The Lost Boys Cast Teach Us Vampire Slaying

Hailey Lewis Borskey, Leslie Robbins, Young Hollywood Broadway, New York City. We're winning. Did not plan that.

No, I sent you a message.

You did.

Can vampires do that?

Oh yeah. You can do so many things. You can dance, you can act, you can sing, you can fly.

Of course we are talking about The Lost Boys, but I left out a title of yours that is ridiculously important. Tony award winner.

Thank you.

Does it roll up your tongue easily?

Yes. I still can't really process it. I think it'll take like probably two full years.

Walk me through what it feels like the next day showing up to this theater knowing that you won the Tony.

Oh man, that was a crazy experience. I mean, Shahana won too. And then we won a bunch for the show in general. Four. Yeah. So it was just amazing to, um, come to work the next day and we did this fun thing where we put, we put Tonys on different parts of the set during the show as like little Easter eggs that people could find it. So that was fun. The whole night was a real celebration of everyone in the cast, like, the show doesn't exist without everybody and my character isn't cool unless the rest of the cast tells you that and like we all built this thing together. It it felt like we were really part of a sporting event the next day.

Now, you're waving your hands.

Oh, I know. I got the, the nail here. Can we do a close-up of what's happening here? These were acrylics and right now we actually have like they're starting to, they're starting to raise. But these are real, these are real, these are real.

Okay, so right now, Times Square Broadway, this is what everyone sees on the outside.

Yeah.

Now, we're going behind the scenes.

Oh yeah. Let's do it.

Yeah, let's do it. Okay, so we're inside the Palace Theater right now. What's a day in the life of a Tony Award winner when they enter for work?

I usually come in and I try this this building is kind of separated like all the departments are a little separated. So I try if I can to make like eye contact and contact with people. So I'll talk to Stanley or Irene here at stage door real quick. Go in. Usually we get our like if people have left gifts and we haven't been able to stage door the night before, there's usually some like little things that the fans leave.

I did see all of the fans out there waiting for a glimpse of you. Does that get old ever? Or is it still new and fresh?

No, it's so sweet and and and I I I have a deep appreciation for the, um, the support I have and the support we have and I have personally experienced that people understand respectful boundaries to a certain point. So it's like if I'm going into work, I'm like we can take a quick photo but then it's like, you know, I gotta go and do my thing and they understand that.

All right, so let's see what you do.

Yeah, okay. Like I think what people don't see backstage is that it's just stairs after stairs after stairs.

Ooh, this is exciting. Stop.

Yeah. Oh my goodness. This is the green room. So you have like everyone You can even hear people playing music in there. Wardrobe. I mean, just even like what you're passing by.

I know. I know. Cuz it's like every day for me. I forget how amazing this is. Look at this wardrobe. Can I touch it? I mean, look at the studs.

Yeah, the detail is incredible. This is my room. I try to keep it very warm. I have a bunch of my, a bunch of fan art I've received here. A bunch of fan art here too. But I this is something I made in this scene where we're hanging upside down. So I took Polaroids of all the guys and we're all like hanging upside down on my door and if you flip it then it's like us right side up.

I have to come in here. This is the sexiest, coolest, most David-esque dressing room I think I would have expected. This is amazing.

I wanted it to be a combo of kind of like, yeah, the vampire energy but also like the warm, earthy Zen vibe that This is sort of like similar to like what I kind of decorate my apartment like. I listen to a lot of music, so I made this whole like record wall over here and I have some of my favorite records here and then I have a bunch more over here and I brought a record player so at any time I'm in here warming up, I just throw on a record that feels right that day. I also have my guitar here.

Can you play, can you play like something? Just

Oh, shoot. Yeah, sure. I mean, I'll just I mean, I I mean, there's a cool story, I guess. I don't know if this is even in tune, but um

I love cool stories.

