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|  The third vampire musical to try its luck on Broadway in four years drew all the familiar puns in scathing reviews Thursday that said Lestat was "bloody awful," "sucked of life" and the "kiss of death."
Lestat is Warner Bros.' first attempt to challenge Disney's dominance of the mass-market musical genre.
Based on Anne Rice's vampire novels, the show features songs by Elton John and his writing partner, Bernie Taupin.
Expectations had been low after a critically savaged trial run in San Francisco. History was also against Lestat after the failure of two previous vampire musicals, Dance of the Vampires in 2002 and Dracula, the Musical in 2004.
In a review headlined "Vampires, the musical kiss of death," The Washington Post's Peter Marks said the fixation with singing vampires had to stop.
"Give the bloodsucker a ballad, and it's his show that joins the walking dead," he wrote.
The plot, from Rice's Vampire Chronicles books, follows the 18th century Frenchman Lestat, who is bitten by a vampire after slaughtering a pack of wolves. The books were made into a hit film starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in 1994. |
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