Finding Neverland, the new musical based on Marc Forster's 2004 film about Peter Pan playwright J.M. Barrie, is coming to Broadway in March 2015.
The show is award-winning film producer Harvey Weinstein's first venture as a theatrical lead producer, though his "Shakespeare in Love" won a Best Picture Oscar and is now a smash hit on stage in London.
Mixed reviews of a tryout production in Leicester, England in 2012 led Weinstein to ditch the songs and start over, bringing in Tony Award-winning director Diane Paulus (Pippin) and commissioning a pop score from Gary Barlow, of the band Take That, and Grammy Award-winning songwriter and producer Eliot Kennedy, who has worked with Lulu, Bryan Adams and the Spice Girls among other pop luminaries. The book is by James Graham, and Emmy-winner Mia Michaels ("So You Think You Can Dance") is the choreographer.
Since then Weinstein has been pushing the production hard, even arranging for Jennifer Hudson to sing a number from the show on the 2014 Tony Awards broadcast though it had no announced Broadway plans at the time.
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