Broadway‘s Curse of the Vampire Musicals might be taking a stake through the heart right about now. The Lost Boys, the Michael Arden-directed stage adaptation of the 1987 movie about teenage bloodsuckers, opens tonight at the Palace Theatre, and it’s killer fun.
Nightmare memories of Lestat, Dracula the Musical and Dance of the Vampires fade like twilight within minutes of The Lost Boys‘ opening bite, as one of the title creatures swoops down from the rafters to fly off with a hapless security guard attempting to roust those meddlesome kids from an abandoned steelworks factory.
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
...Keep reading this article on DEADLINE.
