THE LOST BOYS Reviews — Page 9

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.

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.

Terrifying!

Y'all crack me up

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.

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.

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???

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.

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?

I just saw this and my only question is - how the heck is this going to tour without restaging the whole show?

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.

Updated On: 5/31/26 at 11:35 AM

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.

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