Peter and the Starcatcher Flies into Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre

It's official: Peter and the Starcatcher, a play with music that retells the story of Peter Pan, is headed to Broadway. The previously announced transfer of the show, which had a critically acclaimed run at New York Theatre Workshop in March 2011, will begin previews at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on March 28 and open on April 15, co-directed by Roger Rees and Alex Timbers. No casting has been announced.

Adapted by by Rick Elice (the Tony-nominated co-librettist of Jersey Boys) from a Disney-Hyperion novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, Peter and the Starcatcher features a company of 12 actors portraying some 50 characters, all on a journey to answer the century-old question: How did Peter Pan become The Boy Who Refused To Grow Up? The show's sold-out NYTW production received five 2011 Drama Desk nominations, winning an award for Outstanding Music in a Play. The off-Broadway cast included Next to Normal vet Adam Chanler-Berat (who is set to depart the off-Broadway production of Rent on January 19) and Tony nominees Christian Borle (Legally Blonde, TV’s forthcoming Smash) and Celia Keenan-Bolger (The Light in the Piazza).

The entire creative team will reunite for the Broadway production, including Wayne Barker (music), Steven Hoggett (movement), Marco Paguia (music direction), Donyale Werle (scenic design), Paloma Young (costume design), Jeff Croiter (lighting design) and Darron L. West (sound design).

Although a news release notes, “The show began its journey to the stage in 2003 when Disney Theatrical Productions president Thomas Schumacher discovered the first Barry and Pearson book while it was still in galleys, and its development has been shepherded by DTP ever since,” Disney is not listed as a producer of Peter and the Starcatcher. Lead Broadway producers are Nancy Nagel Gibbs, Greg Schaffert, Eva Price and Tom Smedes.