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...which a tween-age vampire cries for ?More?) sounds instinguishable from Broadway's usual power-pop Muzak? Lestat is a predictable bore, sometimes a laughable one. Only redeeming feature: it prompts some retrospective kind thoughts for two previous vampire musicals - Jim Steinman's Dance of the Vampires and Frank Wildhorn's Dracula, both of which had more going for them...
...CIVIL WAR Composer Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde) musicalizes the epic struggle in a show making its debut this month in Houston...
...going for it in a big way. Wildhorn's next project is The Civil War, a "dramatic emotional tapestry" for which he has set to music letters, diaries and other documents from the war. It will be released, as usual, first as an album (performed by artists ranging from Trisha Yearwood to Hootie & the Blowfish), then as a TV special, and finally a stage show. After that: Havana, a "musical comedy noir" set in the 1940s; a musical version of Alice in Wonderland; and Svengali, the second (after Jekyll) in what he envisions as a gothic trilogy...
...affable New Yorker whose Jewish family lived in Harlem, the Bronx and Queens before moving to Florida when he was a teenager, Wildhorn, 39, didn't discover music until he was 15, when he started noodling on the family organ in between football practices. While a student at the University of Southern California, he started writing Jekyll & Hyde with a classmate; an album of songs from the show was released in 1990, and shortly thereafter it was staged at Houston's Alley Theatre. The musical then sat unproduced for several years while its songs worked their way into...
Pimpernel followed a similar course, with a concept album and a Top 40 single (You Are My Home) before reaching the stage. Wildhorn gets positively woozy about the way his music affects audiences: aids patients write to thank him for the inspiration they get from A New Life, a song from Jekyll & Hyde. And as for those critics? Friends send him copies of early bad reviews of Puccini and Verdi operas to make him feel better. "There's a tendency to get bitter and cynical, but I'm not going to do that," he says. "I've got too much...