Today in the ArtZany Radio studio Paula Granquist welcomes director Rachel Haider and actors Pauline Jennings and Andrew Artley to preview the Northfield Arts Guild production of Peter and the Starcatcher.
Peter and the Starcatcher
Friday, July 15 and Saturday, July 16 at 7:30pm
Sunday July 17 at 2pm
Friday, July 22 and Saturday, July 23 at 7:30pm
Sunday, July 24 at 2pm
The show will be performed at the Northfield Arts Guild Theater, 411 3rd St. W, Northfield, MN. Tickets are on sale now – in person at the Northfield Arts Guild office (304 Division St.), by phone (507-645-8877), or online at northfieldartsguild.org.
Prepare to be whisked away on the adventure of a lifetime as the Guild Theater brings Neverland to Northfield with the Tony Award-winning play, Peter and the Starcatcher – directed by Rachel Haider with music direction by Peter Webb, and choreography by Mary Hahn.
Peter and the Starcatcher is a raucous romp of a comedy by Rick Elice, a theatrical adaptation of the 2004 novel “Peter and the Starcatchers” by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. This humorous and fantastical story of what happened before Peter Pan met Wendy is a grown-ups prequel to Peter Pan.
In this imaginative play, we meet pirates, mermaids, lost boys, and others who set out for adventure filled with the immense possibility and dreams critical to great theatrical storytelling. We meet a poor orphaned child on the high seas simply called Boy because, in the absence of a mother and a father, he was never given a name. His sad and lonely world is turned upside down when he meets the starcatcher apprentice, Molly. The daughter of famous Starcatcher Lord Aster, our heroine is on a mission to save the world and protect a treasure trunk filled with magical star stuff from getting into the hands of the evil and greedy pirate, Black Stache. As they travel aboard the ship called Neverland on a perilous high seas adventure, Molly and Boy learn about love, friendship and forge an unbreakable bond.
