Will Lestat Ever Be In Non-Broadway Theatres Since It's Canceled?

I doubt that Lestat will make its way into community/regional theatres.

And, it's a cast recording. (I'm just sayin', better for me to telly ou than someone else.)

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"Normal" theatres.

LOL.

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Lizzie you took the words right out of my mouth.

"Is it likely that any normal theatres will have Lestat the musical at some point?"

No. No normal theatre would be dumb enough.

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I love Sweet Smell of Success...I know random, but just saying.

It's hard to say, but I feel it's unlikely.

While many shows prove to have a relatively healthy life after flopping on Broadway because people fall in love with the cast album ("Baker's Wife", "Merrily We Roll Along", "Rags", "Working", etc.), "Lestat" has many huge obstacles.

It's very costume heavy (300 years or so's worth). Scenery you can skimp on if you have great costumes.

So, you've just ruled out most small and amateur theater groups. The only ones left would be college theaters.

And I don't see Elton John or Bernie Taupin being the way Stephen Schwartz is, encouraging smaller productions of his flops for the chance to keep working on it.

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I'm sure somewhere down the line some idiot or group of idiots who believe LESTAT was underappreciated and the greatest musical ever written will start a writing campaign on Broadwayworld, insisting on its revival, like CARRIE. Or some brain-dead producer will rent out the York theater for a one-night-only concert/benefit of LESTAT at the York with second-rate Broadway performers in the hopes that investors will recognize a masterpiece for what it is and transfer the show to Broadway. This is why New York musical theater is a dinosaur lumbering to its death. Please, God, let it happen soon so we can move on to the next epoch.


Allison MacKenzie
Peyton Place, New Hampshire

Um. Wow. This is my favorite thread of the day. Thank you.

It sure would be interesting in the round.

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