Michael Arden

Thank you.

It's amazing.

I mean, what's the best part about this all is that The Lost Boys was just a divine collaboration.

Yeah.

In order to make magic on stage, every single element has to be working in perfect concert.

And so an acknowledgement of one department or one part of the show is such a compliment to the entire group of humans who made this.

I have two last questions for you.

The first one is this.

Theater asks strangers to sit together in darkness and collectively experience something unfolding in real time.

What feels uniquely possible inside that exchange from your perspective?

I think the possibility of recalibration, of change, of reexamination, of literally changing the chemistry of humanity within the walls of the theater is possible because of it.

Because we are breathing the same air.

We are actually feeling the vibrations.

This magical thing happens where...

When actors on stage remember a thought created by an emotion of a writer, they speak an invisible task into the air.

It travels magically through the air and through speakers and to the eyes and ears of the audience who then go in their mind, then touch their heart, and then they leave and they change because of it.

It's like really crazy.

Yeah.

It's really magical.

The sort of sound and the experience sort of reverberates through us and off us and then onto the other people that are around us.