Lestat
Shows · Lestat
In 18th-century France, dissolute young nobleman Lestat de Lioncourt is transformed into a vampire by the ancient Magnus. Gifted with immortality but cursed with an insatiable thirst for blood, Lestat journeys through centuries — from revolutionary Paris to the modern world — seeking companionship and meaning. He creates a vampire daughter, Claudia, with fellow vampire Louis, but their dark family unravels as Claudia…
- Opened
- 2006
- Performances
- 39
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Modern
Productions1 on Broadway
| 2006 | Palace Theatre Original. April 25, 2006 · Robert Jess Roth | 39 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 3 albums held
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9 passages naming Lestat, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Lestat (2006), based on the Anne Rice vampire novels, was a failure. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p206
Lestat (2006; 39 performances). book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p98
He also created the title role of Lestat in 2006, a five-week flame-out and one of three disastrous musicals about vampires that opened on Broadway during the early years of the new century. book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p405
Only Lestat failed to connect with critics and audiences. book:cambridge-companion-to-the-musical-cambridge-companions-to-music-the-the-cambrid#p379
It's Not Easy Being Green (Shows in which significant characters were, at some point, green): Wicked, Seascape, Avenue Q, Tarzan and The Pillowman. Also: The Wedding Singer had a song titled “All About the Green.” The Colors of My Life: The Color Purple, Woman in White. Also: Ring of Fire contained a song “The Man in B… book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-june-1-2005-may-31-2006-viagas-robert-second-annu#p13
The benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS was a sold-out celebration of theater and cabaret crooners singing everything from Loesser to Lestat. book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-third-annual-edition-viagas-robert-3rd-annual-ed-#p465
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