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Broadway review: The Lost Boys, a musical that goes for blood
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Review | ‘The Lost Boys’ proves the vampire musical curse is alive and well
When I was in college, three vampire musicals crashed and burned on Broadway in quick succession: “Dance of the Vampires,” “Dracula,” and “Lestat.” Each had something going for it, whether it was gothic atmosphere, pop appeal, or the occasional strong song, but none quite worked.
Instead, here comes “The Lost Boys,” a musical adaptation of the 1987 teen vampire film, now at the Palace Theatre, where “Lestat” opened exactly 20 years ago. If anything, “The Lost Boys” is worse than all of them. It arrives at the tail end of what may be the weakest season for new musicals in decades, and any hope that it might redeem the season quickly disappears.
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‘The Lost Boys’ Has Too Much of Everything, and That’s Okay
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How big a Get Out of Jail Free card does a movie-to-musical adaptation claim for itself when one of its characters — a video store owner who prefers the “the black and white classic” Little Shop of Horrors — says, “Turning a movie into a musical reeks of desperation.”
If that musical is The Lost Boys, pretty big. Desperate or not, what the show does reek of is money (apparently about $25 million). I imagine it’s tough to keep a sense of humor with so much cash on the line, but it’s ultimately a dedication to camp that helps this new megamusical take flight (that and a whole bunch of wires). In comparable territory, The Outsiders keeps things earnest, and even Stranger Things, for all its loopiness, plays its baby-monster antihero story tragic and straight. Here, the creative team — book writers David Hornsby and Chris Hoch, the Rescues on music and lyrics, and director Michael Arden — hasn’t forgotten that what they’re adapting is a Joel Schumacher film. This is the guy who also brought us the worst (maybe secretly best?) Batman movie, working from a script that put Peter Pan, Anne Rice, glam rock, and The Goonies into a blender and pressed purée. We shouldn’t just be gasping; we should absolutely be giggling, too.
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