*The Tony-winning creative team behind The Lost Boys is trying to give the tired movie-to-musical formula new bite.*
*Chris Rovzar for Bloomberg News*
“Is there going to be an oily saxophone man?”
When you say you’re writing a story about the Broadway musical adaptation of the 1987 vampire flick *The Lost Boys*, that’s the question people ask first if they’ve seen the movie.
A cult classic about mullet-bearing teens sucking blood on a boardwalk in California, it starred some of the most famous young actors from the era: Keifer Sutherland, Jason Patric, the Coreys (Feldman and Haim), Alex Winter and Jami Gertz. The story centers on a mom and her two kids who move to the seaside town of Santa Carla, only to find themselves fighting for their lives — and souls — against a shadowy vampire biker gang.
Those who have watched it are likely to have watched it a lot of times, wearing out the VHS from Blockbuster. Every once in a while, they may still murmur one of its iconic lines, such as, “Death by stereo!”
But most people haven’t seen it and don’t know its litany of wonderfully weird details from schlockster director Joel Schumacher, like how a dog turns into a vampire slayer, or how the camera lingers on that long-haired, greased-up musician. *The Lost Boys* is niche, nowhere nearly as enduringly popular as, say, *Beetlejuice* or *Back to the Future*.
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*The Tony-winning creative team behind The Lost Boys is trying to give the tired movie-to-musical formula new bite.*
*Chris Rovzar for Bloomberg News*
“Is there going to be an oily saxophone man?”
When you say you’re writing a story about the Broadway musical adaptation of the 1987 vampire flick *The Lost Boys*, that’s the question people ask first if they’ve seen the movie.
A cult classic about mullet-bearing teens sucking blood on a boardwalk in California, it starred some of the most famous young actors from the era: Keifer Sutherland, Jason Patric, the Coreys (Feldman and Haim), Alex Winter and Jami Gertz. The story centers on a mom and her two kids who move to the seaside town of Santa Carla, only to find themselves fighting for their lives — and souls — against a shadowy vampire biker gang.
Those who have watched it are likely to have watched it a lot of times, wearing out the VHS from Blockbuster. Every once in a while, they may still murmur one of its iconic lines, such as, “Death by stereo!”
But most people haven’t seen it and don’t know its litany of wonderfully weird details from schlockster director Joel Schumacher, like how a dog turns into a vampire slayer, or how the camera lingers on that long-haired, greased-up musician. *The Lost Boys* is niche, nowhere nearly as enduringly popular as, say, *Beetlejuice* or *Back to the Future*.
[Read the full review here.](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-15/-the-lost-boys-creators-give-new-bite-to-tired-movie-to-musical-formula?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3NjM3ODU2MiwiZXhwIjoxNzc2OTgzMzYyLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUREo0NldLSVVQWU4wMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJEMzU0MUJFQjhBQUY0QkUwQkFBOUQzNkI3QjlCRjI4OCJ9.6A08jVZnvVmw6aXt9JBmNrSwYx5qoOZbULIajeafgUc)
Vampires are intriguing performers 🧛