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• Theage.com.au: Elton's Vampire Musical Seeks New Blood The play cancels its first two weeks of preview performances in New York as it looks to restructure the production after receiving poor off-Broadway reviews. Includes photo.
• The Vampire Lestat has Settled in San Francisco. And He's Singing in a New Musical. Quick! Someone Fetch the Garlic and a Wooden Stake! San Francisco Chronicle theater critic Robert Hurwitt analyses the many problems he sees in Elton John and Bernie Taupin's latest musical.
• BroadwayWorld.com: Photo Flash: Pre-Broadway Engagement of Lestat Offers publicity photos from the pre-Broadway tryout production of "Lestat".
• Taking the First Bite Freelance writer Ron Dicker offers his opinion on the vampire musical "Lestat", the creative team behind it and its chances for success.
• BroadwayWorld.com: Photo Flash: Cast Announced for Lestat, Show to Tryout in San Francisco in December An article offering biographies on the creative team for the musical.
• BroadwayWorld.com: Photo Flash: Lestat, Set for Broadway Previews 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.
• Lestat Lines Up Events in New York, Including Benefit With the opening of Lestat, a multitude of events will be held all around Manhattan throughout the month of April, 2006.
• Photo Flash: Lestat in Previews 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.
• Elton's Vampire Musical Sucks Critics say Elton John's vampire musical was 'bloody awful,' 'sucked of life' and was the 'kiss of death'. By Claudia Parsons.
• Photo Coverage: Opening Night of Lestat Lestat, the Elton John-Bernie Taupin musical based upon Anne Rice's The Vampires Chronicles, opened on April 25th.
• New York Times: Lestat Review Joining the ranks of Ambien, Lunesta, Sonata and other prescription lullaby drugs is "Lestat," a musical sleeping pill.
• BroadwayWorld.com: Lestat Cast to Head Into Recording Studios Performers from Lestat will record a cast album at Mercury Records Studio on May 22, 2006.
• Lestat: Die Young, Live Forever, Make Bad Musicals 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.
• BBC News: Critics Lay Into Elton's Musical Sir Elton John's vampire musical Lestat has had its Broadway premiere, but has been savaged by critics. Includes video clips from the show.
• Vampires, The Musical Kiss Of Death 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.
• USA Today.com: Lestat Proves Syrup Is Thicker Than Blood There's no love like a mother's love, especially if your mom happens to be a vampire. By Elysa Gardner.
• Photo Coverage: 'Lestat' Cast in the Studio The cast of Lestat recorded their original Broadway cast album at Sony Studios. Based on Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles, Lestat is the first theatrical score from the songwriting team of Elton John and Bernie Taupin.
• USAToday.com: Vampire Musical 'Lestat,' Closing Saturday 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.
• FT.com: Lestat, Palace Theatre, New York If Lestat is regrettably inconsistent as a standard entertainment, it retains a certain pop-cultural resonance. By Brendan Lemon.
• The New Yorker: Vampires In Tights 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.