THE LOST BOYS Reviews- Page 9
THE LOST BOYS Reviews
Broadway Star Joined: 11/1/23
THE LOST BOYS Reviews#200
Posted: 5/27/26 at 9:29am
Both Ensemble 02 and 97 work for The Lost Boys and prefer to discredit others."
Please don’t pull me into the conversation because this entire board chuckled at your foolishness. For the 525,600th time: I don’t work for Lost Boys. I don’t think it’s a perfect musical, but I do think the consensus on this board is that we’d like for you to stop talking about the show or talking at all. You discredit yourself when you repeat how much you hate LB. We don’t care, Jan. Go touch grass, babe.
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
THE LOST BOYS Reviews#201
Posted: 5/27/26 at 11:52am
Random, but I don't know how Bean sings on that whirling playground ride. It made me dizzy, and I couldn't contemplate how she pulls it off, even using a dancer's spotting training. Anyone else? It's terrifying to watch, and her money notes - and the song knows where they are - explode while she's moving in a fast, rushing circular motion, the type used in NASA training. Stunned and awed, but wondering how 8 times a week works for her.
THE LOST BOYS Reviews#202
Posted: 5/27/26 at 12:34pm
Auggie27 said: "It's terrifying to watch, and her money notes - and the song knows where they are - explode while she's moving in a fast, rushing circular motion, the type used in NASA training."
Gurl…
She used to sprint around the Gershwin and belt higher and longer 8x a week. To say nothing of the cherry picker. I think she can handle a few seconds of twirling on a literal playground spinner.
THE LOST BOYS Reviews#203
Posted: 5/27/26 at 12:39pm
I really don't remember it being anything more than a couple of modestly quick rotations? It's not like they put her in a centrifuge.
THE LOST BOYS Reviews#205
Posted: 5/27/26 at 12:54pm
New footage of The Lost Boys, starring Shoshana Bean:
THE LOST BOYS Reviews#207
Posted: 5/27/26 at 1:14pm
“To be wiiiiild
Wiiiiiiiild agaaaaaain”
THE LOST BOYS Reviews#208
Posted: 5/27/26 at 7:31pm
Do we think this has a better chance of winning Best Musical than Two Strangers? I’m asking cause I can only see one of them.
Broadway Star Joined: 11/1/23
THE LOST BOYS Reviews#209
Posted: 5/27/26 at 7:43pm
bruceway said: "Do we think this has a better chance of winning Best Musical than Two Strangers? I’m asking cause I can only see one of them."
Two Strangers is a musical one can perform in their backyard with high school friends. See Lost Boys purely for the experience of a mammoth Broadway show. Regardless of its flaws it is a cool evening of theater.
Featured Actor Joined: 6/4/10
THE LOST BOYS Reviews#210
Posted: 5/27/26 at 8:00pm
bruceway said: "Do we think this has a better chance of winning Best Musical than Two Strangers? I’m asking cause I can only see one of them."
They're very different. Two Strangers will be identical on tour and play very well in regional houses. Lost Boys will have to be scaled down for tour and likely won't have the same appeal to regional houses so I'd choose Lost Boys because it may be your only chance to see the show the way the creators intended.
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
THE LOST BOYS Reviews#211
Posted: 5/27/26 at 9:27pm
Well, I asked for that, didn't I? I love all these posts. But in my defense, when I saw a preview, she was ridin' that thing a long time.
THE LOST BOYS Reviews#212
Posted: 5/27/26 at 9:33pm
Nettik said: "bruceway said: "Do we think this has a better chance of winning Best Musical than Two Strangers? I’m asking cause I can only see one of them."
They're very different. Two Strangers will be identical on tour and play very well in regional houses. Lost Boys will have to be scaled down for tour and likely won't have the same appeal to regional houses so I'd choose Lost Boys because it may be your only chance to see the show the way the creators intended."
But which one has a better chance at Best Musical???
Featured Actor Joined: 6/4/10
THE LOST BOYS Reviews#213
Posted: 5/27/26 at 10:03pm
bruceway said:
But which one has a better chance at Best Musical???"
Schmigadoon.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
THE LOST BOYS Reviews#214
Posted: 5/28/26 at 12:17am
bruceway said: "Nettik said: "bruceway said: "Do we think this has a better chance of winning Best Musical than Two Strangers? I’m asking cause I can only see one of them."
They're very different. Two Strangers will be identical on tour and play very well in regional houses. Lost Boys will have to be scaled down for tour and likely won't have the same appeal to regional houses so I'd choose Lost Boys because it may be your only chance to see the show the way the creators intended."
But which one has a better chance at Best Musical???"
Neither at this point. The spectacle is cool but without it, it's dismal.
80s music was so melodic, commercial and catchy, so it's hard to understand why this score is the most generic sounding thing in decades.
Maybe it will win for most spins while belting.
THE LOST BOYS Reviews#215
Posted: 5/28/26 at 12:19am
I feel like it's a coin toss, IMO.
