How ‘The Lost Boys’ Director Michael Arden Conquered Broadway’s Fear Of Flying – Tony Watch
The flying comes early and thrillingly in The Lost Boys, the new Broadway musical nominated for 12 Tony Awards including Best Musical and, for Michael Arden, Best Direction of a Musical. Not to simplify this show to that one element, but the soaring and air-dancing is certainly the signature visual of what just might become Broadway’s first hit vampire musical in, well, ever. (Non-musical stage vampires have a better survival rate, if only because of two Draculas – Bela Lugosi and Frank Langella – back in ’27 and ’77.
Far from shying away from Broadway’s Vampire Curse, though, The Lost Boys goes for the jugular fast. The brief opening scene features a police officer checking out a reported disturbance at a creepy old abandoned steel factory. Even if you can guess what’s about to happen, the moment when the vampire swoops in from high above the stage and makes off with the victim is both creepy and, from a stagecraft perspective, quite lovely. That prologue sets the tone for what’s coming.
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