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Inside Broadway's Lost Boys musical: what changed from the movie

Polygon.com·@SamanthaNelson·2 months ago
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Vampire musicals are having a moment. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is dominating Oscars buzz with 16 nominations. In June, AMC will release a spin-off of Interview with the Vampire where the opera-loving vampire Lestat (Sam Reid) starts a band and goes on tour to change his image. And previews begin March 27 for The Lost Boys, a Broadway musical adaptation of Joel Schumacher’s 1987 cult horror-comedy. The show’s writers, David Hornsby and Chris Hoch, tells Polygon in a video interview that they’re trying to learn from previous successes and failures in the genre while delivering plenty of spectacle. “Every musical needs to have really big themes and big wants, and there is just something really great to sink your teeth into about vampire stories as metaphors,” Hornsby says.…

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