The Lost Boys

All epic failures, and Karen- Carrie is the still, after all these years, the biggest bomb in Broadway history.

Nobody was putting money on horror theater for a long time, until all of a sudden right now, Paranormal Activity is running on Broadway, Stranger Things, The Lost Boys musical, off-Broadway we've got A Ghost in Your Ear, and something called 2:22: The, uh, Ghost Story, which just opened.

That's five horror plays running in major theaters right now that are not only critical successes, but they're audience suc- uh, financial successes as well.

And for an aging theater queen who also really loves to get scared, this is a big deal.

His career highlights include the critically acclaimed productions of Billy Elliot at the Curve, Lord of the Rings at the Watermill, and Jamie Lloyd's reimagined Sunset Boulevard, West End and Broadway.

He won an Olivier Award for Best Sound Design for Sunset Boulevard in twenty twenty-four, an Olivier Award nomination for Into the Woods in twenty twenty-six, and a Tony Award nomination for The Lost Boys in twenty twenty-six.

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Uh, when and where was your first connection to sound?

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In 2026, the winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical was Schmigadoon, and the additional nominees that season were The Lost Boys and Tyneek.

Tyneek.

Ty-tan-eek.

There's Trafeek.

Did today's subject deserve to win the Tony Award for Best Musical over its competition? I'm thinking yes.

Yes, I'm utterly unfamiliar with The Lost Boys and Titanic.

So, you know, I could change my mind, of course, but I don't know.

last pony boys yeah

music is desperate i'm coming out to new york well i was going to come out in september but i think i'm going to come out for a long period of time in the autumn that i am going to be obsessed with um my god my brain god shoshana beans in at the moment Lost Boys.

Oh, Lost Boys.

Yes.

Oh my God.

I'm sure he's amazing.

Seven is Lost Boys at just over 1 million

and an 83% capacity.

Lost Boys, very interestingly, starting after Broadway week, they're closing the balcony for all weekday shows.

So they're only going to sell the orchestra and the mezzanine.

So their percentage capacity will likely go up, but they're selling less tickets.

Like until... a month before the Tonys, it was the main pick.

And then it fell off.

There were some dips in there as well.

In comparison with other productions on Broadway, if you think about a show like The Lost Boys, this is clearly so much cheaper in terms of its weekly running costs.

There is a two-person cast on stage.

There are four standbys backstage.

And here's the other thing.

With shows like Two Strangers and Six, it is beneficial on the one hand that they are smaller productions, that they are smaller cast, they are less expensive to run.

It also means that as you see ticket prices rising, audiences see that production, they see that cast size, and they consider it slightly more of an affront to have to pay that much for something so small when they look at what they could be getting at admittedly a higher ticket price, uh, over at Hamilton at the Richard Rodgers or with The Lost Boys, when they see big scale.

And a lot of people associate that with the Broadway musical.