Elton & Lestat.. yeah, that makes sense
Apr. 4th, 2005 09:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drewanFrom Advocate.com: Elton John's Lestat musical to open in San Francisco
Elton John and Bernie Taupin's stage musical Lestat, based on the adventures of Anne Rice's pansexual vampire, will open in San Francisco this winter on its way to Broadway, reports Playbill.com. "Lestat, one of Anne Rice's most celebrated literary characters, is being brought to the stage in the first-ever collaboration of the legendary team of Elton John (music) and Bernie Taupin (lyrics) on a Broadway production," according to a statement from the Curran Theater, the venue for the San Francisco run. "Based on characters and incidents from Ms. Rice's best-selling novels, Interview With the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat, the book is by Linda Woolverton, and Robert Jess Roth directs." Lestat is set for a spring 2006 Broadway debut, while another Elton John musical, Billy Elliot, is set to start previews on London's West End on May 31.
Of course I want to see this, but I'm also a bit scared. I kind of liked the two movies based on Rice's vampire books, even Queen of the Damned. This can't be any worse that that, can it?
Elton John and Bernie Taupin's stage musical Lestat, based on the adventures of Anne Rice's pansexual vampire, will open in San Francisco this winter on its way to Broadway, reports Playbill.com. "Lestat, one of Anne Rice's most celebrated literary characters, is being brought to the stage in the first-ever collaboration of the legendary team of Elton John (music) and Bernie Taupin (lyrics) on a Broadway production," according to a statement from the Curran Theater, the venue for the San Francisco run. "Based on characters and incidents from Ms. Rice's best-selling novels, Interview With the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat, the book is by Linda Woolverton, and Robert Jess Roth directs." Lestat is set for a spring 2006 Broadway debut, while another Elton John musical, Billy Elliot, is set to start previews on London's West End on May 31.
Of course I want to see this, but I'm also a bit scared. I kind of liked the two movies based on Rice's vampire books, even Queen of the Damned. This can't be any worse that that, can it?
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Lestat
Date: 2005-04-04 03:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-04 03:36 pm (UTC)When does it open? I could talk Greg into a trip to see this, I think.
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Date: 2005-04-05 05:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-05 05:12 am (UTC)Yes. Yes it can.
This horrifies me. But it might be worth a laugh, ala Carrie: The Musical
And for the record, coming from a big-assed queer fan of hers, Lestat was her only celebrated character.