THE LOST BOYS Stage Musical Prequel Is Almost Done and You Can Listen to the Music
The 1987 film The Lost Boys has retained a sort of cult-following over the years, as those who grew up watching it still love it today. If the movie is on TV, I’m watching it, and I’m quoting it right along with the actors. The movie follows two brothers and their mom who move in with their grandpa in Santa Carla, California, and realize the town is being overrun by vampires. There’s romance, there’s violence, hilarity ensues. The film stars Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest, Barnard Hughes, Edward Hermann, Kiefer Sutherland, Jami Gertz, Corey Feldman, Jamison Newlander, Alex Winter, Brooke McCarther, and Billy Wirth.
This is an untouchable film to me that had a magic I don’t think could ever be recaptured. It’s cheesy for sure, but the cast is so good, and the greatness in the result of the film that Joel Schumacher made is evident in its fanbase. But if anything was ever good, the people who are in charge nowadays want to exploit that for every penny, so here we are awaiting not only a CW show based on the movie, but a Broadway musical prequel entitled A Lost Boys Story, which musician G Tom Mac (aka Gerard McMahon) says is “nearly done.”
In an interview with SYFY, Mac talked about the musical, which will be a backstory of the vampire David, who was played by Sutherland in the film. Here’s the synopsis:
David, who starts out as an orphan from Lithuania before immigrating to America, where he learns English and is adopted by loving Jewish parents. An exceedingly bright child, he somehow ends up at an orphanage run by head vampire Max (played by Edward Herrmann in the movie), is turned into a member of the living dead, and guides the story toward the events of the movie.
The story then picks up with the character as a teenager, just before we meet him in the film:
"At 17-18 [years old], he hits the road, and that’s when he picks up the other vampires and basically creates a family with the three other guys," Mac explains. "They all come from different walks of life in Middle America, the Midwest, Arizona, and then they head to California. That’s when all the good stuff starts. We tried to take a twist, whereby we know the story of the movie, but we don’t know how it all got there. And in the musical, we do. It’s very much a story of immortality, but it’s also a story about how people in their 20s think they’re immortal, anyway. It kind of runs that parallel of pop culture."
It’s not a bad story, actually, and I think it maybe could work in a film. But Mac has set his score against the story, and is set to take it to the stage. JD McCrary (young Simba in Jon Favreau's Lion King remake) is set to play the smallest member of the blood-sucking brood, Laddie, and A Clockwork Orange's Malcolm McDowell is currently in talks to play Max.
Mac says the film’s director, Joel Schumacher, was a champion of the musical before his passing, and was generous and helpful in the guidance and support he gave. A Lost Boys Story is set to hit Broadway sometime in 2022, after its hopeful reopening in 2021. Check out the music videos released by Mac below, listen to the soundtrack, and let us know what you think.