Theater

Can a $25 Million Vampire Musical Beat Broadway’s Profit Slump?

The Tony-winning creative team behind The Lost Boys is trying to give the tired movie-to-musical formula new bite.

L.J. Benet and Ali Louis Bourzgui face off inThe Lost Boys.

Photographer: Matthew Murphy

“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.