THEATER: All The Moving Parts

The Lost Boys, based on the 1987 Joel Schumacher cult film, has arrived on Broadway with twelve Tony nominations, the most of any musical this season. Patrick Pacheco sits down with the artists behind it, beginning with director Michael Arden and scenic designer Dane Laffrey, the team whose collaboration on Maybe Happy Ending won the Tony Award for Best Musical. They discuss why an "impossible" adaptation was exactly what drew them in, how they balanced horror, comedy, romance, and family drama without ever letting the audience feel safe, and how they engineered a three-story set so packed it comes down to the quarter inch. Arden and Laffrey trace the show's deeper currents too: the chosen-family theme set against Reagan-era ideas of the family, the abusive father invented for the stage, the inverted boy-band innocence of the vampires, and the act of faith it took to open on Broadway with no out-of-town tryout. Then Pacheco talks with Ali Louis Bourzgui, the Tony-nominated actor breaking Broadway's vampire curse as David, the charismatic and terrifying leader of the pack. Bourzgui opens up about building David from Bowie, Tim Curry, and Anne Rice, the loneliness buried beneath immortality, the queerness and danger he plays in "my blood is in your veins," and how his Moroccan and Irish-Italian upbringing, his Muslim faith, and his activism shape the artist he is becoming.

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Recording Date: 05/18/2026 First Air Date: 06/05/2026

Guest List:
Michael Arden, Director, The Lost Boys
Ali Louis Bourzgui, Actor, The Lost Boys
Dane Laffrey, Scenic Designer, The Lost Boys

On THEATER: All the Moving Parts, host Patrick Pacheco looks beyond the spotlight at the passionate and unheralded creative talents that are critical to the theatrical experience. From costumer designers to dramaturges and everything in between, Patrick looks at all the moving parts of a Broadway production.

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Patrick Pacheco hosts a special one-hour edition of Theater: All the Moving Parts devoted to the 2026 Tony Award nominations. Joined by theatre journalists and critics Janice Simpson, Adam Feldman, Margaret Hall, and Zachary Stewart, the panel breaks down the season’s biggest surprises, standout productions, likely frontrunners, and the races that could still go either way. From major snubs to bold predictions for Broadway’s biggest night, the conversation offers sharp insight and spirited debate on the shows and artists shaping this year’s Tony Awards race.

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Recording Date: 05/06/2026 First Air Date: 05/22/2026

Guest List:
Adam Feldman, Theatre Editor and Chief Reviewer, TimeOut New York
Margaret Hall, Theatre Historian, Playbill
Janice Simpson, Theater Journalist
Zachary Stewart, Chief Critic, TheaterMania

On THEATER: All the Moving Parts, host Patrick Pacheco looks beyond the spotlight at the passionate and unheralded creative talents that are critical to the theatrical experience. From costumer designers to dramaturges and everything in between, Patrick looks at all the moving parts of a Broadway production.

Watch more at: https://tv.cuny.edu/homepage/show/theaterallthemovingparts/
THEATER: All the Moving Parts playlist https://bit.ly/2N5eNLs​

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Combine a rewrite of "Romeo and Juliet" with the songs of the top hitmaker Max Martin and what do you get: "& Juliet" on Broadway! Host Patrick Pacheco talks with the cast of the show and then with Bill Sherman, the musical supervisor. In this clip actor Betsy Wolfe, who plays Ann Hathaway, Shakespeare's wife in the musical, talks about the songs of Max Martin.

Watch the full episode at https://tv.cuny.edu/show/theaterallthemovingparts/PR2011745

On THEATER: All the Moving Parts, host Patrick Pacheco looks beyond the spotlight at the passionate and unheralded creative talents that are critical to the theatrical experience. From costumer designers to dramaturges and everything in between, Patrick looks at all the moving parts of a Broadway production.

Watch more at: https://tv.cuny.edu/homepage/show/theaterallthemovingparts/

THEATER: All the Moving Parts playlist https://bit.ly/2N5eNLs​

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In this episode of “THEATER: All the Moving Parts,” host Patrick Pacheco welcomes master lighting designer and 6-time Tony Award winner Natasha Katz. For the
2022 Tony Nominations, she received a nomination for Lighting Design for a Musical for "MJ, the Musical", which received 10 nominations. In this clip, she talks about how she designed the lighting for the Michael Jackson character in "MJ, the Musical".

Watch the full episode: https://tv.cuny.edu/show/theaterallthemovingparts/PR2010837

On THEATER: All the Moving Parts, host Patrick Pacheco looks beyond the spotlight at the passionate and unheralded creative talents that are critical to the theatrical experience. From costumer designers to dramaturges and everything in between, Patrick looks at all the moving parts of a Broadway production.

Watch more at: https://tv.cuny.edu/show/theaterallthemovingparts/

THEATER: All the Moving Parts playlist https://bit.ly/2N5eNLs

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