The run closed May 28, 2006
- Opened
- April 25, 2006
- Closed
- May 28, 2006
- Performances
- 39
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Palace Theatre
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 325th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
This is a New York theatre. The address is Manhattan and the former names are Broadway names, but the record is filed as West End and its coordinates, architect and history were taken from the London theatre of the same name. Every one of these names exists on both streets. Reported to broadway-data as issue #97.
Who was in it17 named
Michael Genet
Roderick Hill
Joseph Dellger
Colleen Fitzpatrick
Patrick Mellen
Chris Peluso
Dominique Plaisant
Megan Reinking
Tommar Wilson
8 of these 17 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 9 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters7 roles recorded
Hugh Panaro Lestat
Carolee Carmello Gabrielle
Allison Fischer Claudia
Roderick Hill Nicolas
Jack Noseworthy Sarich took over the part permanently and later made his Broadway debut as Armand. Armand
Jim Stanek Louis
Michael Genet Marius
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Robert Jess Roth
- Choreographer
- Matt West
- Orchestrations
- Steve Margoshes
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Recordings 3 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Lestat, and nothing in the record says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
Around this production
Lestat is a Broadway musical inspired by Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles. The score is by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, with the book by Linda Woolverton. The musical had a brief run on Broadway in 2006.
Memorable Press Encounter: Opening night for Lestat! There is nothing like walking down the red carpet, getting your pictures taken, and being interviewed! The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 1 2005 May 31 2006 Viagas Robert Second Annu, p. 226
- Lestat (2006), based on the Anne Rice vampire novels, was a failure. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 206
- Lestat (2006; 39 performances). The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 98
- 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. The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 405
- Only Lestat failed to connect with critics and audiences. Cambridge Companion To the Musical Cambridge Companions To Music the the Cambrid, p. 379
- 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… The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 1 2005 May 31 2006 Viagas Robert Second Annu, p. 13
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- Which of the 3 recordings of Lestat document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.