Shoshana Bean brings a powerful vocal style to Broadway and now performs as Lucy in The Lost Boys, a 12-time Tony-nominated musical based on the 1987 vampire comedy. Lucy is a recently divorced mother of teenage sons who leaves an abusive relationship and begins again in a new town. In Act 2, Bean performs “Wild,” an anthem where Lucy and her love interest Max look back on earlier freedom and possibility. Bean connects the song to aging, describing how responsibilities can chip away at ferocity and fearlessness. She also uses the number to reclaim lost wildness and to challenge rules that restrict what women can be and do.
"Bean is the show's emotional anchor as Lucy, the recently divorced mom of teenage sons Michael (LJ Benet) and Sam (Benjamin Pajak), who starts a new life in a new town after leaving an abusive relationship."
"In her rousing Act 2 anthem "Wild," which is premiering exclusively on usatoday.com, Lucy and her burgeoning love interest, Max (Paul Alexander Nolan), reflect on their carefree younger years when the world was full of possibility. For Bean, 48, it's "easy" to relate to the song."
""I'm not a mother reclaiming my lost independence," Bean says. "But at the stage I am in life, there's pieces of my own ferocity ‒ of my own wild abandon, of my own fearlessness ‒ that life just slowly chips away. You get to be my age, and you look back like, 'Where did she go?' It's been really fun to use that song as a vessel every night for that reclamation.""
""I'm also like, 'Is this all that there is for women my age? Is this where they see us, and what they'll allow us to do and be?'" Bean says. "That's what the song is for me: What are the rules for women? Are we allowed to hold onto our wild?""
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