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My review of The Lost Boys Broadway musical
My review of The Lost Boys Broadway musical:
For the last two days I have been listening to the album for The Lost Boys Broadway musical and it… It’s good. It’s really good.
The Lost Boys Broadway musical follows the plot of the (now classic) 1987 teen vampire movie of the same name. Not only does the musical capture the feel of the 1980s (and not merely for the referencing eighties pop culture and VHS tapes) but it has heart and adds depth that was was not in the original movie or only hinted at in the movie.
The biggest deviation from the movie is the eccentric grandfather no longer exists. I was disappointed when I found out about that because I always loved that character but the play is good enough that it didn’t require him (even though I think he could have fit).
Some of the depth that was added is that the play establishes that Lucy (The mother) had been in an abusive relationship and that Michael had dealt with a lot of physical and emotional abuse at the hands of this father. That was their reason for leaving Arizona and moving to California.
There’s implication that David is attracted to Michael and Michael’s younger brother, Sam, is in-the-closet and gay. (Fright Night was a little more obvious with their queer coded Evil Ed two years earlier but this play makes blatant what was once subtle).
The boy playing Sam (Benjamin Pajak) does a fantastic impersonation of Corey Haim. At first his voie annoyed me a bit in his singing but I came to realize he was trying to sound like the original movie depiction of Sam and got used to it.
The songs are great. I love how Thou Shall Not and Secret Comes out use aspects of “Cry Little Sister” from the original 1987 movie.
My favorite songs in the musical are Murder Capital of the World, Belong to somene reprise, and Secret Comes out, “My brother is a…”,
I feel this musical has more Gothic ambiance and depth and hope- above all else Hope and likable characters better than anything AMC has done with Anne Rice’s “immortal Universe.” This is ironic since a lot of the original Lost Boys movies borrowed heavily from The Vampire Lestat novel and The Lost Boys musical is from the same production company that made the Lestat musical in 2006.
Though the Gothic horror loving fan in me wants to see an alternate universe version of the story where Lucy and Max (the head vampire) do end up together and the consequences of that.
My review of The Lost Boys Broadway musical:
For the last two days I have been listening to the album for The Lost Boys Broadway musical and it… It’s good. It’s really good.
The Lost Boys Broadway musical follows the plot of the (now classic) 1987 teen vampire movie of the same name. Not only does the musical capture the feel of the 1980s (and not merely for the referencing eighties pop culture and VHS tapes) but it has heart and adds depth that was was not in the original movie or only hinted at in the movie.
The biggest deviation from the movie is the eccentric grandfather no longer exists. I was disappointed when I found out about that because I always loved that character but the play is good enough that it didn’t require him (even though I think he could have fit).
Some of the depth that was added is that the play establishes that Lucy (The mother) had been in an abusive relationship and that Michael had dealt with a lot of physical and emotional abuse at the hands of this father. That was their reason for leaving Arizona and moving to California.
There’s implication that David is attracted to Michael and Michael’s younger brother, Sam, is in-the-closet and gay. (Fright Night was a little more obvious with their queer coded Evil Ed two years earlier but this play makes blatant what was once subtle).
The boy playing Sam (Benjamin Pajak) does a fantastic impersonation of Corey Haim. At first his voie annoyed me a bit in his singing but I came to realize he was trying to sound like the original movie depiction of Sam and got used to it.
The songs are great. I love how Thou Shall Not and Secret Comes out use aspects of “Cry Little Sister” from the original 1987 movie.
My favorite songs in the musical are Murder Capital of the World, Belong to somene reprise, and Secret Comes out, “My brother is a…”,
I feel this musical has more Gothic ambiance and depth and hope- above all else Hope and likable characters better than anything AMC has done with Anne Rice’s “immortal Universe.” This is ironic since a lot of the original Lost Boys movies borrowed heavily from The Vampire Lestat novel and The Lost Boys musical is from the same production company that made the Lestat musical in 2006.
Though the Gothic horror loving fan in me wants to see an alternate universe version of the story where Lucy and Max (the head vampire) do end up together and the consequences of that.
