Kelsey Grammer to Join Matthew Morrison in Broadway's Finding Neverland?

Kelsey Grammer, the five-time Emmy-winning star of TV's Frasier, is expected to take on the role of Charles Frohman/Captain Hook in the new Broadway musical Finding Neverland, The New York Times reports. Grammer would take over the role from Michael McGrath, who originated it last fall in the musical's pre-Broadway American Repertory Theater production and who will appear this spring in Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of On the Twentieth Century.

Grammer, who last appeared on Broadway in La Cage aux Folles, has not been officially announced for the production. He would join Matthew Morrison, who plays the author J.M. Barrie. His 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.

Additionally, the production will continue to star Laura Michelle Kelly, who originated the role of Sylvia Llewlyn Davies at A.R.T.

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 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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