There was a song, I mean, everyone knows it now because it's kind of become this whole um little Easter egg, but we used to have a song called Brother in the show, which is now a bonus track on the album because the fans loved it so much and we love it so much. Um but in that number in the show, I used to play the song. Like I I used to like it was one of those moments where you know, I'm the lead singer but just for that song I picked up a guitar and got to play along and um so that's the song that I know from the show. I don't

Hey, you don't even need a pick, right?

Oh, well, yeah, I mean this is good for like finger picking. If I wanna do that, but you imagine. Yeah, it's a little something.

Kiefer Sutherland. He's a producer on this show. As he should be cuz if he wasn't a part of it, that would be weird. What's it like stepping into David, who Kiefer made just the role? Iconic in the '80s. How far are you willing to go, Michael?

Kiefer came to see the first workshop we did and he got to see that and then immediately wanted to be a producer. Because I think he recognizes that like you wanted to like dive deeper into the characters and how cool would it be to create a character and then like years later you see that character with like more to do and you get to see like more in the inner world of that character where like Kiefer really only didn't have that much time in the movie. Like he's who he like sticks in your brain, but when you go back and watch the movie, he's really not in all that much of it and he only has a few lines.

Your voice is not David's. How did you even get it there?

You know, I've like always liked doing character voices and I've always worked on impressions or like how to change my voice. And so for this, I I started with like what Kiefer did and I kind of figured out a combo of like Kiefer's voice and my voice and then I started adding other things. I've had to kind of grow into them or like change something about myself in order to to meet the challenge, which has been fun.

I saw you backstage with Jordan Fisher at the Tonys. You guys, I saw the little piece you did and I just interviewed him at Moulin Rouge last year and when I saw you two together, I was like emotional just watching the two of you. I felt the community aspect. I get to be somehow a part of this. You're on a grander like scale community, which is what I know means the most to you and I kind of felt even a small part of that watching the two of you together. So.

Oh, he's the best. Yeah. And also like there's like a really sweet thing with the like the Orpheuses, like all of us who have played that role. There is like such a connection to that role that when we get to meet each other, there is already kind of like a an unspoken connection even through that role that means so much to us. So, yeah, and Jordan has always been an inspiration, so it was great to talk to him.

I love that. Okay, we have some friends of yours.

Yeah. Oh, it's this guy. It's him. He's the one who did it. No, it's this guy. This is the This is the vampire hunter right here and he he says he's my friend but I I don't really know.

So this is what it looks like when vampires hang out.

Yeah. Normally upside down, but yeah.

I know. I know. I saw the show. There's no words. I like mind boggling.

Thank you.

Can you recognize us without our?

Yeah, really. Um, let me go upside down. That would help. I can't.

You guys, you need to tidy up at all?

No. This is the this is the real. Yeah.

Okay, it's a dressing room for four guys and it looks like a typical dressing room for four guys.

Yeah.

Gentlemen, um this room is kind of fun and I'm just gonna stay here all night and while you're coming and going on stage, I'm just gonna stay because it's a fun place to be.

It is kind of the place to be. I mean, we're sort of central literally in the theater but we have gatherings, we play music in here. You know, we're friendly vampires, honestly, offstage.

Walk me through how you even get ready for a show. And especially when you have two shows a day. It's insane.

Well, right now we're about to go do our lift fight fall call where we run a fall from the bridge, which is a stunt in the show if you come and see it. We uh, we fall about what 16, 17 ft into uh darkness. So we have to run that and then, you know, we've got our like little PT setup over here with like foam roller, yoga blocks, some weights. And we just, you know, get the body loose.

Guys have a cult following. They're all outside.

They wait before the show, they're waiting after.

What would be surprising to your fans that like they can't see backstage about you guys?

We're a bunch of nerds. Second guest: Yeah.

Probably the best one.

I love that.

I mean, Dean gets in the shower 15 minutes before the show. Second guest: I don't know how he gets ready but so that's a surprise.

What about hair and makeup?

Oh yeah, it's all part. Second guest: He does.

