[AndrewG]

I'm not ridiculing the project (how could I, I've not seen it?), just the people who claim to have (family) links to the project feeding false lies time and time again, which they claim are promises of things to come, this has been going on for 6 years. If people believe it will still happen that is fine by me but don't go telling everyone horse shit such as Steinman and co are trying to find a venue when they are not etc. Who put out the evening standard ad? It could have been a rich fan without links to Steinman for all we know, even so it is quite a few years ago now. The only thing Steinman has written since his ideas about such a project back in 2006 are some things about politicians he disagrees with. There is no need to be secretive about a project like this. Not to the extent that some people claim they have been. In my own personal opinion I believe Steinman has retired. To me it makes no sense to try to revive a Bat out of Hell concept musical when Warner Brothers couldn't even see a justification in a proper Batman one, which surely is always going to gain more interest, certainly with the new Christopher Nolan movies around. I do not believe the Bat out of Hell "franchise" is worth $50 million. It simply does not have that kind of appeal. Even "Dance of the Vampires" needs to resort to... yes vampires to gain interest. The best chance would have been to revive a Batman musical in the mid 2000s in my opinion. It seems like a more interesting project to me and already had new songs.
I definitely think Bat out of Hell has lost a lot of mass appeal in the last decade or so and I doubt even Meat Loaf could help to change that to the extent to allow for Steinman to get funding for his ideas, as great as they may be. Not even all the hard core Meat Loaf fans around the world could make the show profitable I believe, and then you are talking about a show, at a fixed venue, in one city with 8 performances per week at at least £50 per ticket, 1000 seats to fill, having to run for around 18 months at least to gain some sort of profit. Hmmm. It may sound extremely negative but I feel I am being realistic. Sorry.

Perhaps if he teamed up with Andrew Lloyd Webber again and named it something like The Dark Peter Pan. I feel it would require recycling of a more popular/current brand rather than the recycling of songs really.