Originally Posted By leemac Warner Bros have confirmed that their $15m disaster Lestat is to close on Broadway after just 39 performance. The last show will be on Sunday.
Originally Posted By DlandDug Does this mean the bus and truck tour won't be coming to the Orange County Performing Arts Center???
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Ouch. Lestat has music written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin as I recall.
Originally Posted By BrnardM Yeah, I don't think I've ever heard of a show closing that quickly. Hard to beleive it was 'that bad'.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Maybe they should have aimed to stage a bad musical based on Hitler and bomb on purpose..
Originally Posted By ToonKirby >Yeah, I don't think I've ever heard of a show closing that quickly. Hard to beleive it was 'that bad'.< Back in the day, shows could close after one night, (although that would probably never happen now with advance sales and all). For example, the infamous musical version of Stephen King's "Carrie" closed after 3 performances in 1988.
Originally Posted By BrnardM Carrie? Wow, just wow.....and apparantly there is a Superman musical out there somewhere too.
Originally Posted By leemac It just might make other movie studios (**cough** DreamWorks **cough**) think twice before throwing a lot of cash at Broadway to emulate Disney. Warner Bros. got the three key Beauty & the Beast players together for this one (Linda Woolverton, Book, Robert Jess Roth, Director and Matt West, musical staging) thinking it was that easy to create a musical.
Originally Posted By jasmine7 <<and apparantly there is a Superman musical out there somewhere too.<< Yep, "It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Superman!" I heard a little bit of the music a few years ago on the old DirecTV Broadway music channel. Cheese is a good word for it, lol.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <For example, the infamous musical version of Stephen King's "Carrie" closed after 3 performances in 1988.> "It's a simple little gig. You help me kill a pig." (Note: actual lyrics from that show).
Originally Posted By TheRedhead There's a great book out there all about Broadway flops called "Not Since Carrie." It is very entertaining. A friend of mine saw a preview of Carrie. The glee in which he described the show to me is impossible to convey over message boards. I remember him saying that (at the start of the show) the theater was completely dark, and suddenly you heard a girl's voice shout, "I'm bleeding." He said the audience erupted in laughter. I would love to have seen it.
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF ^^^ I'm not 100% sure of this, but I'd heard it isn't available for performance. I think the writer should release it; I imagine it would have quite a life as a campy musical. Maybe high schools could perform it! ;-)
Originally Posted By LadyKluck I haven't heard of this musical at all - are we talking THE Lestat? As in the Vampire Lestat?
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF It's actually based on "The Vampire Lestat" and, I think, part of "Queen of the Damned."
Originally Posted By LadyKluck Okie Dokie then - just checking! I can honestly say I never read any of those books thinking "WOW this would make a great musical"!
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF When I heard the idea I thought, "Oh, brother." Here's the official website. Better grab a look before it's taken down: <a href="http://www.lestat.com/" target="_blank">http://www.lestat.com/</a> At least they didn't try to adapt "The Witching Hour" as a musical.
Originally Posted By LadyKluck Well, I'd have to say I agree on the "Oh brother" comment! Kinda funny because when I first started looking at that site, I was like "they're trying to make another Phantom of the Opera" - sure enough, the guy who plays Lestat has played BOTH the Phantom and Raul!! LOL!!