15 minutes, shower, hair, makeup, wardrobe, done. Second guest: I don't know how.

I'm always stressed out about it personally. Second guest: I'm like feeling behind.

Did any of you just get offered the vampire part or did you have to go through callback after callback after callback?

Callback after callback. Second guest: This was I feel like this show was like, everyone wanted to be in there.

I mean, you listen to the music and you're like I gotta do this.

Okay, I'm hearing that you guys need to do your fight call.

Yeah.

Okay, you guys gotta go.

Thank you for being here.

I'm going to fight vampires now. Second guest: I'm gonna go.

Oh my gosh.

We'll watch out for you.

I'm gonna be a frog brother soon.

Oh.

Everybody, I'm gonna come get you guys.

I just left behind the scenes.

Now I'm in front of the scenes about to enter the theater because I'm meeting the Frog Brothers.

Little vampire slaying.

Hi.

Hi.

How are you guys?

You're Jennifer.

Amazing. Second guest: Thank you.

You guys were spot on.

You guys fight vampires.

So, is there a trick to surviving vampires?

You need some serious skill in order to do it, right?

Yes. Second guest: Yes.

Absolutely. Second guest: Yeah.

How'd you do it?

You know, we kill vampires all the time, you know, so it really starts with how you carry yourself.

You want to show that you're tough.

And a good way to do that.

Oh. Second guest: Ooh, I just had this line.

Having the right are you ready to defend Santa Carla?

I am ready to defend.

Are you ready to learn and fight these vampires you've never fought before?

I'm ready to like shut down some vamps.

Let's go.

Let's go. Second guest: Let's go.

Okay, I present you with your bandana.

Oh my goodness.

Like seeing inducted.

Step one is I would say check.

Now we gotta get some like fighting moves in you, you know, like, let's say it goes to hand-to-hand combat, like what are you gonna do if a vamp pulls up on you? Second guest: Salt water.

You know. Second guest: Holy water.

Yeah. Second guest: The holy water is really what it's gonna Holy water.

So this is a squirt gun.

Okay.

So when when you get like a a thing of garlic like this, it can be used many ways.

Aim for the torso.

Just swing it around, you know?

That's a good I have to give it a shot.

Yeah, give it a swing. Second guest: Yeah, I'll hold the squirt gun for you.

Yeah.

My eyes.

This is probably gonna be the most useful tool when it comes to slaying vampires.

This is called the stake.

If you can get a vamp right in the heart with a wooden stake, it's basically game over for them.

Are we going underhand or overhand?

Choose your best. Second guest: I guess it depends how the vamp is coming to you, right? Second guest: Because if he's flying down at you, you're gonna wanna go up, right? Second guest: But if he's, if he's sneaking up on you, you're gonna go, you're gonna wanna go down.

What a great.

See, as you can see, the angles, you know, yeah.

Okay, so he's flying cuz they're flying.

So he's flying at me.

He's flying at you.

I'm gonna go.

That's perfect. Second guest: That's perfect.

Okay, so we got the garlic, we got the stake. Second guest: The squirt gun.

With the holy water.

Okay, I think you're ready to become a certified vampire killer.

Yeah.

You just want it.

Yep. Second guest: Yep.

Get some shots in. Second guest: Yep.

Always good to practice. Second guest: Never know when you need a trick shot.

Okay, now you guys did like a dance uh move kind of thing in the show.

Ten Hut. Second guest: Then we hit the classic Karate Kid kick, right?

Right to the dome. Second guest: And then it's the uppercut.

Uppercut. Second guest: We're gonna defend.

The defense stance. Second guest: The defense stance.

Vampire. Second guest: We're gonna charge up all of our awesome frog brother power.

Yeah. Second guest: And then Sam's favorite move.

The push. Second guest: Yeah, that's pretty much got it.

That's our that's our technique. Second guest: And then they all die.

And then we salute you. Second guest: Honor serving the heal.

It's been an honor, the honor is all mine.