Posted: 4/1/26 at 8:37pm
the director chose the band to write the music when brought on board by producers. this is his show from the ground up - music composer and all.
Updated On: 4/1/26 at 08:37 PM
Posted: 4/1/26 at 9:30pm
Oh this is terrible. Michael’s twink army lives and they ruin every scene. Gone is a great 80s beautiful movie. Michael Arden if you need help let me know. The cast excluding Sho, Ali, and LJ are all over acting and they need to replace the girl who plays Star asap. The opening needs to go and needs to be replaced with a slow moving curtain opener with Cry Little Sister. They also have a mosh pit scene with the actors waving their arms looking terrible it needs be be cut because it’s all over and the actors look very silly. Oh hi Quizking in back of me
Updated On: 4/2/26 at 09:30 PM
Posted: 4/1/26 at 9:41pm
WldKingdomHM said: "Oh this is terrible. Michael’s twink army lives and they ruin every scene. Gone is a great 80s beautiful movie. Michael Arden if you need help let me know. The cast excluding Sho, Ali, and LJ are all over acting and they need to replace the girl who plays Star asap. The opening needs to go and needs to be replaced with a slow moving curtain opener with Cry Little Sister.Oh hi Quizking in back of me"
Lol. I will compile my thoughts more later, but I’m actually not hating this so far. The camp and queer subtext of this show is actually off the rails for sure, but after suffering through Beaches this afternoon, that may color my perspective on this being great because it doesn’t make me wish I was Kelli Barrett slowly dying of Unknown Lady Disease.
Also, may this be the show where Ali Louis Bourzgui finally gets some flowers. He’s in his 20s and is basically the Broadway equivalent of a Rick-roll
Posted: 4/1/26 at 11:05pm
This may be the longest show I have ever seen on Broadway. It certainly feels that way.
Posted: 4/2/26 at 12:01am
lila12 said: "This may be the longest show I have ever seen on Broadway. It certainly feels that way."
Oh boy this was long and exhausting. Act two was a hot mess and the battle scene reminded me of Wonderland.Caissie Levy dodged a bullet and we are left with poor Shoshana doing nothing but sitting and setting up a table on and on but omg that voice she should of opened the Palace back up. You don’t get a sense they were lost boys…just band members looking for a good time and if Star was part of the band in Act One she is lost for Act Two
During the post curtain call scene the audience were laughing and screaming back at one point someone said “oh look a deleted scene”. I don’t see this running at all. Please forgive my spelling I’m exhausted lol
ps there’s a song / scene called Belong to Someone it’s the best scene and song in the show. It’s thrilling and should of closed Act 1
Updated On: 4/2/26 at 12:01 AM
Posted: 4/2/26 at 12:11am
Saw it for the second time tonight and was surprised at how many major changes have already happened since last week, with one song completely gone, a new scene added and plenty of other changes. Will share more details tomorrow.
Posted: 4/2/26 at 1:05am
quizking101 said: "WldKingdomHM said: "Oh this is terrible. Michael’s twink army lives and they ruin every scene. Gone is a great 80s beautiful movie. Michael Arden if you need help let me know. The cast excluding Sho, Ali, and LJ are all over acting and they need to replace the girl who plays Star asap. The opening needs to go and needs to be replaced with a slow moving curtain opener with Cry Little Sister.Oh hi Quizking in back of me"
Lol. I will compile my thoughts more later, but I’m actually not hating this so far.The camp and queer subtext of this show is actually off the rails for sure, but after suffering through Beaches this afternoon, that may color my perspective on this being great because it doesn’t make me wish I was Kelli Barrett slowly dying of Unknown Lady Disease.
Also, may this be the show where Ali Louis Bourzgui finally gets some flowers. He’s in his 20s and is basically the Broadway equivalent of a Rick-roll"
Continuing on - how exactly does a 97 minute film become a 2:45 musical? That second act felt LOOOOOONG. It seemed like it needed to give more attention to, and subsequently wrap up, a panoply of subplots that could stand to be trimmed. (In particular, the little brother’s queer awakening and associated superhero musical number can easily be tossed out.) Each subsequent song (all bangers, no subtlety) in act II felt like the volume was being increased a little more, but that was also partly because Shoshana finally had something to do beyond her kitchen acting and a number about “Be Kind, Rewind”. Admittedly, I did find my mind wandering more than once as I wondered how this was finally going to tie up and why it was taking so long to get there.
