We know. You can’t have a post-credits scene for a Broadway show, because they don’t have credits — they have curtain calls. But what else are we to call it when, after the cast of the 12-time Tony–nominated The Lost Boys: A New Musical takes to the stage for their curtain call, the lights drop for one more scene?
“We call it a tag,” The Lost Boys director/co-lighting designer Michael Arden told Mashable in an interview over Zoom. “But it is a post-credit[s] scene.”
The two-time Tony–winning director is up for Best Director of a Musical and —alongside Jen Schriever — Best Lighting Design of a Musical this Sunday at the 79th Annual Tony Awards. So, as Mashable’s Entertainment Editor, I sat down to delve into how Arden and company adapted Joel Schumacher’s 1987 cult classic into a Broadway musical that has critics (this one included) raving. We talked about the changes from the movie, the expanded queer representation, and, of course, flying vampires.
Then, I had to ask about the scene that urges audiences to leave not on the high of a cheery curtain call, but on the dizzying surprise of what comes after.
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