‘The Lost Boys’ Musical Star Talks Teaming With Slash for ‘Have to Have You’ Single: ‘Absolutely Insane Solo’

Get acceptable to face the creatures of the nighttime successful Santa Clara again. Except this time, alternatively of nightflying to the strains of Echo and the Bunnymen’s screen of the Doors’ “People Are Strange” oregon Tim Cappello’s sax-tastic so-80s anthem “I Still Believe,” fans of the cult 1987 teen vampire play The Lost Boys tin look guardant to immoderate Slash successful the premix of biting, brooding and belting.

The Guns N’ Roses guitarist makes a cameo via a screaming solo connected “Have to Have You,” a chugging stone tune that helps marque up the soundtrack to the upcoming Broadway philharmonic remake of the Joel Schumacher-directed archetypal movie that starred Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, Jami Gertz, Keifer Sutherland, Jason Patric and Dianne Wiest.

The Lost Boys philharmonic is slated to deed the Palace Theatre connected Broadway successful precocious March featuring a publication by David Hornsby (It’s Always Sunny successful Philadelphia) and a people by the set the Rescues. The archetypal sensation of the musical’s people is the muscular “Have to Have You,” which is performed by the show’s vampires — Ali Louis Bourzgui (“David”), Maria Wirries (“Star”), Brian Flores (“Marko”), Sean Grandillo (“Dwayne”) and Dean Maupin (“Paul”), on with Slash, who rips a solo connected the opus that mixes 1980s hairsbreadth metallic vigor with a grunge-y underpinning.

“The producers reached retired a fewer months agone and had the large thought of releasing an EP, due to the fact that successful our mentation of the Lost Boys they are inactive a biker set but besides a band, Santa Clara’s biggest band, The Lost Boys,” Bourzugui, 26, tells Billboard of the thought of releasing an EP arsenic if the Lost Boys themselves were dropping caller music. The pack came successful and recorded the way written by the Rescues, which was some the archetypal opus Bourzgui ever heard by the L.A. rockers, arsenic good arsenic the tune helium auditioned for to onshore the pb role.

“And past they got freakin’ Slash to travel in!” Bourzgui says astir the excitement of getting the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame fable to grace the track. “We’re each lasting up and we’re screaming and jumping up and down,” helium adds astir the cast’s ecstatic effect to seeing the Slash footage, which helium contrasted with the perpetually chill guitarist’s demeanor.

“Slash is sitting down, truthful chill successful his seat and helium pulls retired his guitar and plays this perfectly insane solo, arsenic helium does, successful 1 oregon 2 takes and is like, ‘is that good?’ This incredible, mathematical, insane solo,” says Bourgzgui, who knows astir mixing theatre with stone acknowledgment to his award-winning Broadway debut successful the main relation successful Pete Townshend’s 2024 revival of <...