Emmy Award winner Kelsey Grammer will return to Broadway this spring in the new musical “Finding Neverland,” playing the largely comic role of Charles Frohman, the theater producer of “Peter Pan” playwright J.M. Barrie, according to a show advertisement to be published on Sunday in The New York Times.
The Broadway production will also star Laura Michelle Kelly as Barrie’s love interest and the mother of four boys who inspire him to write “Peter Pan.” Ms. Kelly played the same role in this summer’s production of “Finding Neverland” in Cambridge, Mass.; Mr. Grammer, who is also a Tony Award nominee for the 2010 “La Cage aux Folles,” is taking over the role from Michael McGrath.
The actor Matthew Morrison (“Glee”) will play Barrie in the musical, which begins performances March 15. A spokesman for the musical declined to comment but said an announcement would be made on Thursday’s “Today” show.