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Since people seem to be interested in comparisons:

Did They Like It

LOST BOYS

7 positive

8 mixed

1 negative

TWO STRANGERS

6 positive

5 mixed

2 negative

SCHMIGADOON

11 positive 

4 mixed

1 negative

TITANIQUE

9 positive

6 mixed

2 negative

Fewer than two points separate the top four new musicals in BWW's scoring, another sign of just how close this year's Tony race is.

CoffeeBreak said: "AM NEW YORK https://www.amny.com/news/review-musical-adaptation-of-the-lost-boys/"

Copying and pasting almost an entire review to rob the outlet of the click instead of leaving it to the reader to click through to the full review is a sh***y thing to do.

Culture Sauce

Four out of five stars

‘The Lost Boys’ is a muscial sensation with high stakes in the heart (Broadway review)

https://culturesauce.com/2026/04/26/the-lost-boys-broadway-review/

"Despite the long odds, The Lost Boys may be the most spectacular surprise of the Broadway season — a visually captivating and technically astounding show that actually improves on its source material with more fleshed-out characters, a more coherent plot, and a hook-filled rock score that deepens our connection to both the players and their plight. Who knew that a glorified B movie best remembered as a breakout for Gen X stars like Sutherland and Jason Patric could inspire a stage musical with this much energy and heart? It’s enough to drive a stake into cynical naysayers everywhere."

People

The Lost Boys Finds New Life as a Cinematic Broadway Spectacle That Thrills but Never Quite Sinks Its Teeth In

An adaptation of the 1987 vampire cult favorite, the stage show delivers the feeling of a blockbuster more successfully than the substance of a great musical

https://people.com/the-lost-boys-broadway-review-11958855

"That may be the central contradiction of The Lost Boys. It is frequently fun. It is consistently showy. It offers audiences a glossy, high-voltage night at the theater. But for all its smoke, style and sensory dazzle, the show never quite finds the pulse beneath the polish."

B+ from Entertainment Weekly

The Lost Boys musical review: Singing vampires take a bite out of Broadway

The stage adaptation stakes its claim on the Great White Way.

https://ew.com/the-lost-boys-musical-review-singing-vampires-bite-into-broadway-11958889

"The Lost Boys is a big and bold production marrying technical enchantment with a talented cast of vocal heavyweights. Even if a few elements of this vampire love story remain a bit undercooked, it's definitely worth sinking your teeth into."

Slant

‘The Lost Boys’ Review: Broadway’s Latest Vampire Musical Actually Takes Flight

This musical is more visually jaw-dropping and effortlessly cool than it has any right to be.

https://www.slantmagazine.com/theater/the-lost-boys-broadway-review/

"For director Michael Arden’s last hit, Maybe Happy Ending, he had the advantage of building a stunning staging out of a dramatically driven score and pitch-perfect book. The Lost Boys offers neither, though the songs (by the band the Rescues) and the script (by actors Chris Hoch and David Hornsby) are faithful to the film’s spooky-kooky, intensely ’80s vibes.

As he proved in his musically precise staging of Parade, Arden’s greatest gift as a musical theater director is rhythmic. Each vampiric liftoff, fanged nosedive toward an unsuspecting neck, and unearthly lighting effect (by Arden and Jen Schriever) is so pinpointedly timed with the music that the rock anthems seem to spill out of the show’s visuals."

Deadline

‘The Lost Boys’ Broadway Review: A Film-To-Stage Adaptation That Doesn’t Suck

https://deadline.com/2026/04/lost-boys-broadway-review-1236870020/

"Like Stranger Things: The First Shadow playing a midtown-block away, the creative team behind The Lost Boys musical, along with a terrific cast, seem to have figured out how, exactly, to adapt the horror genre to the stage, and, yes, it has much to do with advances in stage craft and tech, from the jump-scare-friendly improvements in sound design (the better for those loud thunder-like cracks) to special effects (the aerial stunts that bedeviled Angels in America rehearsals back in the early ’90s seem more than a bit quaint compared to all the soaring these vampires do)."

Variety: Critic's Pick

‘The Lost Boys’ Broadway Review: Musical Adaptation of ‘80s Teen Vampire Flick is Rich in Imagination, Filled With Spectacular Effects

https://variety.com/2026/legit/reviews/lost-boys-broadway-review-musical-teen-vampire-movie-spectacular-effects-1236730779/

"Because of the size and scale of the musical production (reportedly in the $25 million-plus range), the show nixed an out-of-town run. While “The Lost Boys” could have benefitted from more work — particularly in the troublesome second act — the production should still satisfy longtime fans and be an attractive sell for a younger market."

