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Title: Lestat: The Vampire Musical Post by: Shockeye on August 25, 2005, 08:52:07 AM Quote from: SCI FI Wire Musical Lestat To Hit Boards (http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=32172) After more than two years of development, Warner Brothers Theatre Ventures on Aug. 23 told the Los Angeles Times that it will be ready to premiere a musical adaptation of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles at San Francisco's Curran Theatre in December, with a Broadway opening planned for next spring. Called Lestat and featuring a score by the famed pop writing team of Elton John and Bernie Taupin, the production will star Hugh Panaro, who has appeared on Broadway in Les Misérables, Show Boat and The Phantom of the Opera, the newspaper reported. Also in the cast are Carolee Carmello, Jack Noseworthy, Jim Stanek, Roderick Hill, Michael Genet and Allison Fischer. Lestat, the first Broadway offering from Warner, has a book by Linda Woolverton and will be directed by Robert Jess Roth, both of whom filled similar roles on Disney's first Broadway hit, Beauty and the Beast. It will run in San Francisco from Dec. 17 through Jan. 29. Fun for the whole family. Title: Re: Lestat: The Vampire Musical Post by: Murgos on August 25, 2005, 08:59:38 AM Well, that certainly sounds like it is going to attract an interesting crowd.
Title: Re: Lestat: The Vampire Musical Post by: Lt.Dan on August 25, 2005, 09:05:21 AM Looks sure to keep the homoerotic undertones of Anne Rice's original.
Title: Re: Lestat: The Vampire Musical Post by: Llava on August 25, 2005, 01:44:10 PM Just when you thought it couldn't get gayer...
Title: Re: Lestat: The Vampire Musical Post by: kaid on August 25, 2005, 02:53:26 PM It would be fun to bring a sunlamp to that musical to see how many of the audiance you could scare away.
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