July 17-20, 2025
A Play By Rick Elice
Based on the Novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Music by Wayne Barker
Produced on Broadway by Nancy Nagel Gibbs, Greg Schaffert, Eva Price, Tom Smedes, and Disney Theatrical Productions
Director – Becky Smith
Music Director – Linda Barbieri
Location
Marilyn Rodman Performing Arts Center
One School Street
Foxboro, MA
Show Times
TBD
In partnership with The Marylin Rodman Performing Arts Center we are thrilled to bring PETER AND THE STARCATCHER to the stage this summer.
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.
For audition information head HERE.
This program is supported in part by grants from the Mansfield, Norfolk, Norton, and Wrentham Cultural Councils, local agencies which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Peter and the Starcatcher is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com.