8, 2009. It was co-directed by playwright Rick Elice's partner Roger Rees and Alex Timbers. An instrumental score was written by Wayne Barker. The cast starred Adam Green as Peter Pan. The play, now titled Peter and the Starcatcher, opened Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop, beginning performances on February 18, 2011. The show received several extensions, eventually closing on April 24, 2011. The new cast starred Celia Keenan-Bolger as Molly, Christian Borle as Black Stache, and Adam Chanler-Berat as Peter. From mid-March through April 1, Borle shared the role of Black Stache with Steve Rosen. Adam Chanler-Berat shared the role of Peter with Jason Ralph. The show then opened on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, with previews starting on March 28, 2012 and officially opening on April 15, 2012. The original Broadway cast included Christian Borle (Black Stache), Celia Keenan-Bolger (Molly), Adam Chanler-Berat (Boy), Teddy Bergman (Fighting Prawn), Arnie Burton (Mrs. Bumbrake), Matt D’Amico (Slank), Kevin Del Aguila (Smee), Carson Elrod (Prentiss), Greg Hildreth (Alf), Rick Holmes (Lord Aster), Isaiah Johnson (Captain Scott) and David Rossmer (Ted). Art for the Broadway production, which draws upon the whimsical, imaginative content in the show, was crafted by Vermont-based woodworker John W. Long, and featured in The New York Times. On July 2, 2012, Matthew Saldivar replaced Borle in the role of Black Stache. The Broadway production of Peter and the Starcatcher closed on January 20, 2013 after 18 previews and 319 regular performances. The show re-opened Off-Broadway at New World Stages beginning on March 18, 2013. It closed on January 12, 2014. A national tour launched in Denver on August 15, 2013 and concluded in Pittsburgh on May 25, 2014. A second national tour launched in Toledo on February 5, 2015 and concluded in Burlington, VT on April 14, 2015. The play is currently available for licensing from Music Theatre International. Original casts Critical response Although the show garnered positive-to-mixed reviews by most critics, it received a rave review from The New York Times, with Ben Brantley writing: "When the H.M.S. Neverland goes down in Peter and the Starcatcher, it's the most enthralling shipwreck since James Cameron sent the Titanic to her watery grave in the late 1990s ... The cast is, with no exceptions, wonderful ... It's a performance that you might classify as 'over the top', but only in the sense that the entire production is. With grown-up