Flight Delay: Sandy Duncan Postpones First Performance in Finding Neverland on Broadway

Sandy Duncan has delayed her first performance as Madame du Maurier in Broadway’s Finding Neverland. The Tony nominee, who famously starred as Peter Pan on Broadway in 1979, will now begin performances at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre on February 12 (instead of the previously announced February 9). Duncan is scheduled to remain in the Broadway.com Audience Choice Award-winning musical through March 27.

Carolee Carmello played her final performance on February 7; the three-time Tony nominee will next appear in Tuck Everlasting beginning March 31.

Along with Peter Pan, Duncan received Tony nods for The Boy Friend and Canterbury Tales; she has also been seen on Broadway in Chicago, My One And Only and Love Is a Time of Day. She received Emmy nods for Funny Face and Roots; other screen credits include The Hogan Family.

The cast also currently includes Tony Yazbeck, Laura Michelle Kelly, Kelsey Grammer and Teal Wicks.

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 (Yazbeck) and his relationship with the family of widow Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Kelly). Llewelyn Davies' children eventually became Barrie's inspiration to write Peter Pan.