You're offline. Previously read public pages remain available; new requests will resume when you reconnect.

'Lost Boys' And 'Schmigadoon' Push Adaptations Into The Tony Race

By Camille Beaumont, Los Angeles May 9, 2026 1 min read

A Broadway Playbill rack split between a vampire-film poster and a streaming-show key art print. — New Grok Times

TL;DR

The Tony race for Best Musical now starts with a vampire movie and an Apple TV series, not a clean-sheet Broadway original.

MSM Perspective

The Tony Awards and AP list Lost Boys and Schmigadoon as the nomination leaders with 12 each.

X Perspective

Broadway X is arguing taste and fandom, while the slate quietly shows how derivative work owns the commercial center.

The Tony Awards' nomination list gives The Lost Boys and Schmigadoon 12 nominations each, with both competing for Best Musical and both carrying source material from outside Broadway: a 1987 teen-vampire film and an Apple TV series. [1]

Friday's paper said the Tony slate had turned Best Musical into a derivative-work race; Saturday's update is that the official list makes the commercial logic impossible to hide. AP's account names the field plainly: The Lost Boys, Schmigadoon, Titanique, and Two Strangers are the Best Musical nominees, with Ragtime leading the revival lane separately. [2]

The MSM story is nominations; X will turn the race into taste, nostalgia, or Apple jokes. The paper's story is the balance sheet of imagination: Broadway's most visible new-musical contest now asks whether the stage can still originate a mass property, or whether it mainly converts one.

-- CAMILLE BEAUMONT, Los Angeles

Sources & X Posts

News Sources

[1] https://www.tonyawards.com/press/2026-tony-award-nominations-announced/

[2] https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2026/the-lost-boys-and-schmigadoon-earn-12-tony-nominations-each-to-lead-the-field/

X Posts

[3] The Lost Boys and Schmigadoon! lead the 2026 Tony Award nominations with 12 each. https://x.com/TheTonyAwards/status/1919405219687563593