FINDING NEVERLAND to Follow Second Star to the Right for London Return

Broadway's Finding Neverland will officially be following the second star to the right and flying back to London in January 2017, as rumored over the weekend. The show's official website lists a winter 2017 bow in the West End.

No word yet on a venue, dates, or casting, though LES MISERABLES' Alfie Boe is allegedly up for the role of 'J.M. Barrie' when the show lands in London.

Tony Award nominee Tony Yazbeck (On The Town) is currently starring on Broadway through March 27th; no replacement for the spring has been announced.

FINDING NEVERLAND originated across the pond at the Curve Theatre in Leicester in 2012 before making its world premiere in 2014 at American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Mass., and eventually flying to the Great White Way.

The musical features music and lyrics by Gary Barlow (Take That) and Grammy winner Eliot Kennedy, book by Olivier Award nominee James Graham and choreography by Emmy Award winner Mia Michaels ("So You Think You Can Dance," Cirque du Soleil's Delirium).

FINDING NEVERLAND follows playwright J.M. Barrie as he summons the courage to become the writer -- and the man -- he yearns to be. Barrie finds the inspiration he's been missing when he meets the beautiful widow Sylvia and her four young sons: Jack, George, Michael and Peter. Delighted by the boys' hilarious escapades, Barrie conjures the magical world of Neverland and writes a play unlike any the high-society London theatergoers have ever seen. It's a tremendous risk, but as Barrie himself has discovered- when you believe, you can fly.

Photo Credit: Carol Rosegg