#i dont really think that vampire chronicals has any adaptation thats a good adaptation while also being good just as a thing

[estrangedandwayward]

God it's so sad that lestat the musical suck because vampire chronicals would work SO well as a musical. The melodrama, dances and songs to show the bonds between the characters, it doesn't matter if the actors look like the characters or not, you can actually do Claudia and Armand, which visual mediums generally can't, the costumes can be gorgeously tacky but change in subtle ways so show the passage of time (like everyone keeps the same base costume but changes hats and coats), you can give lestat and Nicky a big golden moment number, the theater de vampire's would be CRAZY, you can have lestat play the piano (maybe that's a way to do the narrating), it's longer so you can include more than a movie, Louis could be a great narrator too, you can have in-between scenes of back and forth between him and Daniel, louis can have a melancholy walking in the rain but isnt new orleans so beautiful song, and you can give lestat and Louis a dance number, Maybe with singing, maybe not, that shows their relationship through the years, the two of them pulling eachother around the stage, sometimes switching hats and coats, lestat can swing his walking stick around, Claudia can come in to join them half way through, they should totally recreate that hand holding spin from the show that the three of them do cause it would be Adorable, the music and style of dance can change, they go between passionate, violent, playful, confrontational and everything in between beautifully capturing the complex violently domestic relationship between these two compelling, emotional characters. Too bad Lestat: The musical genuinely sucks.