FINDING NEVERLAND headed to the West End in 2025?

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

Updated On: 5/6/24 at 10:02 AM

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.