THE LOST BOYS Previews- Page 5

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 3/29/26 at 5:00am

CoffeeBreak said: "I do have friends that saw the first and now second previews. People talk. They did have opinions that ran the gamut. I have seen the photos, heard the songs and attended a presentation and theshow show soon.
You are keeping no one "in line". Now stop. You've held up the boards long enough, yes- trolling. Stop, please."

Ain't you tired? Clearly, you are overwhelmingly not wanted here. Move on, troll.

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

Posted: 3/29/26 at 7:50am

Observation said: "daniellesf said: "surferbro24 said: "…But the show itself… all over the place.

…the tone, storytelling, and score never quite come together."

This review is dead-on. The show sadly isn’t the big Best Musical front-runner we’ve been waiting for. It can’t decide what it is actually about after going in 5 different directions. The music is bland, they needed major song cuts and rewrites. Two songs standout that made me see potential of what the show could have been (“Belong to Someone” and Shoshana and Paul’s wonderful “Wild”)…

There is so much going on here, I wish it went out of town! Too much that needs to be fixed and not enough time."

In your opinion having seen this, what show would you say is the Best Musical frontrunner?"

Not to answer for daniellesf, but I still think Two Strangers is the Best Musical frontrunner. It especially helps that it's the only completely original musical in contention.

[MrsSallyAdams]

Posted: 3/29/26 at 12:19pm

Finally watched the movie. I'd heard the hype about how homoerotic it was. I was disappointed that this boiled down to some flirty looks from Sutherland and flamboyant behavior from Haim. (Plus that Rob Lowe poster). Does the musical make any of these characters openly LGBT+?

Updated On: 3/29/26 at 12:19 PM

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 3/29/26 at 1:10pm

“Does the musical make any of these characters openly LGBT+?”
 

 

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Yes. One of the gayest characters on Broadway right now.

 

[inception]

Posted: 3/29/26 at 4:15pm

I guess I've got to be patient and wait for discounts for Fall, because right now seats I looked at for Fall are priced about $50 more than they are for the next couple months.

[pagereynolds]

Posted: 3/29/26 at 4:18pm

inception said: "I guess I've got to be patient and wait for discounts for Fall, because right now seats I looked at for Fall are priced about $50 more than they are for the next couple months."

I think they don't usually release discount codes until they know they will last through the summer.

[yyys]

Posted: 3/29/26 at 6:58pm

There’s a discount code MAIL 

[n2nbaby]

Posted: 3/29/26 at 7:09pm

MAIL doesn’t seem to be working for any performances.

[yyys]

Posted: 3/29/26 at 7:31pm

it does for me on Broadwaydirect
 

n2nbaby said: "MAIL doesn’t seem to be working for any performances."

 

[inception]

Posted: 3/29/26 at 9:44pm

Yup looks like that code works for dates up until June 11.

 

[Auggie27]

Posted: 3/29/26 at 10:36pm

One review that mentions the domestic drama taking center stage, and resulting ennui from water treading, raises a point: the film dramatizes a lot of pedestrian middle class life, with the titular characters and their activities if not tangential, weighed down by small town teen comedy/rom com tropes. Not a problem, unless the musical swings too far between reality-based family story's earnest survival and an overly romanticized view of the tribe of vampires. The story needs some grit and consistency in establishing place and how the spaces are inhabited. If the leaps into horror are too spectacle-centric, the show becomes bifurcated in tone and texture. Is that the predominate issue right now? The contrasts are too stark? 

[n2nbaby]

Posted: 3/29/26 at 11:20pm

inception said: "Yup looks like that code works for dates up until June 11.

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Apologies, I was trying to use the code on Telecharge. Thank you!

[trentsketch]

Posted: 3/31/26 at 2:25pm

Got my ticket for next Wednesday. I'm a big horror fan, but I'm not like a The Lost Boys devotee. It's a good film. I'm more a The Hunger kind of vampire guy. 

I'm more in it for the vampires. I basically collect Broadway vampire musicals at this point. I saw Dance of the Vampires, Lestat, and Dracula on Broadway. Might as well add another to the pile. Who knows when the next one will come after that 1-2-3 punch of flops.

