FINDING NEVERLAND headed to the West End in 2025?
FINDING NEVERLAND headed to the West End in 2025?
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#1FINDING NEVERLAND headed to the West End in 2025?
Posted: 5/5/24 at 6:56pm
https://stageberry.com/finding-neverland-musical-west-end/?
However Gary let slip the show is set for a West End bow in “summer 2025”.
He told Amy Hart on her P&O Cruises Official Podcast: “I spent five years of my life writing that musical. It was a lot of blood sweat and tears but it was worth it. It was absolutely wonderful.”
Speaking previously in 2022, Gary told Daily Mail’s Baz Bamigboye that a brand new production was in the works with an updated book and songs.
“It’s a new show,” he teased.
ErmengardeStopSniveling
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
#2FINDING NEVERLAND headed to the West End in 2025?
Posted: 5/5/24 at 8:32pm
So London will finally learn "the story of how PETER became PAN"?!
#3FINDING NEVERLAND headed to the West End in 2025?
Posted: 5/5/24 at 8:35pmIt’s a shame they felt the need to rewrite it again. I thought the tour version finally got it just right.
ErmengardeStopSniveling
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
#4FINDING NEVERLAND headed to the West End in 2025?
Posted: 5/5/24 at 8:37pm
CATSNYrevival said: "It’s a shame they felt the need to rewrite it again. I thought the tour version finally got it just right."
Did it change much for the tour? I only saw the A.R.T. and Broadway versions, which were both unremarkable and overblown.
#5FINDING NEVERLAND headed to the West End in 2025?
Posted: 5/5/24 at 9:16pm
If this doesn’t go into the Duke of York’s Theatre, it would just be a real shame. Curious to see an updated version of it, if it happens.
#6FINDING NEVERLAND headed to the West End in 2025?
Posted: 5/5/24 at 9:18pm
We’re coming up on ten years since the Broadway production opened. Man, I feel old.
Oh look, a bibu!
#7FINDING NEVERLAND headed to the West End in 2025?
Posted: 5/5/24 at 9:35pm
ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "CATSNYrevival said: "It’s a shame they felt the need to rewrite it again. I thought the tour version finally got it just right."
Did it change much for the tour? I only saw the A.R.T. and Broadway versions, which were both unremarkable and overblown."
I just remember the opening being streamlined. There was a new opening number, they added "My Imagination" and cut "The Pirates of Kensington."
#8FINDING NEVERLAND headed to the West End in 2025?
Posted: 5/6/24 at 5:21am
The original score that was written for this by the Grey Garden's team, Scott Frankel (music) and Michael Korie (lyrics), was it totally scrapped, or are there still some bits from that in the current version?
#9FINDING NEVERLAND headed to the West End in 2025?
Posted: 5/6/24 at 6:22am
TBFL said: "The original score that was written for this by the Grey Garden's team, Scott Frankel (music) and Michael Korie (lyrics), was it totally scrapped, or are there still some bits from that in the current version?"
As far as I understand it, totally scrapped.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#10FINDING NEVERLAND headed to the West End in 2025?
Posted: 5/6/24 at 8:23am
Ouch. I can only imagine how long it toiok them to get to that point, do 1 production in Leicester and then just have it all binned. You kinda wonder how it got to that point, surely the production team had heard the music before then
#11FINDING NEVERLAND headed to the West End in 2025?
Posted: 5/6/24 at 9:53am
Who owns the rights to this? Is it because Harvey is outta jail, he’s doing it in London now?? I didn’t realize the tour got stopped because of Covid.
#12FINDING NEVERLAND headed to the West End in 2025?
Posted: 5/6/24 at 9:55am
That final scene with the whirlwind of gold glitter is still burned into my memory. The rest of the show not so much. That scene stunning in its simplicity.
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
Tazber's: Reply to
Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian
ErmengardeStopSniveling
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
#13FINDING NEVERLAND headed to the West End in 2025?
Posted: 5/6/24 at 10:02am
Broadway Flash said: "Who owns the rights to this? Is it because Harvey is outta jail, he’s doing it in London now?? I didn’t realize the tour got stopped because of Covid."
Harvey Weinstein is not out of jail. He is still serving a 16-year sentence for crimes committed in California, and will be re-tried this fall in New York.
He is also no longer employed by TWC.
OhHiii
Broadway Star Joined: 4/30/16
#14FINDING NEVERLAND headed to the West End in 2025?
Posted: 5/6/24 at 10:03am
Broadway Flash said: "Who owns the rights to this? Is it because Harvey is outta jail, he’s doing it in London now?? I didn’t realize the tour got stopped because of Covid."
lol Harvey is still rotting in an LA prison. Only his NYC conviction was overturned. He likely has no say any longer on licensing for this.
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#15FINDING NEVERLAND headed to the West End in 2025?
Posted: 5/6/24 at 10:11am
Wonder why this show is such a struggle. Never seen the movie but I'd imagine it can't be that hard to adapt. I didn't mind the Broadway version, but I felt like the staging looked rather cheap. That final image is rather beautiful, but I just remember the rest of the show being very blue and lots of cheap cardboard cutouts.
ErmengardeStopSniveling
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
#16FINDING NEVERLAND headed to the West End in 2025?
Posted: 5/6/24 at 10:13am
TBFL said: "Ouch. I can only imagine how long it toiok them to get to that point, do 1 production in Leicester and then just have it all binned. You kinda wonder how it got to that point, surely the production team had heard the music before then"
It got to that point because Harvey Weinstein had never lead-produced a musical (the least of his problems!), didn't like what he saw in London, and had the authority to scrap the whole creative team and start from page one.
Commercially speaking, Harvey's instincts may have been correct...I didn't like the show, and I have no doubt Frankel & Korie wrote a lovely score, but Gary Barlow's score was probably more commercial and poppy than what Frankel & Korie (who have never written a commercial hit) would have written.
