Gary Barlow’s musical Finding Neverland sets its sights on a West End theatre
Finding Neverland is the Broadway musical written by Gary Barlow that transferred to the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York in March 2015 from Massachusetts.
Finding Neverland is an original musical that tells the tale of how Peter became Pan and is based on the Oscar winning film of the same name.
The show is expected to transfer to London’s West End either later this year or more likely in the Spring of 2017. The London Palladium has been ruled out as a venue, so the most likely theatre is the Theatre Royal Drury Lane now that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has announced that it will be closing sometime this year.
Finding Neverland has music and lyrics by Take That’s Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy. Gary Barlow has contributed 22 new songs with a few songs from the original composers.
Inspired by the 2004 film Finding Neverland, the musical on Broadway has a star studded cast including Glee’s Matthew Morrison, in the role of J. M. Barrie, Kelsey Grammer as Charles Frohman and Laura Michelle Kelly starring as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies.
The show follows playwright and Peter Pan author, J.M. Barrie, as he summons the courage to become a writer and the man he yearns to be. He finds the inspiration he is missing when he meets the beautiful widow Sylvia and her four young sons: Jack, George, Michael and Peter.
Captivated by the boys escapades, Barrie invents the magical world of Neverland and writes a play like no other before, Barrie himself has discovered when you believe, you can fly and thus the story of Peter Pan was born.
The show itself is packed with visual treats, great songs and plenty of laughs. It’s a show for all the family, a story about the power of imagination and spectacular proof that you never really have to grow up.
Choreography is supplied by The Cirque du Soliel’s three-time Emmy award winner Mia Michaels and the book written by James Graham.
Tickets for Neverland the musical in London will be available from showsinlondon.ukds.co
