Finding Neverland is a musical with music and lyrics by Gary Barlow
and Eliot Kennedy and a book by James Graham adapted from the 1998
play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee and its 2004 film version
Finding Neverland. An early version of the musical made its world
premiere at the Curve Theatre in Leicester in 2012 with a book by
Allan Knee, music by Scott Frankel and lyrics by Michael Korie. A
reworked version with the current writing team making its world
premiere in 2014 at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Following completion of its Cambridge run, the
production transferred to Broadway in March 2015.After 17 months on
Broadway, the production of Finding Neverland closed on 21 August
2016, and began a US national tour in October 2016.On 6 February 2011,
La Jolla Playhouse, California, announced that they would produce a
new stage musical based on the film with the book by Allan Knee, score
by Scott Frankel (music) and Michael Korie (lyrics), and directed and
choreographed by Rob Ashford. A planned production at La Jolla
Playhouse was not held. A developmental reading was held in New York
on 31 March 2011, with Julian Ovenden, Kelli O'Hara, Tony Roberts,
Mary Beth Peil, Michael Cumpsty, and Meredith Patterson, directed by
Ashford. The adaptation had its world premiere on 22 September 2012 at
Curve in Leicester. Directed by Rob Ashford, it starred Julian Ovenden
as J.M Barrie and West End actress Rosalie Craig as Sylvia Llewelyn
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