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Billy Wirth, Kiefer Sutherland, Brooke McCarter,
and Alex Winter in The Lost Boys.
Credit: Warner Brothers |
The Lost Boys, a new Broadway musical based on the 1987 horror film, has not only announced it plans open in the Spring of 2026, but also has got a theater booked: The Palace. The new musical will feature direction by Tony Award winner Michael Arden (Parade, Maybe Happy Ending), book by David Hornsby (“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” writer/EP) & Chris Hoch, music & lyrics by The Rescues (Kyler England, AG, Gabriel Mann), music supervision by Tony Award nominee Ethan Popp (Tina, The Tina Turner Musical), and choreography by Lauren Yalango-Grant (Parade) and Christopher Cree Grant (Parade). There will be a private industry-only reading of the show on March 14, 2025."Michael Arden is one of the most dynamic directors working today, and to have him reimagine an iconic film like THE LOST BOYS is thrilling, especially when we consider how it will come to life at the legendary Palace Theatre.” said producers James Carpinello, Marcus Chait and Patrick Wilson. “David Hornsby and Chris Hoch have done a remarkable job of honoring this classic film and its beloved characters, creating something new and unique for the stage that will excite the die-hard fans of the movie as well as those being introduced to this timeless story for the first time."
The film directed by Joel Schumacher follows two teenaged brother who move with their single mom into a California town which happens to be populated by vampires. Broadway does not have a great track record with musicals involving the undead. Musical versions of Interview with the Vampire, Dance of the Vampires and the classic Dracula have all been flop. Maybe The Lost Boys will break the curse.
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Rachel McAdams and Will Farrell
in Eurovision Song Contest. |
Eurovision: On a recent Edition of Great Britain's sensational chat-fest The Graham Norton Show, Will Ferrell announced was developing a musical version of his 2020 Netflix film comedy Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. In the film, Farrell played an aspiring Idelandic pop star who enters the real-life competition.
Wonderful World to Close: A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical has posted a closing notice of Feb. 23 at Studio 54. The bio-musical about the jazz legend will have played 31 previews and 120 regular performances. The big question is with a Broadway house available will another show snatch it up before the Tony deadline?
2024-25 Broadway/Off-Broadway/Awards Calendar
Winter 2024-25
Feb. 4--Grangeville (Signature Theater)
Feb. 6--My First Ex-Husband (MMAC Theater)
Feb. 12--On the Evolutionary Function of Shame (2nd Stage/Signature Center)
Feb. 13--Redwood (Nederlander)
Feb. 20--Liberation (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
Feb. 25--Curse of the Starving Class (The New Group/Signature Center)
Feb. 26--The Great Privation (Playwrights Horizons)
Feb. 27--Dakar 2000 (MTC/City Center Stage I)
Feb. 28--A Streetcar Named Desire (BAM) (Previews begin; opening TBA)
Spring 2025
March 5--Sumo (Ma-Yi Theater/Public)
March 6--Deep Blue Sound (Clubbed Thumb/Public)
March 10--Ghosts (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)
March 10--The Jonathan Larsen Project (Orpheum)
March 17--Purpose (2nd Stage/Hayes)
March 18--Vanya (Lucille Lortel)
March 19--Buena Vista Social Club (Schoenfeld)
March 19--We Had a World (MTC/City Center Stage II)
March 20--Operation Mincemeat (Golden)
March 23--Othello (Barrymore)
March 24--Wine in the Wilderness (CSC)
March 26--The Cherry Orchard (Donmar Warehouse/St. Ann's Warehouse)
March 27--The Picture of Dorian Gray (Music Box)
March 30--The Swamp Dwellers (TFANA/Polonsky Shakespeare Center)
March 31--Glengarry Glen Ross (Palace)
April 2--Lortel Award nominations announced
April 3--Good Night and Good Luck (Winter Garden)
April 5--BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical (Broadhurst)
April 6--The Last Five Years (Hudson)
April 8--Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman)
April 10--Smash (Imperial)
April 14--John Proctor Is the Villain (Booth)
April 17--Bowl EP (Vineyard Theater/National Black Theater)
April 21--Floyd Collins (LCT/Vivian Beaumont)
April 22--Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Marquis)
April 23--Just in Time (Circle in the Square)
April 24--Pirates: The Penzance Musical (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)
April 27--Real Women Have Curves (James Earl Jones)
April 27--Dead Outlaw (Longacre)
April 28--Outer Critics Circle nominations announced
April--Threepenny Opera (BAM/St. Ann's Warehouse)
April--Macbeth in Stride (BAM)
May 1--Tony Nominations announced
May 4--Lortel Awards (NYU Skirball)
May 12--Outer Critics Circle Award winners announced
May 14--Lunar Eclipse (Second Stage/Signature Center) (Previews begin, opening TBA)
May 20--Goddess (Public Theater)
May 22--Outer Critics Circle Awards ceremony
May--Bus Stop (CSC/NAATCO/Transport Group)
June 2--Theater World Awards (Theater TBA)
June 8--Tony Awards (Radio City Music Hall)
June 24--Trophy Boys (MCC Theater)
Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp. (Public)
Hold Me in the Water (Playwrights Horizons)
The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse (New Group/Signature Center)
Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole (NYTW)
2025
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Sugar Daddy
Summer 2025
Twelfth Night (Public Theater/Delacorte)
2025-26
The Queen of Versailles
Fall 2025
Initiative (Public)
The Seat of Our Pants (Public)
Waiting for Godot
2026
Hello, I'm Dolly
Spring 2026
The Lost Boys (Palace)
Future--Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beaches the Musical; Beat Street; Black Orpheus; 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; 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; Working Girl.
2024-25 Broadway Season Breakdown
New Plays
All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich
Cult of Love
Good Night and Good Luck
The Hills of California
Job
John Proctor Is the Villain
Left on Tenth
MCNEAL
Oh, Mary!
Purpose
The Roommate
Stranger Things: The First Shadow
New Musicals
Boop! The Betty Boop Musical
Buena Vista Social Club
Dead Outlaw
Death Becomes Her
Just in Time
Maybe Happy Ending
Operation Mincemeat
Real Women Have Curves
Redwood
Smash
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
Swept Away
Tammy Faye
A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical
Play Revivals
English
Eureka Day
Glengarry Glen Ross
Home
Othello
Our Town
Romeo and Juliet
Yellow Face
Musical Revivals
Elf the Musical
Floyd Collins
Gypsy
The Last Five Years
Once Upon a Mattress
Penzance! The Pirate Musical
Sunset Boulevard
Solos/Specialties
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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