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PETER AND THE STARCATCHER

a play by RICK ELICE

music by WAYNE BARKER

based on the novel by DAVE BARRY and RIDLEY PEARSON

Presented through a special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

The videotaping or making of electronic or other audio and/or visual recordings of this production or distributing recordings on any medium, including the Internet, is strictly prohibited, a violation of the author’s rights and actionable under copyright law.

Show photos: Original Broadway Cast
Production photos by Tim Ngyuen

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February 10 to
March 11, 2023

Tuesdays - Saturdays at 7pm

Saturdays & Sundays at 2pm

rated G | 10+

running time 120 mins,
2-act play with music

presented in partnership with OCL Studios.

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ABOUT THE SHOW

Tony-winning Peter and the Starcatcher upends the century-old story of how a miserable orphan comes to be The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (a.k.a. Peter Pan). A wildly theatrical adaptation of Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s best-selling novels, the play was conceived for the stage by directors, Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, and written by Rick Elice, with music by Wayne Barker. From marauding pirates and jungle tyrants to unwilling comrades and unlikely heroes, Peter and the Starcatcher playfully explores the depths of greed and despair... and the bonds of friendship, duty and love.

A young orphan and his mates are shipped off from Victorian England to a distant island ruled by the evil King Zarboff. They know nothing of the mysterious trunk in the captain’s cabin, which contains a precious, otherworldly cargo. At sea, the boys are discovered by a precocious young girl named Molly, a Starcatcher-in-training who realizes that the trunk’s precious cargo is starstuff, a celestial substance so powerful that it must never fall into the wrong hands. When the ship is taken over by pirates – led by the fearsome Black Stache, a villain determined to claim the trunk and its treasure for his own – the journey quickly becomes a thrilling adventure.

Featuring a dozen actors portraying more than 100 unforgettable characters, Peter and the Starcatcher uses the limitless possibilities of imagination to bring the story to life.

“This is a celebration of youth and of the power of theater to inspire children and adults alike.”

– Backstage

RATING: PG | 10+
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Statistics

Production Inclusion Statics

58.62% FEMALE/NON-BINARY
REPRESENTATION

46.67% ON STAGE
71.43% OFFSTAGE

55.17% MARGINALIZED REPRESENTATION

80% ON STAGE
28.57% OFFSTAGE

36.67% BIPOC
REPRESENTATION

53.3% ON STAGE

20% OFFSTAGE

26.67% LGBTQIA2S+
REPRESENTATION

40% ON STAGE
13.33% OFFSTAGE

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ABOUT THE CREATORS

Rick Elice

Broadway: The Cher Show, Peter and the Starcatcher, Jersey Boys (with Marshall Brickman, Bob Gaudio, Bob Crewe; directed by Des McAnuff:Tony Award, Best Musical); The Addams Family (with Marshall Brickman, Andrew Lippa; directed by Jerry Zaks). Regional: Turn of the Century (with Marshall Brickman; directed by Tommy Tune); Double Double (directed by Roger Rees); Dog and Pony (with Michael Patrick Walker); Studio 54 (with Stephen Trask, Peter Yanowitz; directed by Christopher Ashley). His book Finding Roger, An Improbably Theatrical Love Story is published by Kingswell.

Wayne Barker

2011 Drama Desk Award for Peter and the Starcatcher. B'way: Dame Edna: Back With a Vengeance (composer, co-lyricist with Barry Humphries). Reg'l: The Great Gatsby (Guthrie), Twelfth Night and The Three Musketeers (Seattle Rep). TV: "A LIttle Curious." Other: Mark Bennett's A Midsummer Night's Dream (orchestrations). Chicago City Limits, the Raymond Scott Orchestrette, orchestras worldwide. Upcoming: I Heart Bob. Dramatists Guild: artistic associate for new musicals at NYTW.

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FROM THE DIRECTOR
Playwright George Bernard Shaw once wrote, “we don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
Peter wants to stay a boy, and I get the appeal! But even if I can’t be forever young, I can still fend off a sense of growing old (despite what my body occasionally tells me) by continuously welcoming play into my life. This production of Peter and the Starcatcher has been a beautiful contribution to that effort.

Surrounded by a cast, designers, and production team who has met every crazy idea with a resounding willingness to try while offering a bounty of their own brilliant and playful contributions along the way, this show has been borne from a beautiful spirit of play.
And now we invite you to play along! I love theatre that embraces its theatricality – when the way a story is told is as engaging as the story itself - but that requires an agreement between the performers and the audience to ‘suspend our disbelief’ and go on a fun and surprising journey together.

At the start of the show, the ensemble of actors encourages the audience to imagine the bits and pieces of the set to be the ingredients of an epic story, then brings them to life while inhabiting multiple characters and weaving a narrative that involves adventures on the high seas, travels to a distant island, and encounters with mystical creatures.
Imagination. Togetherness. Play.

We hope you have as much fun going on this journey as we have had making it.

Simon Mallett

Director