While the show has been guided by the brilliant film mogul Harvey Weinstein and directed with care, it never really takes flight or finds its true voice.
Lunt-Fontanne Theater, New YorkHarvey Weinstein has spent millions trying to make a film about Peter Pan's author fly on stage " but though the child stars shine, the music is leaden Continu…
Forget that "Finding Neverland" is set in 1904 London and that Kelsey Grammer plays a theater producer rather than a pedantic shrink: The show muscles in a "Cheers" joke. Surprisingly,...
Finding Neverland, the new Broadway musical that tells the tale of how Peter became Pan — starring Matthew Morrison as famed author J.M. Barrie — officially opened April …
There’s not enough flying in “Finding Neverland” " metaphorical flying, that is, those giddy flights of wit and imagination that make us believe, if not in fairies, then a…
NEW YORK - Perhaps it's the cheating of mortality, or our wish to keep our children young, or maybe our fear of the inevitable ravages of time on our bodies and psyches. But there is, it see…
Provenance is a concept usually associated with art, not theater. Who, after all, owns a plot " or the history on which it is based? Still, the problem rears up in several ways in Finding Ne…
The new Broadway musical Finding Neverland, starring Matthew Morrison, Kelsey Grammer and Laura Michelle Kelly, officially opens tonight, April 15, 2015 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre 205 West…
Is it pointless to pan Peter? Are we helpless in the face of the massive Peter Pander/Pandemic/Pandemonium (pick your Peter Pan pun.) Shortly after Peter and the Starcatcher and Peter Pan Li…
Finding Neverland flies. Occasionally it even soars. The miracle is that the darned thing not only got off the ground, but that this musical prequel to the Peter Pan story arrives on Broa…
Is it pointless to pan Peter? Are we helpless in the face of the massive Peter Pander/Pandemic/Pandemonium (pick your Peter Pan pun.) Shortly after “Peter and the Starcatcher” an…
NEW YORK (AP) -- At a recent performance on Broadway of "Finding Neverland," one young boy showed up in a very green Peter Pan costume and accessorized it with cowboy boots. It was an ap…
“Finding Neverland” arrives tonight on Broadway loaded for Tony nominations and overflowing with charm. It’s also Harvey Weinstein’s debut as a modern Categories:
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Theatre obeys its own unique science, and it's not one that those in the "outside world" will able to recognize or even understand. Take, for example, the small matter of flying.
Finding Neverland is based on the true story of the relationship between author J.M. Barrie and the family that inspired him to create Peter Pan. Matthew Morrison, Laura Michelle Kelly and K…