This show is firmly at the intersection of THE OUTSIDERS and STRANGER THINGS with enough queer subtext and overtures to make a gender studies professor giddy. Personally, I find the former to be a great musical, if a bit heavy handed, and the latter to be a play that’s more about assaulting senses than telling a story. Here, I actually very much enjoyed the wire work and special effects by the cast because it was actually in service to the story and not just used to WOW/distract the audience.
I’m not inclined to tell anyone to skip it because it’s certainly bold in a season full of safe properties, but it needs to trim some fat and also remember that subtlety did exist in the 1980s. I may go back in a month myself to see how things did or did not change.
STAGE DOOR: Everyone came out. The guy at the door said they usually do but timing is contingent on guests and post-show notes. Everything was wrapped by 11:30
Posted: 4/2/26 at 1:38am
Where’s the stage door in the theater’s new incarnation/elevation?
Posted: 4/2/26 at 3:02am
jpbran said: "Where’s the stage door in the theater’s new incarnation/elevation?"
Outside to the left of the main entrance. It’s marked and the barricades are usually up
Posted: 4/2/26 at 7:43am
quizking101 said: "how exactly does a 97 minute film become a 2:45 musical?"
John Chu inexplicably turned a 150 minute musical into 298 minutes of film.
Posted: 4/2/26 at 7:49am
Spotted in the audience last night were Jerry Mitchell, Orfeh, John Stamos, Michel Arden in his Beetlejuice jacket and the wonderful Scott Rudin lol
Updated On: 4/2/26 at 07:49 AM
Posted: 4/2/26 at 9:10am
I really did not find this production particularly queer or homoerotic, and I say that as somebody who is very queer.
Sam’s queerness is never made totally explicit and is largely played for laughs (in the “the audience can tell but the characters can’t” way).
I wish that there was a bit of a romantic triangle between Michael, David, and Star, but that kind of dynamic between Michael and David just isn’t present here. Michael and David barely have any kind of relationship at all.
I guess if you really wanted to crank the queer lens up to peak magnification, you could make an argument that the show, by making the true antagonist’s stated goal be to create a traditional family structure, is depicting non-heteronormative family structures as preferable. But I think that’s projecting a lot onto a show that doesn’t really make that case in a way that isn’t extremely superficial.
This is a season where we’ve got Jellicle Ball, Titanique, and Rocky Horror being queer as hell. Lost Boys just has bisexual lighting and some yearning.
Updated On: 4/2/26 at 09:10 AM
Posted: 4/2/26 at 10:54am
Kad said: "I wish that there was a bit of a romantic triangle between Michael, David, and Star, but that kind of dynamic between Michael and David just isn’t present here. Michael and David barely have any kind of relationship at all."
WTF. I am seeing this tonight and now tempering all expectations outside of Ali's platinum blond wig after reading this.
Posted: 4/2/26 at 11:11am
Kad said:” I guess if you really wanted to crank the queer lens up to peak magnification, you could make an argument that the show, by making the true antagonist’s stated goal be to create a traditional family structure, is depicting non-heteronormative family structures as preferable. But I think that’s projecting a lot onto a show that doesn’t really make that case in a way that isn’t extremely superficial.
This is a season where we’ve got Jellicle Ball, Titanique, and Rocky Horror being queer as hell. Lost Boys just has bisexual lighting and some yearning."
This was the lens I was looking through, though I also was thinking about the element of a seductive/dangerous outsider (in 1987 context) preying on cultural anxieties of the time, but manages to appeal as an anti-assimilationist figure to the main protagonist. Add to that Michael’s arc of secretive behavior, physical changes, fear of hurting family, and shame in not being able to meet expected masculine standards by defending family against his father all set off my queer subtext alarm.
