Finding Neverland

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Our number six show on the 2027 Broadway on the Brazos season is Finding Neverland.

Finding Neverland.

Yeah.

Throw that paper.

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... uh, and, uh, that he met through, through their mother, and he was inspired to write, uh, Peter Pan.

Uh, and so Finding Neverland is the story of, of J.M. Barrie writing Peter Pan.

In this gothic horror story, an anthropologist conducts an unusual research project in a notorious haunted house, causing a crisis that awakens supernatural forces.

And on the Albany Civic Theater call board, auditions for the classic courtroom drama Twelve Angry Jurors, directed by Josh Anderson, happen 7 p.m. October 26th through 28th, and that's followed by auditions on November 2nd through 4th at 7 p.m. for Finding Neverland, directed by Miranda Keeling.

For show information, tickets, and audition details, go to albanycivic.org and Facebook.

At the Majestic Theatre in Corvallis, Miss Holmes by Christopher M. Walsh, based on characters by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, continues through October 4th at the Majestic.

No, no, no, not now.

At the time I did Finding Neverland was my Broadway debut and she choreographed that.

And so I had a relationship.

Yeah.

And the day I signed with that person, they said, oh, anything special to note about you that we should really know? And I was like, well, I studied modern dance.

So anything contemporary, I'm really right for.

And I had gone to the open call, RE Answers for Dancers for Finding Neverland.

And I was not seen because I was non-equity.

You know, boring, boring, boring, life, life, life.

And then cats popped up in my life again when I was in Finding Neverland.

And it was all this, it was like the hottest buzz backstage buzz.

It was like, Oh my God, did you hear cats is coming back to Broadway? Oh my God.

And I was like, I'm going to be in this show.

I was determined.

Because I also – Finding Neverland was my debut.

We had been – I had done the out-of-town – I had done the workshop, the out-of-town run, and then we were like in the thick of the run when Cats was like – starting to buzz about like people are starting to get auditions.

They always do.

And many of these shows actually have their fans, including Finding Neverland, a musical scored by Gary Barlow.

This was first produced here in the UK.

It was then reworked for American productions regionally, then on Broadway.

I have always thought, having seen the film upon which it's based, that a Gary Barlow score, and he has quite a clear character that comes through in his music, is somewhat at odds tonally with the kind of earnest and thoughtful, meaningful story that they're trying to tell here, especially in how it was presented on Broadway.

But I may get a chance to experience this one fully, because Gary Barlow is constantly trying to get this staged again here in London.

So we may be due a return of Finding Neverland before too long.

And one which has already returned after its own dubious Broadway run, and this is very timely because I am seeing it in a matter of days, is Sting's musical, The Last Ship.