A Lovely, Wonderful Thought: Tony Yazbeck Begins Performances in Finding Neverland on Broadway
What this triple threat means to us! Tony Yazbeck will fly into Finding Neverland on January 26; the Tony nominee replaces Matthew Morrison as J.M. Barrie in the Broadway.com Audience Choice Award-winning new musical.
Yazbeck received a 2015 Tony nod for his performance in the On The Town revival; additional Main Stem credits include Chicago, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Gypsy, A Chorus Line, Oklahoma! and Never Gonna Dance. He also recently starred in the world premiere of Hal Prince's Prince of Broadway in Japan.
Directed by Diane Paulus and featuring a score by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy and a book by James Graham, Finding Neverland follows the story of J.M. Barrie and his relationship with the family of widow Sylvia Llewelyn Davies. Llewelyn Davies' children eventually became Barrie's inspiration to write Peter Pan.
The cast at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre also currently includes Kelsey Grammer as Charles Frohman, Laura Michelle Kelly as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, Carolee Carmello as Madame du Maurier and Teal Wicks as Mary Barrie.
