A Broadway Musical 229...
...VAMPIRES WHO SING.
Okay, so if you follow musical theatre any, you'll know that Elton John and Bernie Taupin have written a big, splashy Broadway musical based on the Lestat books by Anne Rice called... Lestat (no exclamation point at the end, sadly. Wouldn't it be fun to go and see ... Lestat! -- he sings!, he dances!, he vants to suck your blood!) It opens soon, and is one of the big musical entries this season.
This isn't the first attempt to make those bloodsuckers sing. A few seasons back, there was this musical gem:
DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES. That hairy fellow in the middle who looks like Teen Wolf in a drag contest is Michael Crawford.... yes, THAT Michael Crawford. This show closed really quick.
And Frank Wildhorn brought us Dracula, the musical!
Here's a scene from it. Doesn't it look... cheesy? Those three up there are clawing their way to an audition for a replacement role in MAMMA MIA!
Vampires belting bad pop opera... a definite 229.
posted by Cody Daigle at Monday, April 10, 2006
6 Comments:
Vampires don't only do Broadway ... they also do Vegas. When I was there last year, there was a show at the Straosphere called BITE (not sure if there was an exclamtion point) I didn't see it, but I bet it was horrible.
Now, when broadway decides that other mythological creepies deserve to sing, we'll be in trouble.
Mummies singing. Werewolves dancing.
Actually, there WAS a musical version of Frankenstein.
And there was the biggest singing monster of all... "Bea Arthur: Just Between Friends."
i guess it is my turn to get a blog..don't know what i would puit on it.
Well Broadway can always do the same thing that Hollywood is doing, stealing movies to turn into broadway musicals. The fun part is when the rest of the horror films take their turn on stage. Can you imagine all of the murder victims doing chorus number going up and down Elm St....Nightmare on Elm St., Feddy Sings!
Let me rephrase....Nightmare on Elm St., Freddy Sings!
Oh, and who can forget "Bat Boy! The Musical!". . .seriously!
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