PETER AND THE STARCATCHER
A Play By RICK ELICE, Based on the Novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Music By WAYNE BARKER
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). 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.
The cast includes: Aaron Schilling (Boy/Peter), Zoe Zoller (Molly Aster), Douglas Fries (Black Stache), Ben Miller-Jones (Prentiss), Cody Combs (Ted), Tyler Gau (Smee), Nick Godfrey (Alf), Emily Borst (Mrs. Bumbrake/Teacher), Flowy Ebony (Lord Aster/ Mermaid), Randolph Geers (Falcon Scott), Ryan J. Poole (Grempkin/Fighting Prawn), Gabe Schenker (Slank/Hawking Clam), Trey Finkenstead (Sanchez/ensemble/u.s Peter/Prentiss/Smee/Slank), Caitlin Walsh (Seafarer/narrators/ensemble/understudy for Molly/Bumbrake/Teacher/Ted/Hawking Clam and Mack Ensemble) and Zac Holman (Swing: Aster/Alf/Fighting Prawn/Grempkin/Scott/Sanchez)
Production team: Stacy Searle, Director; Zac Holman, Co-Director/Choreographer;
Greg Dastillung, Music Director, John Herndon, Fight Choreographer and Sophie Reece, Production Stage Manager