'True Blood' Musical: A Sucky or Fangtastic Idea?

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'True Blood' Musical: A Sucky or Fangtastic Idea?
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HBO's True Blood TV ****** meets its true death when the seventh and final season wraps up in August, but Sookie Stackhouse and the Bon Temps gang may be revived for a musical.

The show's composer Nathan Barr has pitched True Blood: The Musical to the powers that be at HBO, with help from True Blood star Stephen Moyer, who last year starred and sang (http://mashable.com/2013/12/09/sound-of-music-live-recap-social-ratings-nbc/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) in NBC's live musical spectacle of The Sound of Music.

See also: Gruesome 'True Blood' Trailer Will Suck You Into the Final Season (http://mashable.com/2014/05/19/true-blood-season-7-full-trailer/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


Barr and Boyer presented musical samples to HBO and True Blood creator Alan Ball, the Associated Press reports (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/true-blood-headed-musical-afterlife), and Barr plans to finish a workshop version of it in 2015. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/18/true-blood-musical-broadway-hbo/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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