Tony Winner Bryan Cranston Now Among Producers of Broadway's FINDING NEVERLAND

By: Feb. 27, 2015
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Tony Award winner Bryan Cranston shared in a recent tweet that after watching the Broadway-bound production of Finding Neverland in Boston, he "cried with joy." Well now the ALL THE WAY star is putting his money where his mouth is, according to Page Six of The New York Post, and has become a producer on the musical.

Sources tell the paper, "Rarely do celebrities invest in projects, so this is a big sign of [Bryan's] faith in the show." The "Breaking Bad" star even joined the show's composer, Gary Barlow in London this week to preview tunes from the production there!

Cranston won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for All the Way. He began his acting career in local and regional theatres, getting his start at the Granada Theater in the San Fernando Valley. He is best known for portraying Walter White in BREAKING BAD from 2008 to 2013, and Hal in Malcolm in the Middle from 2000 to 2006. He won four Emmy Awards and was nominated for five more.

The actor won the 2014 Golden Globe® and three consecutive Emmy® Awards for "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series" for his portrayal of Walter White on AMC's Breaking Bad. Cranston holds the honor of being the first actor in a cable series, and the second lead actor in the history of the Emmy® Awards to receive three consecutive wins. His performance has also earned him a fourth Emmy® nomination this year, a Television Critics Association award, three Golden Globe nominations and a Screen Actors Guild award.

On the big screen, Cranston won a second Screen Actors Guild award this year for his co-starring role in the 2012 Oscar-winning Best Picture, Argo, essaying the role of CIA operative Jack O'Donnell opposite star-director Ben Affleck.

He will next star in Jay Roach's Trumbo playing the title role of Dalton Trumbo, who was one of Hollywood's most successful screenwriters whose career came to an end when he was blacklisted in the 1940's for being a communist.

Finding Neverland, starring Matthew Morrison, Kelsey Grammer, Laura Michelle Kelly, and Carolee Carmello, will begin previews on Sunday, March 15, 2015 at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (205 West 46th Street), and will open on Wednesday, April 15.

Based on the Miramax motion picture by David Magee and the play The Man Who Was Peter Pan byAllan Knee, Finding Neverland follows the relationship between playwright J. M. Barrie and the family that inspired Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up - one of the most beloved stories of all time.

Directed by Tony Award®-winner Diane Paulus (Pippin) with book by Olivier Award®-nominee James Graham, music and lyrics by U.K. pop sensation Gary Barlow (Take That) and Grammy Award®-winner Eliot Kennedy, choreography by Emmy Award®-winner Mia Michaels (So You Think You Can Dance), this new musical explores the power of imagination to open up new worlds, and the pressures put upon those worlds by the inevitability of growing up.



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