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Lestat Sulks Off The Stage

It's being reported today (for example, here from the BBC) that the tremendously expensive, and critically ravaged, musical Lestat, by Elton John based on Anne Rice's vampire novels, will close on Sunday after only 39 performances.

That, my friends, is what we call a mega-flop. And, being the third recent vampire Broadway mega-flop, I think it (snicker) nails the lid on the coffin for this particular genre of musical theater.

Posted by Andy Wheeler on May 24, 2006 11:11 AM |

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Lestat should be made into an opera rather than a musical. Or a serious drama.

Posted by: Robert S. Robbins | July 7, 2006 10:43 AM

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