Joss Whedon proved that viewers love to hear their favorite vampires sing with his fan-favorite musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer entitled “Once More, With Feeling” in 2001, and now another fang-filled drama will attempt to replicate Whedon’s success. According to composer Nathan Barr, who has written the instrumental scores for all seven seasons of True Blood, a musical version of the hit HBO show may be coming soon.

“The story lends itself to a musical,” Barr told E! Online. “The challenge for us is the minute I thought about ‘True Blood: The Musical,’ I myself could kind of groan. I can see the bad version of that. It’s really a matter of finding a way of sort of reinventing it.”

Barr hopes that his musical will “return to the roots” of the popular vampire drama. Fans will surely be happy to hear that they may get another way to get their True Blood fix, since the show’s seventh and final season starts Jun. 22. Barr states that his biggest struggle in creating the musical has been trying to trim down the epic show into one focused production.

Barr stated that True Blood co-star Stephen Moyer helped him put together some samples of the True Blood musical, and he intends on presenting a workshop version to HBO about a year from now. The composer has not revealed if any of the cast will be involved in the musical, but Moyer proved that he’s capable of being the leading man in a musical last year on NBC’s highly rated live telecast of The Sound of Music, and seems likely to reprise his role as vampire Bill Compton.

Whether or not the musical will ever really happen is still up in the air, but Barr remains optimistic.

“We’re pitching it; it’s not a guaranteed thing,” said Barr. “I have the rights. HBO doesn’t have to like it, but hopefully they will, and they’ll give us the shot to make it and bring it to Broadway.”

“There’s no guarantees. But I think the direction we’re heading in is really exciting.”