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The Lost Boys: The Musical

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‘The Lost Boys’ Musical Announces Broadway Cast, Sets Opening Date

The Broadway world premiere of the musical The Lost Boys has set an April 26, 2026, opening date and a principal cast.
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The new musical, based on the 1987 Warner Bros. Pictures film, features a story by James Jeremias & Janice Roberta Fischer, direction by two-time Tony Award winner Michael Arden (Parade, Maybe Happy Ending), a book by David Hornsby (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia writer/EP) & Chris Hoch, music & lyrics by The Rescues.

The 1987 horror-comedy, directed by Joel Schumacher and produced by Richard Donner, follows two teenage brothers who move with their divorced mother to the fictional town of Santa Carla, California, only to discover that the town is a haven for vampires.
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Yes, folks ... it's based on THOSE Lost Boys.
 
Seriously though, not everything needs a reboot or especially a musical adaptation. Back to the Future is an example of a movie that CAN work as a musical; it's very comic and its fish-out-of-water shenanigans can translate well to stage in both physical performance and songwriting. But The Lost Boys? No way, Jose. The Lost Boys is deliberately silly, sure. But it's not something that can work on the stage.

P.S. Yes, The Evil Dead also had a musical, but that movie could also work on stage with the right crew, which it did. I saw clips of performances online and it genuinely looks like some fun, adults only toe-tapping ultraviolence.
 
I don't really see why The Lost Boys is especially ill suited for a musical.

Phantom of the Opera, King Kong, Re-Animator, An Officer and a Gentleman...all sorts of movies get musicalized.

The Lost Boys is a very stylized movie, with all sorts of intentional OTT-ness that could lend itself to the stage.

I can totally see it. Even if I won't actually see it. ;)
 
Tosk said:
I don't really see why The Lost Boys is especially ill suited for a musical.

Phantom of the Opera, King Kong, Re-Animator, An Officer and a Gentleman...all sorts of movies get musicalized.

The Lost Boys is a very stylized movie, with all sorts of intentional OTT-ness that could lend itself to the stage.

I can totally see it. Even if I won't actually see it. ;)
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And unfortunately, some of them just suck. The trick with good musical adaptations is to know what to adapt and how to make it work in the new format, not unlike TV or video game or book adaptations.
 
Tosk said:
I don't really see why The Lost Boys is especially ill suited for a musical.

Phantom of the Opera, King Kong, Re-Animator, An Officer and a Gentleman...all sorts of movies get musicalized.

The Lost Boys is a very stylized movie, with all sorts of intentional OTT-ness that could lend itself to the stage.

I can totally see it. Even if I won't actually see it. ;)
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Neb Lleb said:
And unfortunately, some of them just suck. The trick with good musical adaptations is to know what to adapt and how to make it work in the new format, not unlike TV or video game or book adaptations.
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On the other hand, history suggests some of the most seemingly unlikely notions can spawn hit musicals. I mean, who could have predicted that you could make a hit out of . . .

A rap musical about Alexander Hamilton?

The dead wife of an Argentinian dictator?

A cult horror movie about a man-eating plant?

A book of whimsical poems about cats?

A homicidal barber whose victims are baked into meat pies?

The secret origin of the Wicked Witch of the West?

At this point, I'm reluctant to call out any premise, let alone The Lost Boys, as being obviously unsuited to working as a musical.
 
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