In all honesty, my horror friends who saw it already are raving about it, especially the effects. There's an audience here, for sure. Whether that audience can grow and sustain itself is the bigger question.

[Dolly80]

Posted: 3/31/26 at 7:05pm

BrodyFosse123 said: "There is a fine line between a dress rehearsal and a preview, but I do expect that with a preview, even a first one, that the show has been fully run through once or twice to ensure the foundation of the show is settled prior togoing before a paying audience.

ALL shows do a full dress rehearsal from start to finish. Countless times. The invited dress rehearsal is their final one prior to their first preview performance and it’s the first time it’s done WITH people in the audience who are not part of the production. It’s a comped performance and allows the cast and production to get their first taste of a real audience response. It’s the first time they hear laughs, reactions, applause, etc that’s not coming from people who are part of the production. Kinda gives them a sense of what to expect the next day when they perform before a real regular preview audience who paid for their tickets."

You clearly don’t have an actual clue

[Kad]

Posted: 3/31/26 at 11:45pm

The thing about vampires is that they’re so entrancing and beguiling that they distract you from the truth. But even they can’t hide their undead nature forever, particularly if you spend time with them. 

And so it is with The Lost Boys. It dazzles with set and immaculate beams of light cutting through so much theatrical haze that it makes the Phantom of the Opera’s subterranean lair seem like somebody merely just lit a cigarette. The performances are all to a person incredibly strong- the vocals are their own special effect.  The opening twenty minutes are an incredible feat of theatrical storytelling.

And then at some point, I thought to myself, “here’s another ballad sung in a perfectly framed beam of light” and “these lyrics aren’t saying anything,” and, eventually, “why is any of this happening?” It all felt like sleight of hand to distract from the fact that this is a very thin show. And then act two just confirmed it: it rushes like it’s trying to get the union musicians home before they’re owed overtime. We also start getting distractingly campy ensemble choices- Draculas wearing sunglasses and dancing Elviras, a rainbow banner of generic superheroes, a phalanx of knockoff Rambos. These are all suggested to be from the mind of our young, comic book-obsessed vampire hunters, but that’s never really set up as a device and they distract from the midtempo ballads they’re unleashed on. It feels like Michael Arden and co realize that the audience won’t be distracted by spinning plates forever and so they feel the need to start juggling. 
 

The final confrontation has some neat tricks but ultimately is so anticlimactic that it feels like they blew the budget before they finished devising ways to finish killing off the undead. 

It’s ultimately all veneering around material that is simply very middling. It’s not particularly even bad. It’s just fine. There are good individual songs, but the score ultimately just starts feeling monotonous. The book is extremely thin (there are several sizable stretches that are mostly all song with few spoken lines). There’s obvious push on the lyrics to carry exposition and motivation, but they’re mostly just poetic vibes and so we’re left with the barest whisp of things to go on.

The set is a three-level unit set that’s transformed by smaller set pieces and lighting. It is far more convincing as an abandoned ironworks than it is a boardwalk or anything else, though. 
 

As I said, the performances are all really strong. Ali Louis Bourzgui is incredibly and effortlessly compelling. Shoshana Bean indeed makes breakfast and dinner. She’s wonderful and sounds phenomenal, as always.

 

so yeah. It’s a mixed bag. It’s not a disaster, it’s not even bad. It’s just doing so much that I feel exhausted.

The show is long. It started about 8:10 and, booking it out of the theater, I was on the street at 10:58. No tech holds or issues (aside from a very loud audio pop in act two that visibly startled Shoshana Bean and seemed to throw her off in that scene). 
 

Also worth noting that I got to the Palace at 7:45 and it took about ten minutes just to get into the theater, through that godawful bottlenecked lobby, and into my seat. 

 

 

[Auggie27]

Posted: 3/31/26 at 11:59pm

This show cried out for a killer score - something both retro 80s and edgy musical theater - and it sounds too much like Ghost. 

[kurtal]

Posted: 4/1/26 at 12:04am

I saw this tonight from the Balcony, which led to some sight issues.  My instinct is that the entire balcony is actually partial view based on the staging.  You won't miss anything that matters, but you will miss things.

