‘The Outsiders’ Broadway review: Warring teens tug at the heart in one of the season’s best new musicals

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the musical “The Outsiders,” which opened Thursday night at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, would include a song called “Stay Gold,” I laughed.Wouldn’t you?

The words “Stay gold, Ponyboy,” from author S.E. Hinton’s 1967 young adult novel about warring Oklahoma gangs, have achieved an almost “Here’s looking at you, kid” or “I am your father” cultural status.

Made even more famous by Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 movie, the old phrase has been repeated so much over the decades that its meaning has mostly given way to cheesiness and eye-rolls.And then the wonderful Sky Lakota-Lynch, as Johnny Cade, began to sing it.“Finding beauty in the fold is the only way to keep from growing old.

My friend, stay gold,” goes the number by Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance of the band Jamestown Revival and Justin Levine.I wasn’t laughing anymore.