Posted: 4/2/26 at 11:22am
the show attempts to bait the queer theater audience member. does it? no
Updated On: 4/2/26 at 11:22 AM
Posted: 4/2/26 at 11:38am
quizking101 said: "Kad said:” Iguess if you really wanted to crank the queer lens up to peak magnification, you could make an argument that the show, by making the true antagonist’s stated goal be to create a traditional family structure, is depicting non-heteronormative family structures as preferable. But I think that’s projecting a lot onto a show that doesn’t really make that case in a way that isn’t extremely superficial.
This is a season where we’ve got Jellicle Ball, Titanique, and Rocky Horror being queer as hell. Lost Boys just has bisexual lighting and some yearning."
This was the lens I was looking through, though I also was thinking about the element of a seductive/dangerous outsider (in 1987 context) preying on cultural anxieties of the time, but manages to appeal as an anti-assimilationist figure to the main protagonist. Add to that Michael’s arc of secretive behavior, physical changes, fear of hurting family, and shame in not being able to meet expected masculine standards by defending family against his father all set off my queer subtext alarm."
That's certainly true, as it's true of a lot horror stories and in this case, it's carried over from the source material without being expanded or explored too much.
But the issue with the focus on non-heteronormative families with Lost Boys is that it's undercut by the plot contrivance that separates the two antagonists, isolates them from one another, and effectively puts them at cross-purposes. David creates his own found family; the head vampire explicitly wants a heteronormative family. To preserve the "reveal," (insanely telegraphed as it may be) these two characters have never seemed to communicate with one another. For all that the material has been expanded- by over an hour- we don't get a lot of fleshing out of these characters, so we end up with a muddled message that found families made up of misfits and outcasts is good... unless it's not.
Updated On: 4/2/26 at 11:38 AM
Posted: 4/2/26 at 12:00pm
CoffeeBreak said: "the show attempts tobait the queer theater audience member. does it? no"
That would involve hiring a cast that had sexual allure.
Posted: 4/2/26 at 12:23pm
How sexually attractive blug finds these young performers aside...
Some of the bigger differences I noticed from show #1 to last night:
Overall, was pretty surprised to see such major changes just a few shows later. Will definitely check back in on this one after opening, as I'm sure it'll look much different over the next month at this rate.
Posted: 4/2/26 at 12:26pm
Ensemble1665759202 said: "
Was it the song in the comic shop about him running away from things?
Posted: 4/2/26 at 12:28pm
Kad said: "Lost Boys just has bisexual lighting and some yearning."
I forgot to point out that this quip made me laugh because it sounds like a film rating.
THE LOST BOYS - RATED PG-13 for bisexual lighting and some yearning.
Posted: 4/2/26 at 12:29pm
Kad said: "Ensemble1665759202 said: "
Was it the song in the comic shop about him running away from things?"
Yeah that's the one. Was gone last night.
Posted: 4/2/26 at 12:33pm
Ensemble1665759202 said: "Kad said: "Ensemble1665759202 said: "
Was it the song in the comic shop about him running away from things?"
Yeah that's the one. Was gone last night."
That's a surprising cut, especially since his big act two song with the superheroes is a direct response to it.
Updated On: 4/2/26 at 12:33 PM
Posted: 4/2/26 at 12:38pm
Kad said: "Ensemble1665759202 said: "Kad said: "Ensemble1665759202 said: "
Was it the song in the comic shop about him running away from things?"
Yeah that's the one. Was gone last night."
That's a surprising cut, especially since his big act two song with the superheroes is a direct response to it."
That explains why the Superhero number was also a WTF moment for me.
Posted: 4/2/26 at 12:39pm
quizking101 said: "Kad said: "Ensemble1665759202 said: "Kad said: "Ensemble1665759202 said: "
Was it the song in the comic shop about him running away from things?"
Yeah that's the one. Was gone last night."
That's a surprising cut, especially since his big act two song with the superheroes is a direct response to it."
That explains why the Superhero number was also a WTF moment for me."
...I assure you, even with the other song, that was still a WTF moment.
Posted: 4/2/26 at 2:39pm
As far as seating, which side is better? I’m trying to buy a non center seat.
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