Speaking purely personally --- Lost Boys felt like the *most* musical in terms of sheer scale, size and ambition, which shouldn't be unrecognized (and I hope is in the Tech categories). But I do wish the finances allowed it an out-of-town - it just wasn't cohesive at all to me between the two acts and left a luxury talented cast doing the best they could.
Two Strangers is a dark horse to me - Pitts and Tutti have been on a charm offensive, which comes naturally as they're both wonderful in an objectively charming musical. My caveat would be that it's a bit too small / twee, and the lack of box office could be an influence. (It shouldn't be, to be sure.)
The surprise of the season to me was Schmigadoon! I enjoyed the Apple+ series, but was genuinely surprised and delighted with what all of the creatives -- and another A+++ cast --- truly transformed the series into an original show that threaded the very difficult needle of winking at the conventions of classic musicals without ever punching down or being mean. There's a lot to just sit back and enjoy.
I *adore* Titanique and I think the nominations are its reward in this very strange year.
Again, all my $0.02.
THE LOST BOYS Reviews#216
Posted: 5/28/26 at 9:19am
After seeing all four new musicals I think the Tony award will go to Schmigadoon. The Lost Boys was more ambitious but the train went off the rails in act 2. Schmigadoon will also have a somewhat successful tour. I did not think it was all that great and it was a carbon copy of the tv show, but at the end of the day someone will walk home with the Tony award.
This is completely off the subject, but has anyone ever tried to make a musical out of Lord of the Flies?
THE LOST BOYS Reviews#217
Posted: 5/29/26 at 9:05pm
We finally caught The Lost Boys at the Wednesday matinee this week, and sure it has a disappointing Act II (what show doesn't these days?), but man are we glad we got to see it in all its glory at the Palace!
We go to musical theater to be thrilled, and that's exactly what we got from Act I (if we agree to ignore the inert opening 20 minutes that gets the family from AZ to Santa Carla). We were thrilled by the motorcycle ride, thrilled by the railroad bridge, thrilled by the flying, and really really thrilled by the choral harmonies that accompanied the best songs in the score.
The sets and lights should win all the Tonys they're up for, but I have one big gripe-- can't this show give us even ONE lousy new set for Act II?? (Sorry but a single dinky steakhouse banquet doesn't qualify.)
Here's another question that bugged me during the finale battle: how come all the vampires lost their ability to fly just when we want them to fly the most??
All told, it's mostly a blast of a show, and we're so glad something this bold and ballsy is packing them in on Broadway in this impoverished day and age.
THE LOST BOYS Reviews#218
Posted: 5/30/26 at 11:20pm
I just saw this and my only question is - how the heck is this going to tour without restaging the whole show?
Broadway Star Joined: 11/12/13
THE LOST BOYS Reviews#219
Posted: 5/31/26 at 6:18am
Saw this yesterday. I liked the score in act one better than most. But agree about act two. There are too many similar songs repeating information we already learned. I’d have traded two of mom’s Dear Evan Hansen solos for the chance to learn something about the other vampire musicians.
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
THE LOST BOYS Reviews#220
Posted: 5/31/26 at 11:35am
MILD SPOILER INNUENDO. I must agree with Mrs. Sally: the show wants to be about the rangy nature of family, biological and chosen, but spends considerably less time on the chosen. In effect, this stacks the deck and makes it clear from the outset that the vampire culture will lose. It would be stronger to feel the two factions, um, neck in neck. Nothing in act two takes "Belong to Someone" to next level emotional investment. Arguably, one issue is the decision to give two love interests to the protagonist instead of one. The homoerotic pull of David feels more compelling, yet the show wants the straight romance to fold into a typical musical theater construct. That all-over-the-place act 2 ends up having to solve too many threads, even as it weighs the story down with the younger brother's campy coming out.
Leading Actor Joined: 11/17/11
THE LOST BOYS Reviews#221
Posted: 6/1/26 at 5:47pm
How do you make vampires fly effortlessly on Broadway? Strong wires, harnesses and lots of practice
https://apnews.com/article/broadway-vampires-lost-boys-fly-01e75a334703fddbc11e59df8656832d
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
THE LOST BOYS Reviews#222
Posted: 6/1/26 at 7:14pm
Was I the only one disappointed with the flying?
At some point they used lighting where you could barely see the cables, then it all goes downhill where it looks like they are clumsily pulled up by seven construction cranes.
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
THE LOST BOYS Reviews#223
Posted: 6/1/26 at 8:48pm
To your point: the show uses up its best flying FX in the first act, that Magritte-like sequence on the bridge. Nothing comes close to it in the second act. Therein lies the problem: we believe we'll be treated to something transcendent in the end. But at least as late as the penultimate week of previews, it felt rushed.
Leading Actor Joined: 9/25/24
THE LOST BOYS Reviews#224
Posted: 6/2/26 at 5:41pm
blaxx said: "Was I the only one disappointed with the flying?
At some point they used lighting where you could barely see the cables, then it all goes downhill where it looks like they are clumsily pulled up by seven construction cranes."
At a certain point you can even see actors removing the cables and them going back up into the air
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