Broadway Peter Pan Sandy Duncan to Join Cast of Finding Neverland
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Iconic Peter Pan star Sandy Duncan will return to Neverland and Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre tonight, when she joins the company of Finding Neverland in the role of Madame du Maurier. Duncan's engagement in the show will continue through March 27.
Directed by Diane Paulus, Finding Neverland opened on Broadway in April after a 2014 tryout run at the American Repertory Theater. With a score by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy and a book by James Graham, Finding Neverland explores the friendship of playwright J.M. Barrie and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, a widowed mother whose four boys inspired the beloved Peter Pan stories. It is based on the 2004 film of the same title, which itself was based on Allan Knee's play The Man Who Was Peter Pan.
Duncan joins a company headed by Tony nominee Tony Yazbeck as J.M. Barrie, Laura Michelle Kelly as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, and Emmy winner Kelsey Grammer as Charles Frohman/Captain Hook.
Duncan will be stepping in for role originator Carolee Carmello, who departs the production to star in the upcoming Broadway production of Tuck Everlasting.
