(And D’Amico has a wicked beard!) And Rick Holmes brings a little high-brow honor to the story as Lord Aster.īut the show would be lost forever if not for the three main players: Christian Borle as Black Stache, Celia Keenan-Bolger as Molly and Adam Chanler-Berat as Boy.īlack Stache is the man who goes on to become Captain Hook, and in Borle’s hands, he’s goofy, spastic and totally harmless. Isaiah Johnson (Captain Scott), Matt D’Amico (Slank/Hawking Clam) and Kevin Del Aguila (Smee) all have scene-stealing moments. As two other lost boys, Carson Elrod and David Rossmer engage in classic sidekick banter, always trying to claim leadership and hatch another plan. Arnie Burton and Greg Hildreth are delightfully silly as Mrs. Teddy Bergman is hilarious as Fighting Prawn. Rees and Timbers have assembled a terrific cast. And we are still asked to help tell the story by using our imaginations. Worlds are still created by the entire company, with every member pitching in to move a box of treasure, hold a rope or be a door. A single rope is still the most pivotal piece of the scenic design (which, rope and all, springs brilliantly from the mind of Donyale Werle, reprising her work from NYTW). Under the splendid direction of Roger Rees and Alex Timbers (with movement by Steven Hoggett), the rag-tag, can-do, scrappy spirit from the downtown production has made its way uptown.
And it’s about the enduring friendships forged along the way. It’s about the chances you have to take to find freedom. Yes, it’s the story about how Boy becomes Peter Pan more broadly, though, it’s about a lost boy finding his home. Though the show uses the tagline, “the Neverland you never knew,” that’s only half the story.
Losing nothing in its transfer from the New York Theatre Workshop, “star stuff” has made its way to Broadway, and what a wonderful thing that is. Imagination has taken over the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, home to Peter and the Starcatcher.
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