Line #41 Theatre/Lestat


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5	A musical scored by Music/EltonJohn and Bernie Taupin, which had a successful run in San Francisco but closed after only a month on Broadway, Lestat is an adaptation of Creator/AnneRice's ''Literature/TheVampireChronicles''.
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7	The story follows Lestat de Lioncourt, a nobleman who's unappreciated by his family and makes his entrance after killing eight wolves singlehandedly. His father and brother scorn him, and he finally lets his dying mother convince him to go to Paris. Upon his arrival, he meets an old friend named Nicolas, steps out to get some air one night... and gets himself turned into a vampire.
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9	Eventually, he reveals to his mother what he has become, and to his shock she asks him to turn her to save her from her illness. He agrees, and the two of them make their way to Paris again where they encounter the Theatre des Vampires. Lestat turns a willing Nicolas, becomes catatonic due to the transformation. So Lestat and his mother Gabrielle start off to find the one vampire who might be able to cure him, Marius. Lestat finds him, [[spoiler: after Gabrielle has deserted him and Nicolas has died,]] and departs for the New World to reinvent himself. There he meets Louis and Claudia, two people who are about to teach him the meaning of the word 'unpredictable'...
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11	As an official cast recording isn't released yet, the best place to hear the music is at the [[http://www.freewebs.com/lestatmusical/ Lestat Download Center]].
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13	!!This Work Contains Examples Of:
14	* AdaptationDistillation: For an adaptation of two books and one FilmOfTheBook, it's not half bad.
15	* AngryMobSong: "Kill Your Own Kind", although Armand is the only one singing most of the time- the rest of the Theatre des Vampires only joins in during the chorus.
16	* BadassAdorable: Claudia.
17	* TheBigDamnKiss: Unusual example at the end of "After All This Time"; Armand and Lestat kiss for damn near a minute before Armand starts to make his exit, but they hate each other and it's an attempt to assert dominance on Armand's part.
18	* CrowdSong: "In Paris", Welcome to the New World"
19	* DarkReprise: "Embrace It" and "Right Before My Eyes".
20	* DeliberatelyCuteChild: Claudia
21	* DrowningMySorrows: How Louis and Lestat meet.
22	* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Louis, and to some degree Armand, whose hair is a dark enough red here to invoke this image.
23	* ElegantGothicLolita: Claudia's costuming resembles it somewhat.
24	* EnfantTerrible: Claudia and the teenage Armand.
25	* EpicInstrumentalOpener
26	* EpicRocking: "From The Dead", "The Thirst"
27	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When Lestat agrees to turn his mother, when Claudia almost compulsively kills the hired help.
28	* GreyAndGreyMorality
29	* GriefSong: "Sail Me Away", and the [[DarkReprise reprise]] of "Right Before My Eyes".
30	* HeroicBSOD: Lestat gets one when [[spoiler: Nicolas dies]].
31	* IAmSong: Claudia's "I Want More", despite the title, is more this.
32	* IWantSong: Claudia's second song, "I'll Never Have That Chance".
33	** A darker version is "The Thirst", which is about the animalistic need for blood that Lestat discovers.
34	* ImAHumanitarian
35	* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Lestat and Louis. Claudia even compares them to "two fussy mothers" when they chastise her for her dining habits.
36	* MelismaticVocals: All over the place, but especially impressive in Claudia's "I Want More".
37	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Pretty traditional reaction among vampires who have just made their first kill.
38	* OlderThanTheyLook
39	* RageAgainstTheHeavens: "How can this be? This devil leaves/And God abandons me..."
40	* TearsOfBlood: Lestat can tell when Claudia's not really crying because she doesn't weep blood.
41	* TenorBoy: Averted by Armand, whose beautiful tenor vocals contrast sharply with his personality and the lyrics of his songs.
42	* TheBigEasy: Most of the second half takes place here.
43	* TimeSkip: Between Lestat's conversation with Marius and his arrival in Louisiana.
44	* VictorianNovelDisease: Gabrielle is dying of this.
45	* VillainSong: "To Kill Your Kind" and "After All This Time", both sung by Armand. The former has him ordering Claudia's execution, and the latter has him gleefully boasting about said execution, which was his revenge against Lestat.
46	* WelcomingSong: "In Paris" in the first act, and "Welcome to the New World" in the second.
47	* YourVampiresSuck: The characters make fun of a book that resembles Dracula for its unrealistic depiction of vampire powers.

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