From Santa Carla to Broadway: How the Lost Boys Cast Reimagined a 1987 Cult Classic

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In the 1987 film, Dianne Wiest played Lucy Emerson as a gentle, somewhat naive divorcee trying to keep her family afloat between dates with a suspicious video store owner. On stage, Shoshana Bean elevates Lucy into the show’s emotional engine. Bean brings her signature vocal power to several original blues-rock numbers, painting Lucy as a fiercely protective mother wrestling with isolation and economic survival.

Beside her, LJ Benet captures the frantic, comic-book-fueled skepticism of younger brother Sam Emerson, originally played by the late Corey Haim. Benet’s comic timing provides the show with necessary breath between jump scares and aerial skirmishes. Meanwhile, Maria Wirries offers a radically empowered take on Star, the half-vampire love interest originated by Jami Gertz. In Wirries' hands, Star is no longer an ornamental damsel drifting between Michael and David; she is a strategic survivor clawing for her own humanity, given vocal highlights that match Bourzgui blow for blow.