Our senior year of high school is often one to remember.

No matter what our experience in school, somehow the music, movies, fashion and overall vibe of that particular time in our lives seems to just stick.

For me, the movie I remember most was The Lost Boys. Hard rockin’ vampires, kick ass adolescent vampire hunters, and the real hero of the story….Grandpa!

“One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach: all the damn vampires.”

Not the mention the soundtrack. When you’re into the edgy rock and punk of the 80s, this was the coolest thing when you’re an angsty 80s teen who doesn’t realize how good we all had it.

Oh, yeah. and don’t forget this scene:

Gotta love Tim Capello, who is still out there doin’ his sax thing.

And now, a teaser for a new adaptation of The Lost Boys has been released: The Lost Boys: A New Musical.

This is not the first of my favorite 80s horror to get a musical adaption. A rock musical for The Evil Dead was created in 2003 and later made it to Off-Broadway. That one was a deliberate comedy geared towards fans. Then, there’s Beetlejuice: The Musical that hit in 2018. I haven’t seen it yet, but it is apparently doing pretty good. I don’t want to see it, because I loved the original so much.

Yet, The Lost Boys was such a cult favorite, such a perfect representation of the 80s. I’m not sure I want it messed with. What I know it, a pop trio called The Rescues is doing the original score. Hopefully some of the music that shaped the original will still be part of it. The book is by actors David Hornsby and Chris Hock, and three veteran actors, Patrick Wilson, James Carpinello and Marcus Chait have thrown their support behind it as producers.

Does any of this mean anything? Well, if they don’t capture the spirit of the original film, I don’t care who does it. The Lost Boys was a horror and comedy favorite of an entire generation, and no sequel (there have been two), adaptation or reboot will ever come close to Keifer and “The Coreys”, or to “Cry Little Sister” and Echo and the Bunnymen’s “People Are Strange” cover.

Nothing will come close to that weird heavy metal and dark wave, punk rock and comic geek celebration of Gen X which was and is The Lost Boys. I have no idea if the musical is being faithful to the story or pulling a “made for modern audiences” bait and switch that so common today. I wish the team behind the musical well, and will just have to wait and see.

In the meantime, enjoy the original again, because this the The Lost Boys, and it will never lose it’s cool…never grow old…never die: