B'way Update: Lost Boys Dates, Cast and Theater

Billy Wirth, Kiefer Sutherland, Brooke McCarter,
and Alex Winter in The Lost Boys (1987).

The Lost Boys, the new musical based on the 1987 horror-comedy film, has announced dates, casting and a theater for its Broadway run. Previews begin March 26, 2026 at the Palace Theater, prior to an April 26 opening. The cast includes Caissie Levy (LCT's current Ragtime) as ‘Lucy Emerson,’ LJ Benet as ‘Michael Emerson,’ Ali Louis Bourzgui (The Who's Tommy) as ‘David,’ Benjamin Pajak (The Music Man) as ‘Sam Emerson,’ Maria Wirries (Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends) as ‘Star,’ Paul Alexander Nolan (Water for Elephants, Slave Play) as ‘Max,’ Jennifer Duka as ‘Alan Frog,’ Miguel Gil (Kimberly Akimbo) as ‘Edgar Frog,’ Brian Flores (Oratorio for Living Things) as ‘Marko,’ Sean Grandillo (Spring Awakening) as ‘Dwayne,’ and Dean Maupin as ‘Paul.’ 

The new musical, based on the Warner Bros. Pictures film THE LOST BOYS, story by James Jeremias & Janice Roberta Fischer, will feature direction by two-time Tony Award winner Michael Arden (Parade, Maybe Happy Ending), a book by David Hornsby (“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” writer/EP) & Chris Hoch, music & lyrics by The Rescues (Kyler England, AG, Gabriel Mann), choreography by Lauren Yalango-Grant (Parade) & Christopher Cree Grant (Parade), music supervision by two-time Tony Award nominee Ethan Popp (Tina, The Tina Turner Musical), orchestrations & musical arrangements by Ethan Popp  & The Rescues, and Vocal Arrangements by The Rescues.

The plot follows two teenaged brothers who move into a California town which turns out to be a haven for vampires. Previous Broadway musicals with vampire themes such as Lestat, Dracula, and Dance of the Vampires, have not fared well. Hopefully Lost Boys will break that curse.

2025-26 Broadway/Off-Broadway Calendar
Fall 2025
Oct. 8--Beetlejuice (Palace) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Oct. 9--Andre De Shields Is Tartuffe (House of the Redeemer)
Oct. 13--Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God (Playwrights Horizons)
Oct. 15--Let's Love (Atlantic Theater Company)
Oct. 15--Oh Happy Day (Public)
Oct. 16--Ragtime (Vivian Beaumont/LCT)
Oct. 16--Oratorio of Living Things (Signature Theater Company)
Oct. 22--Endgame (Druid/Irish Arts Center) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Oct. 24--Did You Eat? (Public)
Oct. 27--Beau the Musical (St. Luke's)
Oct. 28--Liberation (James Earl Jones)
Oct. 28--Romy and Michelle: The Musical (Stage 42)
Oct. 29--Bat Boy (Encores!)
Oct. 30--Little Bear Ridge Road (Booth)
Nov. 2--Messy White Gays (Duke on 42nd)
Nov. 3--Kyoto (LCT/Newhouse)
Nov. 5--Queens (MTC/City Center) 
Nov. 6--Rob Lake Magic with Special Guests The Muppets (Broadhurst)
Nov. 7--Gruesome Playground Injuries (Lortel)
Nov. 9--The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire (Vineyard)
Nov. 10--Queen of Versailles (St. James)
Nov. 10--Richard II (Red Bull/Astor Place)
Nov. 11--The Baker's Wife (CSC) 
Nov. 12--Archduke (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
Nov. 13--Oedipus (Roundabout/Studio 54)
Nov. 13--The Seat of Our Pants (Public)
Nov. 16--Chess (Imperial)
Nov. 17--The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (New World Stages)
Nov. 17--Meet the Cartozians (Second Stage/Signature Center)
Nov. 18--This World of Tomorrow (Shed)
Nov. 18--Practice (Playwrights Horizons)
Nov. 20--Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) (Longacre)
Nov. 20--Initiative (Public)
Cottonfield
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Sugar Daddy

