about it recently. I love the Vampire Chronicles, but I don't know how well it would transfer onto Broadway. (Sorry if this has been posted recently)

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Posted: 8/5/04 at 10:18pm

Actually this hasn't been discussed recently, and I can't wait for it! I had no idea Barbour was involved. That's fantastic!

"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."

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Posted: 8/5/04 at 10:21pm

Mmm James Barbour is my Broadway GOD. His voice *shiver shiver*. In Harry Potter the Musical (never gonna happen, never could happen, but still) I would cast him as Sirius. He's got that deep, gorgeous voice that *shivers again* Orgasmically delicious! But I dunno how he would look as a blonde--and Lestat HAS to be a blonde!

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Posted: 8/6/04 at 1:14am

I do know that the fresh and brilliant Michael Arden was Louis in the workshop. I would love to see him in the actual show, if it ever materializes (and after Michael's run in Bare).

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Posted: 8/6/04 at 8:34am

The thing is (I love how I'm every other poster hehe) it's an Elton John musical, right? So wouldn't that mean that it would have a lot of backing and be quickly produced? Big names = big money. Every show Elton has collaborated on has succeeded (I believe... or maybe I've only heard of the big ones).

I hope it happens. 'Queen of the Damned' was such a disappointment for me. 'The Vampire Lestat' is one of my favorite books, so they'll have to get all the facts right, not have him hooking up with every man, woman and child he sees (subtle erotica, subtle. And Vampires can't have sex in Anne Rice, Queen of the Damned people!).

Plus it wouldn't hurt to see James Barbour in leather pants.

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Posted: 8/6/04 at 8:47am

It also wouldn't hurt to see James Barbour and Michael Arden together in a very homo-erotic musical.

"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."

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Posted: 8/6/04 at 9:01am

I think I'm confusing 'Lestat' with the 'Queen of The Damned', but is 'Lestat' the one that goes into a lot of history and flashbacks? I read the three books one after another so I kind of get them confused. But the one book would seem hard to show on stage because it jumps around so much with the 'beginnings' of the Vampires and the statues.

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Posted: 8/6/04 at 9:04am

Lestat is a pretty linear story, actually. It starts with him waking up from his really, really long nap underground, finding a rock band and becoming a superstar. Then it does jump back to when he was made (I almost used the term 'sired' but that's Buffy. Mustn't mix the verses) and follows his life story up until that point.

Queen of the Damned the book jumps back and forth between different vampires as they encounter the wrath of Akasha and you get to hear this weird story of 2 red headed twins that you don't understand until the end.

Queen of the Damned the movie infused the two (poorly, I might say, but then, when is a movie ever as good as the book?).

Did that help?

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Posted: 8/6/04 at 9:09am

I would knock my mother down in the street to see James Barbour do this...

"Sir K, the Viscount of Uppity-shire...." -- kissmycookie

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Posted: 8/6/04 at 9:16am

I'm pretty sure when this was announced that I read that though the musical was called "The Vampire Lestat" it was incorporating the story of all of the Vampire Chronicles.

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Posted: 8/6/04 at 9:18am

oh my -- that would be tackling a bit too much of the story with little chance for charater development -- Lestat was the best of the novels (in my opinion)

"Sir K, the Viscount of Uppity-shire...." -- kissmycookie

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Posted: 8/6/04 at 9:18am

I would knock my mother down to see James sing the alphabet!

I'm so upset Assassins is closed. It felt like ages between Jane Eyre and it and now...

When he went touring, my friend was an usher at the show. I was at school in NY, obviously, and couldn't see it, but she got to talk to him! I was so jealous. She really had no idea who he was. She was just like 'yeah, I've got a friend who loves you'. Said he was really nice though... I miss everything happening in NY when I'm in Boston and everything in Boston when I'm in NY!

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Posted: 8/6/04 at 9:32am

Enough with the freakin' vampire musicals! Will they never learn???

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Posted: 8/6/04 at 10:29am

I think The Vampire Lestat was a good book. I mean, I read it when I was around 16, I can barely remember it now. That would really make sense to put it in a musical since he was supposed to be a rock star in that book.

I read Queen of the Damned too, but I never saw the movie.

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Posted: 8/6/04 at 10:46am

The Vampire Lestat is NOTHING like other vampire shows. Dance of the Vampires, Dracula, I think these are more classic vampire renditions. Lestat is kind of like 'Angel' (sob, WESLEY) except no soul (sorry for all of you non-Whedonverse people, had to slip that in). Lestat deals with what it means to be a vampire, the morality issues beneath it, finding a way in a world he can never be a part of. Lestat is like no other vampire I've ever read about/watched on TV/seen in the movies. Spike comes the closest. He is NOT brooding, quite the opposite, but he really works through his ethical dilema.

Okay, so Lestat's one of my literary loves, if you couldn't tell. Along with Erik, Frederick Garland, Mr. Darcy, Mr. Rochester, Sirius Black (and Harry Potter but sh I don't *want* to be a pedifile!) and plenty of others.

So, it really *isn't* like all the other vampire stories, at least, I don't think so.

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Posted: 8/6/04 at 12:37pm

I think an Anne Rice musical could be amazing, if they kept the feel of the books and made it more of an opera or operetta than a musical (it really must be sung-through - I can't see Lestat bursting into song).

But The Vampire Lestat has, as someone mentioned, a very linear story and no dramatic arc. It's really just a chronology, isn't it? I think Interview of the Vampire would be the most obvious choice for adaptation, because it has more of a dramatic shape, and people are already familiar with the movie version. (And The Queen of the Damned, which was my favourite, is too much like an action movie).

And yes, a homoerotic musical version with James Barbour and Michael Arden would steam my glasses up.

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Posted: 8/6/04 at 12:44pm

what IS enough is Wildhorn's "thriller" musicals.

Next up for him: Frankenstein.

But I won't live alone in a house of regret.

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Posted: 8/6/04 at 12:45pm

I wouldn't want to see 'Interview--the Musical' just because of the movie. And Lestat is seen only through Louis's eyes as 'the bad guy', which anyone who's read any of the other books knows that Lestat is actually the hero of the series (ah, Lestat, how I love thee).

And, yes, it's his life story. Very, very linear. But I think if they base it on the morality aspect, like I heard they were doing, it could come out well. Lestat goes on a lot of journeys--for what purpose?--to find out what it is to be a vampire. That could be the story arc, I think.

You know what I always wanted to be made into a musical? The Witch of Blackbird Pond. That was my fav book in 5th grade and I still remember it.

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Posted: 8/6/04 at 12:46pm

And leomax, Lestat isn't Wildhorn. It's an Elton John thing.

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Posted: 8/6/04 at 1:21pm

Eeew, Wildhorn. I really, really don't like his work.

One thing I forgot to mention: the reason there has been no news of The Vampire Lestat musical since the workshop is probably because Elton John is working on his Billy Elliot musical instead.

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Posted: 8/6/04 at 2:08pm

I thought Billy Elliot was already up and running in London...?

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Posted: 8/6/04 at 3:08pm

Billy is later this year or ealry next -- there was supposed to be a "pre-london" tryout in New Castle that got cancelled...

As said earlier -- not al "vampire" musicals have been seen by all of us -- for me not attending DOTV and Dracula is intentional -- I love the Vampire novels and the Lestat character and book are my favorite and on the surface, something I woudl be interested in seeing

"Sir K, the Viscount of Uppity-shire...." -- kissmycookie

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