Video: 'Vampires Are Back,' Says the Broadway Cast of The Lost Boys

The team behind the new musical are ready to welcome audiences into their den of discovery.

March 26, 2026 By Margaret Hall, Jeffrey Vizcaíno

Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It's fun to be a vampire, and the Broadway cast of The Lost Boys are soaking up every second of the experience.

The cast of the brand-new musical caught up with Playbill shortly before beginning previews at the Palace Theatre March 27, and the collective were roaring with pathos (and rock 'n' roll enthusiasm).

"I used to like, listen to Green Day all the time, Gorillaz, Arctic Monkeys," star Ali Louis Bourzgui (The Who's Tommy) shares, referring to the show's score with a tight lipped smile. "to slip into an angsty teenager that's also a glam rock vampire..." he shrugs, eyes flitting around the rehearsal room with excitement. "We're living the dream."

The Lost Boys uses vampirism to explore the physical transformation, sexual awakening, and identity experimentation of a teenager's coming of age. When the brotherly duo of Michael and Sam move to the fictional town of Santa Carla, California with their single mother, they inadvertently end up in the crosshairs of a group of rock-and-roll rebel vampires and adolescent vampire hunters—you know, the normal teenage pitfalls.

READ: Will The Lost Boys Break Broadway's Vampire Musical Curse?

In the video above, Santa Carla's many residents peeled back the curtain on the musical, based on the 1987 film, with Playbill's Jeffrey Vizcaíno, giving audiences a taste of the sensory feast that awaits their arrival.

"They sent me a video of LJ [Benet] doing a song from the show and I was like, what?!" Shoshana Bean laughs, gesticulating wildly as she reflects on the moment she knew she had to play Michael and Sam's mother Lucy. "Whatever that is, I want to be in the room with that!"

"Vampires, as a genre, are a great way to reflect the society we're in now," shares the show's book writer David Hornsby "as well as the struggles that you know in this particular story teenagers go through. Stepping into the light as opposed to the darkness. It was an an apt metaphor."

~~Sun~~light aside, star LJ Benet is clear that glimmering appeal of the undead is ornamental to the beating heart of the show, which is: "Where [do] you belong? This idea of 'where do I fit in' and 'what puzzle piece am I going to mesh with?' That's our show. That's our story. That's timeless."