Three speakers discuss Finding Neverland the Musical, which premiered in 2014 and moved to Broadway in 2015, with music by Gary Barlow and Elliot Kennedy. They recite verses about childhood play, cowboys, flying, and knights, exploring how imagination fades as we grow up.
Inspired by the 2004 film Finding Neverland, Finding Neverland the Musical made its world premiere in 2014 at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Following completion of its Cambridge run, the production transferred to Broadway in March 2015. Finding Neverland follows the story of author J.M. Barrie and his relationship with the family of little Sylvia Llewellyn of days, who eventually became Barry's inspiration to write Peter Pan. Featuring a musical composition from Gary Barlow and Elliot Kennedy, the musical explores the power of imagination to open up new worlds and the pressures put on those worlds by the inevitability of growing up.
In the number of plays, it shows the irony of growing up and forgetting the fun adults had when they were kids.
Can you remember back when you were young? When all the simple things you did were so much fun? You got lost somewhere along the way. You've forgotten how to play every single day.
Am I right?
I remember back when I was just Starboy, I got a gun and a holster for a Christmas toy. Pretending to be a cowboy was the very best, 'cause I was always the fastest gun in all the West. Like, play, play, remember like it was yesterday. I was young and having fun, slaying all my cares away. Play, play, remember when you could see.
You were so mysterious and wise. Oh, when you shot to see the happy eyes. Mr. Crocker, surely you must have a childhood memory. There's a memory that I could share of sliding down the banister of our old stairs. Oh, think for a moment, I was in midair and for a moment I, I really thought that I could fly. I remember that my father told me of the fable. I wanted to meet my knight of the King's Round Table. I used to dream I could fly, never enough. And I was a gladiator, an archer, bring down. I used to dream this tourney would one day be mine. You see, you had an imagination all this time. He's come to see you through the eyes of sunshine. My friends, ladies and gentlemen, the nursery rhyme.
Georgie Porgie couldn't buy, kissed the girl to make her cry. When the boys came up to play, Georgie Porgie grabbed her hair. Oh my God!
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack looked over the candlestick. Mary, Mary, poppins, Mary, how's your mom? Oh, King Poppins, Mary was so worried, Mary was always needing
