A $25 Million Vampire Musical Movie Tests Broadway Profit Slump

April 15, 2026, 9:40 AM UTC

“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 ...

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