Anthony Warlow Will Temporarily Step In For Kelsey Grammer in Finding Neverland on Broadway

Opera and musical theater favorite Anthony Warlow will return to the Great White Way in the Broadway.com Audience Choice Award-winning tuner Finding Neverland. He will temporarily assume the role of American producer Charles Frohman, currently played by Kelsey Grammer, at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Warlow will begin performances in mid-July (exact date to be confirmed) and play a limited engagement through September 13, when Grammer will return.

“It has rekindled my love for musical theater,” Warlow told the Australian talk show Mornings. “It’s a beautiful production, it’s beautifully realized and the performances are extraordinary.” Warlow will play Frohman (and Captain James Hook) for a limited three-month engagement.

Warlow made his Broadway debut in 2012 as Oliver “Daddy” Warbucks in the revival of Annie; he previously played the role at Melbourne’s Regent Theatre. He recently took on the title role of Don Quixote in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Man of La Mancha in Washington, D.C. His additional musical theater credits include The Phantom of the Opera, Doctor Zhivago, Les Miserables and Guys and Dolls. On the opera stage, he has performed in Die Fledermaus, The Magic Flute and The Tales of Hoffman.

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 (Matthew Morrison) and his relationship with the family of widow Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Laura Michelle Kelly). Llewelyn Davies' children eventually became Barrie's inspiration to write Peter Pan. The cast also includes Carolee Carmello, Teal Wicks, Alex Dreier, Hayden Signoretti, Noah Hinsdale, Hayden Signoretti, Christopher Paul Richards, Sawyer Nunes, Jackson Demott Hill and Aidan Gemme.