The lost boys: michael arden's vampire adventure comes to broadway

Four days before the opening of The Lost Boys on Broadway, director Michael Arden recalls the wonder he felt on first encountering The Phantom of the Opera or Jesus Christ Superstar—musicals that took audience experience as seriously as artistic quality. His work on Lost Boys, for which he is also a co-producer and lighting co-designer, certainly follows in those giants' footsteps; it is also, somehow, an even more thrilling sensorial spectacle than Maybe Happy Ending, the innovatively tech-heavy musical that earned him his second Tony Award last season.

From high school to high-profile productions

Over a midweek martini at Julius' bar in the West Village, he shares that he designed the lighting for his high school's production of Superstar.