And on the topic of vampire musicals...

[winter]

Lestat is closing this Sunday

With 39 "official" performances, I believe it did even worse than Crawford's version of Dance of the Vampires. Considering Elton John's comments about a new kind of vampire musical with "no garlic, no crosses, absolutely no dancing vampires", I can't help but chuckle a little. Like von Krolock in my icon.

I pity the cast, though. They assembled such a lot of talented people, it's not their fault the music was trite...

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[fyrie.livejournal.com]

VK Senior actually did adore his wife, because she did all the stuff he couldn't be bothered with, but she was still a formidable force to be reckoned with. Johannes was their second child of five. Two died in infancy and the other two survivors were the girls, who were married off when they came of age, because what else are moderately-pretty and well-dowried young women for?

(Also, hee! Littlest sibling is drying the dishes and loudly singing Wenn Liebe :D)

[winter]

*blinks* You know, my VK is being very close-mouthed on the subject of siblings. I think there may have been a disowned younger brother.

(With or without knowing what it's about? :P)

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

VK says he wasn't close to them, really. He was a boy and thus, he wasn't expected to spend much time with them. The younger one, he got along with reasonably well, when mother wasn't looking, then he was sent off to school (a fair gap between those two - she was the last kid) and by the time he came back, she was about to get married off.

(Oh, he knows. And he still maintains if he could meet any Tanz character, it would be Herbert. Oh yes, my brother is extremely heterosexual. Very much so)

[winter]

So your VK hasn't travelled at all except to school? Or at some point between vampirisation and present-day?

(Straigh-boy crushes are so cute :P)

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

Oh, he travelled, but he visited him after studying, then mum announced she had some eligible girls to meet him and he went "Er..." at which point dad amiably patted him on the shoulder and said "run while you still can. I'll divert the dragon" and VK, half-grinning at dad, snuck out the house and went exploring all over Europe, taking some his dad's maps and contact details ;)

[winter]

Better strategy than my VK, then ;) He just didn't bother coming home after his studies in Vienna were done with, especially since I think his mother was dead by then.

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

I think baby-sister sent him a letter, begging him to come to her wedding, so she could cling on him and try and escape (Mum wanted her married off even younger, before the unfortunate bachelor got away). Turns out that after she met the guy, she was quite taken with him, though, so it turned out well enough.

[winter]

More soap opera than my Gothic melodrama, then ;) I swear, half the time my VK's living in a Gothic romance.

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

*g* This is why it will never be written ;)

[winter]

That's what I keep telling my VK about his Tragic Childhood (TM) ;)

(And for the record, I don't think he really got locked up in a tower. He's a drama whore. If he had an LJ, he'd be on Fandom_Wank every 12 hours.)

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

*snickers* And, of course, he would be one of those emo-kids who denies being emo, becuase their pain is like totally so real ;D

[winter]

And half the flamewars would be about the artistic merit of his angsty poetry. Not to mention the fact that he'd be lucky no-one could tell who the pretty blond plastered all over his LJ layout is ;)

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

There's a crack-fic for you - VK discovers the joy of LJ :P

[winter]

You do know I'd have to set it in your universe? :P

(I'm stuck on screenname though. And Herbert's.)

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

*GRINS!* Do so! I shall squee :D

VK's would be something pretentiously artsy and symbolic that no one would understand. Herbert would go for directness, although he's indignant that hotass is taken :D

[winter]

My Herbert's turn to giggle about certain people's maturity, I think ;)

Goldenhaar for Herbert, I think. VK... meerderzeit?

(And testing names just now, I can't believe there's no user darkgrail on LJ. I'm about to grab that name just because it's so spiffy.)

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

Herbert's making faces here and says it was a joke ;) I'm not convinced.

(And ohh! Darkgrail is very pretty!)

[winter]

*eyedart*

I think I'll grab darkgrail. Just in case I ever play VK in an rpg of any sort ;)

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

*g* I could play my Herbert against your VK, just for the fun of it.

[winter]

*eyedart apiat'* Once I have a bit of time... :>

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

*grins* Likewise on this end :) Not like I have an abundance of the stuff myself.

[winter]

We might need a setting. A setup. And hell, I've only ever done straight-out comment, *actions in asterisks* drama-ho RP myself.

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

Ouch! The asterisk stuff would kill me. Prose is the best way to go :)

[winter]

With me channelling my VK? I'm wondering if my thesaurus would take the strain...

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

*grins* I could never manage that asteriskified way. When I first started RPG-ing, everyone seemed to play that way, but as players drifted away, we went into proper blocks of text and in past tense, which was so much easier.