Michael Arden

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, it was...

People and people and people and people.

How many Tonys did you win?

I think it won six maybe.

I don't know.

Yeah.

You won best director, won best film, best show, best musical.

Best score, best book, best scenic design.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Many of your productions explore people existing between worlds, hearing and deaf communities, insiders and outsiders, belonging and isolation.

Your latest Broadway play, The Lost Boys, feels connected to that lineage.

What drew you towards this particular story?

I...

Really wanted to do something scary or that could be scary that could then lead to an emotional catharsis and love.

I often think about how fear and love are like shadow and light and to explore something about light and darkness and tell a family story with such like outrageously big themes that surround it was really exciting to me and to like

I wanted to take people on like an epic roller coaster of a journey.

I mean, I think the film is so interesting.

And it was something I had never seen the film before I got asked about working on it.