The show is fine.  The spectacle is fine.  The twinks flew.  There's nothing you haven't seen before or seen done better elsewhere.  But the sum is just better enough than the whole of its parts that it aaaaalmost works.  Most of the crowd tonight was off their heads with excitement.  

I didn't love it.  I didn't hate it.  It could win Best Musical.  In this season, who knows?  With some cuts to act one, it could actually be a decent show. 

It was very loud.

Updated On: 4/1/26 at 12:04 AM

[WldKingdomHM]

Posted: 4/1/26 at 12:10am

kurtal said: "I saw this tonight from the Balcony, which led to some sight issues. My instinct is that the entire balcony is actually partial view based on the staging. You won't miss anything that matters, but you will miss things.

The show is fine. The spectacle is fine. The twinks flew. There's nothing you haven't seen before or seen done better elsewhere. But the sum is just better enough than the whole of its parts that it aaaaalmost works. Most of the crowd tonight was off their heads with excitement.

I didn't love it. I didn't hate it. It could win Best Musical. In this season, who knows? With some cuts to act one, it could actually be a decent show.

It was very loud."

The twinks flew. lol that’s Michael Arden for ya 

[noahseestheatre]

Posted: 4/1/26 at 12:14am

I was there tonight too and agree with everything you said. The superheroes just left me so confused, not to mention there being like 0 stakes (lol) in the mom’s relationship at least until the end… felt like vampire water breaks! I still really enjoyed it

and that sound was almost like a gunshot, I wasn’t sure if it was supposed to happen or not. Definitely not! 
 

[noahseestheatre]

Posted: 4/1/26 at 12:17am

Also will be baffled if Shoshana doesn’t nab another Tony nom for this. She sings on a roundabout for God’s Sake!

[CoffeeBreak]

Posted: 4/1/26 at 12:25am

noahseestheatre said: "Also will be baffled if Shoshana doesn’t nab another Tony nom for this. She sings on a roundabout for God’s Sake!"

if only her character hadn't just left the Shubert, crossed east through times square and walked into the Palace.  Copy + paste. 

[noahseestheatre]

Posted: 4/1/26 at 12:26am

CoffeeBreak said: "noahseestheatre said: "Also will be baffled if Shoshana doesn’t nab another Tony nom for this. She sings on a roundabout for God’s Sake!"

if only her character hadn'tjust left the Shubert, crossed east through times square and walked into the Palace. Copy + paste."

At least the food she made had steam in this show

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

Posted: 4/1/26 at 12:28am

Just got back from tonight’s performance. I have not read any feedback on the show (or seen the movie.) 

First off the show is way longer than it has any right to be. It ended at around 10:57 (and it then took a full ten minutes to get out of that theater from the balcony! Seriously the logjam there is terrible.)

The problem is you really feel that length. We don’t need half the songs to be slow ballads about family. It seriously seemed like every other song was sung by Shoshana Bean, who don’t get me wrong is incredible, but I want more vampires in my vampire musical you know? Every time David and the other vampires were on stage I was captivated and really into it, and then we’d get another long sloooow scene in the kitchen or bedroom. The “Frogs” characters are not funny IMO, they were just annoying. Was it supposed to be funny that the girl called herself brother? Was it like that in the film or did they make the character female but kept the name and relationship? Just a weird choice.

And the big final confrontation was just… that’s it? So incredibly anticlimactic. Like they spent all the budget on the set and forgot they needed some kind of big effect scene to end it. And the set is amazing. Really impressive and looked great. 
 
The audience tonight was crazily enthusiastic with yelling and cheering, I was feeling like what am I missing here? 

It’s not bad, it just could have been better.

ETA: oh yeah that loud noise in act two! I totally jumped at that too, definitely did not sound like that was supposed to happen.

Updated On: 4/1/26 at 12:28 AM

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/1/26 at 12:30am

I’d probably do nothing but set the table all day every day too, if I had the same bad luck with men as she does. 

[CoffeeBreak]

Posted: 4/1/26 at 12:33am

If there was a drinking game for any of these ... 

basic & badly rhymed lyric

cliche mention of "family"

the word "Michael" said/sung - or - 

"making it through the night" ... 

- you'd never make it out alive ... 

Updated On: 4/1/26 at 12:33 AM