so can some one with a modicum of objectivity please post a striaght forward and clear review of the show "lestat" i am in new york and can't see it but i heard its remarkable.
There's quite a few on the main message board, also, check sfgate.com tommorow, should have the SF Chronicles review. The Bay Guardian and SF Weekly's should be out in the new isues Wednesday.
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Lestat Average Reader Rating: (1.88 stars, 32 votes) Number of Reviews: 16
Absolute Garbage, January 1, 2006 Reviewer: rikfriday I just saw Lestat in San Francisco. The show is one boring, endless, repetitive non-interesting, uninvolving, useless piece of theatrical garbage.
The production is without any musical or dramatic value whatsover. The music is endless, monotonous and dull. The story is a boring, drawn out, humorless, incomprehensible echo of the film 'interview with a vampire'.
I like Elton John, and I would say there are, at most, 2 minutes of good music in this show, which lasts about 3 hours. The music sounds exactly the same (boring opera-like drab, tedious songs) from start to finish, save about 7 bars toward the end, where a minor amount of actual Elton John-ish harmonic color rises unexpectedly in one very short choral finale.
To say that this is the worst musical ever written, is an insult to the word 'worst'...
The audience was mostly stunned into silence during the performance, and the curtain call was short and swift. I find it hard to believe this show will play on Broadway.
It would be a better show if they played all the audio-visual background projections for three hours and left all the actors off the stage entirely.
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. . . . A complete waste of time, January 4, 2006 Reviewer: molex3 The reviews here that rave about this... thing... can only be the result of delirious fandom gone horribly awry. This play stinks, it's awful, it's unwatchable. My wife and I, who have both read and enjoyed the books by Anne Rice that this steaming pile of theatrical dung is based on, left at the intermission, the play is AWFUL.
The "drama" is so poorly crafted that it borders on comical. The half-hearted turns given by the cast are clearly phoned-in, and contain nothing even bordering on heat, passion or believability. The mawkish sets and poorly integrated film-style clips only serve to highlight the utter paucity of entertainment to be had. The musical score is painfully at odds with the material at hand, and the scripting is simply terrible.
This play is a bomb. I heartily regret spending (wasting, actually) the money to see this flop.
One review here got it 100% right already: To say this is the worst musical ever is indeed an insult to the word "worst".
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. . . . Pointless Trash, January 3, 2006 Reviewer: sslayton01 I recently saw Lestat in San Francisco. I have not read the Vampire series, and this fact, combined with the horrible music, made the play almost unbearable. The plot was fragmented, and the dialog was uninteresting. All said, I wasted $300 for 2 tickets.
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. . . . Don't waste your time and money, January 6, 2006 Reviewer: jferrare2 Lestat is, unfortunately, one of the worst Broadway-quality musicals I've ever seen. Some good performances, though the child who plays Claudia appears to have been plucked from the cast of "Annie." One spectatcular song in the second act. I almost left at intermission, and except for this one song, would not have missed anything new. I don't know what they can do in 2 months to make this ready for New York. Good luck!
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. . . . This Show Will Die, Not Live Forever, January 5, 2006 Reviewer: zcrunchz Lestat is ill-conceived, badly written, poorly performed and doomed to fail and die.
THIS SHOW WILL CLOSE OUT OF TOWN. IT WILL NEVER PLAY ON BROADWAY.
They should have called this show 'Satan Superstar'. It is ugly, in bad taste, and an obvious complete failure. If you have tickets to this show, bring a bag of rotten tomatoes and throw them at the actors.
That will be the only form of entertainment you will experience the entire evening.
This show will go down in history as one of the biggest musical disasters since the live orchestra went down with the Titanic.
I was sitting in the fifth row center for this show, and I moved back to a rear seat during the break, just to get away from it.
After the first five minutes of Lestat, be prepared, because you are going to see the same five minutes of material over and over for three hours.
The only thing that wasn't repetitive was the curtain call, because there was only one.
I suggest everyone who attends, bring the entire 'Vampire Chronicles' by Anne Rice and a flashlight and pour through them during the show, because there is no other way you will make sense out of anything that goes on from start to finish.
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. . . . Underwhelmed and disappointed, January 4, 2006 Reviewer: cilla4991 Attended Jan 3 performance in SF and was very disappointed, particularly with the score. There were only 2-3 notable songs and the remaining numbers were words sung to dull music. No sustaining, key melody. First act dragged as a tiresome series of relationship reflections. Second act improved when the show focused on deeper dimensions of fewer characters. Set design was well-done, but does not measure up to Elton John's Disney-funded musicals. Excessive use of multi-media that undermined the artistic creativity of live stage performances. On a positive note, the cast and vocal talent were strong for all key roles.
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. . . . Die already!, January 6, 2006 Reviewer: ortbi An absolute disaster of a musical. If it wassn't raining outside, I would have left at the intermission. What a complete waste of money. Boring music and a story so confusing you need the books to follow along. I really can't say enough bad things about it. DON'T GO! Sell your tickets to anyone crazy enough to think this was a great play and wants to see it again!
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Give me a break. Variety so full of hot air. This review dances around saying the show is unwatchable in such elegant prose, i imagine the writer dates the director.
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