"Cheers" Actor Co-Directs Broadway Hit, "Peter and the Starcatcher" by Roger Friedman, Contributor (FORBES)

What a terrible way to get you, dear reader, into this story.

But Roger Rees, who played British magnate Robin Colcord on “Cheers,” is the co-director (with Alex Timbers) of “Peter and the Starcatcher” on Broadway.

The hilarious and magnificent play with music opened on Sunday night, and it’s a winner. Christian Borle, from the NBC series “Smash” and a long list of Broadway credits, literally steals the show, the theater and everything around him as the comic villain in this sort of re-telling or new-telling of the tale of Peter became Peter Pan.

This a big season of “new” Broadway stars like Borle, Steve Kazee, Jeremy Jordan, Josh Young, and, of course, Michael Cerveris.


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