Backstage magic in Finding Neverland

[CraigMitchell]

Finding Neverland is the big new musical hitting Broadway ... seems the young cast are getting into magic

https://youtu.be/tedahqfo9xc?t=3m58s

Does anyone know if there are any illusions featured in the show ?

[Tom Moore]

The current broadway version is the third re-write/re-compose of this show so it could have changed, but in version #2 there wasn't and even the development work we'd done on making the flying magical was quickly sidelined.

eta - Paul Kieve has a credit on the Broadway version so there's clearly something in there; i'd guess revolving around tinkerbell.

[CraigMitchell]

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/a ... -weinstein

"Director Paulus keeps throwing in magic tricks and storybook set changes, but no amount of illusionism can make the songs any better or the script and style seem any more definite"

[Jonathan Townsend]

It's front stage according to the times

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/04 ... .html?_r=0

"Finding Neverland" awkwardly juggles parental death and divorce and puts them in a Disney show that Disney long ago stopped making. There's a live dog, a "Cheers" joke for Grammer that's funny but breaks the fourth wall, a fog machine on overdrive and a full-sized man in a bear costume riding a tricycle — never a good sign.

When the show is working on all cylinders, it's absolutely thrilling. The propulsive Act One closing song "Stronger," in which Barrie chooses to man up and be a pirate himself, could easily be the closing song at an Iron Maiden concert. The scene when Kelly departs in a swirl of wind machine-fed sparkles to the musical's title song is pure understated brilliance.

magic in the service of theater ...