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BBC News: Critics Lay Into Elton's Musical - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4941488.stm
Sir Elton John's vampire musical Lestat has had its Broadway premiere, but has been savaged by critics. Includes video clips from the show. |
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Hugh Panaro Signed for Title Role in Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures’ “Lestat” - http://www.timewarner.com/corp/newsroom/pr/0,20812,1098541,00.html
Article outlining the details of "Lestat", the inaugural production for the Broadway stage by Warner Brothers Theatre Ventures. |
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Playbill News: Lestat Cast Album to Be Released in July - http://www.playbill.com/news/article/99789.html
Lestat, the by songwriters Elton John and Bernie Taupin, will get a Broadway cast album, Warner Brothers Theatre Ventures' Gregg Maday announced. |
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Playbill News: Elton John Musical Lestat Will Take a Bite Out of San Francisco in Late 2005 - http://www.playbill.com/news/article/92038.html
Article features brief synopsis, discussion of the principals involved and the various adaptations of Anne Rice's vampire character. |
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Vampires, The Musical Kiss Of Death - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/25/AR2006042502251.html
Dear Broadway: I'm not sure how to put this, but, well, the fixation with singing vampires? It has to stop. I mean, give the bloodsucker a ballad, and it's his show that joins the walking dead. By Peter Marks. May require free registration. |
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BroadwayWorld.com: Lestat Cast to Head Into Recording Studios - http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=9786
Performers from Lestat will record a cast album at Mercury Records Studio on May 22, 2006. |
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Lestat: Die Young, Live Forever, Make Bad Musicals - http://chicago.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=9382
Lestat, based on Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles, is one of those unfortunate occurrences where a talented group of artists make fine contributions to material that is just too underwritten and dull to stand a chance. By Michael Dale. |
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USAToday.com: Vampire Musical 'Lestat,' Closing Saturday - http://www.usatoday.com/life/theater/news/2006-05-23-lestat-closing_x.htm
They're driving a stake through the heart of Lestat. The $10 million Elton John-Bernie Taupin musical inspired by Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles will close Sunday after a disappointing run of 39 performances. |
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New York Times: Lestat Review - http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/04/26/theater/reviews/26lest.html
Joining the ranks of Ambien, Lunesta, Sonata and other prescription lullaby drugs is "Lestat," a musical sleeping pill. |
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To Bite Or Not To Bite? Question Haunts Vampire in Lestat - http://www.canada.com/topics/entertainment/story.html?id=8e01e232-c5c5-4649-9a61-2a3c4a53fb79&k=36353
That seems to be the question haunting the troubled title character in Lestat, the morose new musical that opened Tuesday at Broadway's Palace Theatre. By Michael Kuchwara. |
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FT.com: Lestat, Palace Theatre, New York - http://news.ft.com/cms/s/9134e034-d483-11da-a357-0000779e2340.html
If Lestat is regrettably inconsistent as a standard entertainment, it retains a certain pop-cultural resonance. By Brendan Lemon. |
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ABC News: Critics Pour Scorn, Cliches on NY Vampire Musical - http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=1890203
The third vampire musical to try its luck on Broadway in four years drew all the familiar puns in scathing reviews. By Claudia Parsons. |
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Playbill News: Lestat Will Sing at Broadway's Palace Starting March 11, 2006 - http://www.playbill.com/news/article/95302.html
The musical finds a home on Broadway at the Palace Theatre. |
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The New Yorker: Vampires In Tights - http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/05/01/060501ta_talk_seabrook
After three years of writing, casting, and rehearsing, “Lestat” had a Christmastime tryout in San Francisco, where, by almost unanimous critical consensus, it was a disaster. |
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Variety.com: Reviews - Lestat - http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117930323?categoryid=33&cs=1
Die young. Live forever. At least half that tagline likely will prove prescient in describing the fate of Lestat on Broadway. |
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Did Lestat Make the Critics Swoon? - http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=528121
Lestat is one the season's most anticipated new shows. Did the critics find anything to sink their teeth into? By Broadway.com Staff. |
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Elton's Vampire Musical Sucks - http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/eltons-vampire-musical-sucks-critics/2006/04/27/1145861488362.html
Critics say Elton John's vampire musical was 'bloody awful,' 'sucked of life' and was the 'kiss of death'. By Claudia Parsons. |
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Lestat Takes Manhattan at Swanky Opening Night Celebration - http://www.broadway.com/Gen/Buzz_Photo_Op.aspx?ci=528135
Photo gallery offers 56 images from the opening night of 'Lestat' on Broadway. |
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Full Cast Announced for Upcoming Broadway Musical Lestat - http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=516880
Lestat, based on Anne Rice's vampire chronicles, tells the extraordinary journey of one man who escapes the tyranny of his oppressive family only to have his life taken from him. |
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Photo Flash: Lestat in Previews - http://westend.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=9051
Lestat, the inaugural production of Warner Brothers Theatre Ventures, is currently in previews at the Palace Theatre where it will open on Tuesday, April 25, 2006. |
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Broadway.com: Allison Fischer, Fresh Face - http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=527593
Feature interview with the young actress who plays the precocious and ferocious eternally 10-year-old vampire Claudia in Lestat. |
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ContraCostaTimes.com: The Melody of Immortality - http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/13370920.htm
"Lestat" is a sympathetic biography of the character introduced by Rice in "Interview." The story follows his life from the time he breaks away from an oppressive family, only to find himself trapped in the dark side and living with the horror of being an immortal. |
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Lestat Lines Up Events in New York, Including Benefit - http://dc.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=8744
With the opening of Lestat, a multitude of events will be held all around Manhattan throughout the month of April, 2006. |
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BroadwayWorld.com: Photo Flash: Lestat, Set for Broadway Previews - http://boston.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=8224
Elton John and Bernie Taupin's vampire musical Lestat, based on books by Anne Rice, is now set to begin Broadway previews on March 25th. Includes photos. |
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Taking the First Bite - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/18/PKGQ1G4VV41.DTL&feed=rss.entertainment
Freelance writer Ron Dicker offers his opinion on the vampire musical "Lestat", the creative team behind it and its chances for success. |