FINDING NEVERLAND headed to the West End in 2025?

[jacobsnchz14]

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]

Posted: 5/5/24 at 8:32pm

So London will finally learn "the story of how PETER became PAN"?!

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/5/24 at 8:35pm

It’s a shame they felt the need to rewrite it again. I thought the tour version finally got it just right.

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

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.

[Jordan Catalano]

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. 

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 5/5/24 at 9:18pm

We’re coming up on ten years since the Broadway production opened. Man, I feel old.

[CATSNYrevival]

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."

[TBFL]

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?

[binau]

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. 

[TBFL]

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

[Broadway Flash]

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. 

[rosscoe(au)]

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. 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

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.

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

[OhHiii]

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]

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]

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.