Confirmed! Kelsey Grammer Will Return to Broadway in Finding Neverland

Tony nominee and five-time Emmy Award winner Kelsey Grammer has been officially confirmed for a Broadway return in the new musical Finding Neverland, opening at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in April. He joins Matthew Morrison in the Broadway company, who was recently announced to star as J.M. Barrie, and Laura Michelle Kelly (according to The New York Times), who originated the role of Sylvia Llewlyn Davies in the musical's pre-Broadway American Repertory Theater production.

Grammer will take on the supporting role of Charles Frohman/Captain Hook, replacing Michael McGrath, who originated it last fall at A.R.T. McGrath will appear on Broadway beginning in February in Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of On the Twentieth Century.

Grammer last appeared on Broadway in the 2010 revival of La Cage aux Folles, earning him a Tony nomination. His other stage credits also include Macbeth and Othello. Along with playing the title role on the sitcom Frasier, Grammer played the same role on Cheers, voices Sideshow Bob on The Simpsons, and appeared in the films Down Periscope and X-Men: The Last Stand.

Featuring a score by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy and a book by James Graham, Finding Neverland explores the friendship of playwright J.M. Barrie's 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. Directed by Diane Paulus, the production begins performances March 15 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, with opening night set for April 15.

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