Winter 2025-26

Dec. 4--A Christmas Carol (Perelman Performing Arts Center)

Dec. 8--Marjorie Prime (Second Stage/Hayes)

Dec. 11--Anna Christie (St. Ann's Warehouse)

Dec. 16--Tartuffe (NYTW)

Dec. 18--Amahl and the Night Visitors (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)

Jan. 8--Bug (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman)

Jan. 2026--Ulysses (Elevator Repair Service/Public)

Feb. 1--Coriolanus (TFANA) (previews begin; opening TBA)

Feb. 11--Monsters (MTC/City Center)

Feb. 25--Meat Suit, or the shitshow of motherhood (Second Stage/Signature Theater)

February--Marcel on the Train (CSC)

February--Bigfoot! the Musical (MTC/City Center)

Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) (Public)

Chinese Republicans (Roundabout/Laura Pels)

The Dinosaurs (Playwrights Horizons)

Jesa (Public)

Public Charge (Public)

The Reservoir (Atlantic Theater Company)

Mother Russia (Signature Theater Company)

2026

Dolly: An Original Musical

Wanted (formerly Gun and Powder)

Spring 2026

March 5--What We Did Before Our Moth Days (Greenwich House Theater)

March 10--Cold War Choir Practice (MCC)

March 11--Giant (previews begin; opening date and theater TBA)

March 23--Hamlet (Teatro La Plaza/TFANA)

March 30--Dog Day Afternoon (August Wilson)

April 8--Becky Shaw (Second Stage/Hayes)

April 16--Proof (Theater TBA)

April 20--Schmigadoon (Nederlander)

April 26--The Lost Boys (Palace)

May 7--The Receptionist (Second Stage/Signature Center)

May--The Emporium (CSC)

: Girls : Chance : Music (Vineyard Theater)

Animal Wisdom (Signature Theater Company)

The Balusters (MTC/Friedman)

Cats: The Jellicle Ball

Fallen Angels (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)

Indian Princesses (Atlantic Theater Co.)

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Montauk

My Joy Is Heavy (NYTW)

No Singing in the Navy (Playwrights Horizons)

Rheology (Playwrights Horizons)

The Rocky Horror Show (Roundabout/Studio 54)

2026-27

Death of a Salesman

Let the Good Times Roll: A New Orleans Gumbo

Private Lives

Summer 2026

June 24--Birthright (MCC)

July 14--The Whoopi Monologues (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)

Fall 2026

Dreamgirls

Future--10 Things I Hate About You; Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beaches the Musical; Beat Street; Black Orpheus; Coal Miner's Daughter; Come Fall in Love--The DDLJ Musical; Crazy Rich Asians; The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Eurovision Song Contest; Everybody's Talking About Jamie; Fahrenheit 451; Fire and Rain: The James Taylor Musical; Frida, the Musical; Game of Thrones; Get Happy; The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation; High Noon; Imitation of Life; The Interestings; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; The Karate Kid; La La Land; The Mousetrap; Nancy Drew and the Mystery at Spotlight Manor; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; Pal Joey; Particle Fever; Purple Rain; The Queen's Gambit; Rear Window; The Secret Garden; Sing Street; Slumdog Millionaire; Soul Train; Studio 54; Waking Ned Devine; Working Girl.

2025-26 Broadway Season Breakdown

New Plays

The Balusters

Call Me Izzy

Cottonfield

Dog Day Afternoon

Giant

Liberation (transfer from Off-Broadway)

Little Bear Ridge Road

Montauk

Oedipus

Punch

New Musicals

Dolly: An Original Musical

The Lost Boys

Schmigadoon

Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)

Queen of Versailles

Play Revivals

Art

Becky Shaw

Bug

Fallen Angels

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Marjorie Prime

Proof

Waiting for Godot

Musical Revivals

Beetlejuice

Cats: The Jellicle Ball

Chess

Mamma Mia!

Ragtime

The Rocky Horror Show

Solos/Specialties
Jeffrey Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride

Rob Lake Magic with Special Guests The Muppets