Theatrely

THE LOST BOYS Is One Bloody Good Time — Review

https://www.theatrely.com/post/the-lost-boys-is-one-bloody-good-time-review

"The musical channels the 80s maximalism of the movie in Dane Laffrey’s elaborate, towering sets and Jen Schriever’s gorgeous, cinematic lighting design. (Arden also gets credit for lighting.) Just when you think there isn’t room for another location, another one rolls in. This production has to have the record for most motorcycles on stage. Those elements, along with Markus Maurette’s special effects, could be considered worth the price of admission.

Where this grand spectacle starts to unravel is in the music. The Rescues’ cliche-ridden lyrics fail to interestingly explore the emotions of the characters while only intermittently moving the plot along. There are a few standouts among a parade of songs I can’t remember. "

Vulture: Holdren is mostly positive

‘The Lost Boys’ Has Too Much of Everything, and That’s Okay

https://www.vulture.com/article/theater-review-lost-boys-broadway-musical.html

"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.

At the no-holds-barred spectacle at the Palace, we get to do plenty of both. The behemoth isn’t perfect, and it doesn’t need to be two hours and 40 minutes long. These movie-musical stage shows are undergoing their own form of MCU runtime creep, and the majority of the bloat comes from unnecessary repetition. Too many reprises, too many restatements of theme — trust me, by the time The Lost Boys is wrapping up, we definitely get that it’s about family. But there’s also a whole lot happening in it that’s delightful."

Theatermania

Review: The Lost Boys Breaks the Curse of the Vampire Musical on Broadway

Michael Arden directs a sharp-toothed production full of nostalgia and chills at the Palace Theatre.

https://www.theatermania.com/news/review-the-lost-boys-breaks-the-curse-of-the-vampire-musical-on-broadway_1834562/

"I’m happy to let fellow fans of the film know that Sax Guy (Cameron Loyal) makes more than one slick appearance in director Michael Arden’s heart-pounding, gasp-inducing world premiere of The Lost Boys, now running at the Palace Theatre. It’s the best new musical on Broadway."

NYT 

Shaw is mixed. Not a Critic's Pick

‘The Lost Boys’ Review: Live, Die, Reprise

A Broadway musical adaptation of the 1987 movie gets a lot of mileage from ’80s rocker aesthetics and over-the-top spectacle — until its second half.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/theater/the-lost-boys-review.html

"When the musical version of “The Lost Boys,” written by David Hornsby and Chris Hoch, with score and lyrics by the Rescues, nails its combination of goofiness and grandeur, we can thank its two unkillable ancestors. For this Broadway production at the Palace, the director Michael Arden borrows from a thousand “Peter Pan” performances in order to thrill us with onstage flight — Lauren Yalango-Grant and Christopher Cree Grant did the stunning aerial choreography — and embraces the ’80s rocker-romantic aesthetics that made Schumacher’s movie so bloody delicious.

Still, the relationship with the film proves tricky. The anticipatory part of horror, it turns out, transfers nicely to the stage — Arden and his frequent collaborator, the set designer Dane Laffrey, are masters of atmosphere. But translating the thriller aspect is harder, and “The Lost Boys” loses its way as it tries, unwisely, to map itself onto the film’s action-packed second half."

The Wrap

‘The Lost Boys’ Broadway Review: Or, Why Frank-N-Furter Gets the Last Laugh

It's big and loud, but this new musical is no "Rocky Horror Show"

https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/theater/the-lost-boys-broadway-review/

NY Stage Review

The Lost Boys: Bite, But Not Enough Blood

By Roma Torre

★★★☆☆ Broadway sinks its teeth into the 1987 vampire movie and emerges with a visually thrilling if not so scary musical

 

The Lost Boys: Vampire Musical Lacks Bite

By Frank Scheck

★★★☆☆ Michael Arden directs this lavish musical adaptation of the 1987 cult film about a teenage boy who falls in with a gang of bloodsuckers.

https://nystagereview.com/2026/04/26/the-lost-boys-vampire-musical-lacks-bite/

Four stars from TimeOut

Broadway review: The Lost Boys, a musical that goes for blood

Michael Arden directs a spectacular musical adaptation of the 1987 vampire flick.

https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/broadway-review-the-lost-boys-a-musical-that-goes-for-blood-042726

"Director Michael Arden and scenic designer Dane Laffrey, whose past collaborations include Maybe Happy Ending and A Christmas Carol, have again created a world we’ve never seen onstage before: surprising, thrilling, sometimes genuinely unsettling. The good things about The Lost Boys are so good, in fact, that they make its fumbles especially frustrating; there’s a sense of lost opportunity. But to an impressive extent, the show succeeds where earlier vampire-themed musicals—the ironically short-lived Dance of the Vampires, Dracula and Lestat—have merely sucked. "

ER765 said: "I mean - the difference (and it’s a huge one) is that MHE cost around $15M while THE LOST BOYS cost at least $25-30M…

And to be clear (while I’m sure it will) MHE still hasn’t recouped."

I was just saying they were using negative comments to keep the conversation going (which is better than the alternative). Nothing about recoupment or its ultimate future.