The National Tour of Finding Neverland was an amazing experience. Playing this version of Capt. Hook was thrilling, but truly it was playing my dear Charles Frohman that totally took my heart. It was an honor and a joy to bring him to life.
And then, Covid…We watched upcoming performances be erased off the schedule as venues shuttered, and we heard more and more news of this deadly virus. And we started to see the writing on the wall.
We played what would be our final performance on Thursday, March 12, 2020, in Saginaw, MI, at the Dow Event Center.
At the time, we didn’t know it was to be our final performance, but the signs were all there, and many of us treated it as our farewell performance. It was glorious; charged with emotion, laughter and tears.
And then we holed up at our hotel in Saginaw, waiting for the shoe to drop. And drop it did. On Saturday, 3/14, we received confirmation that all the remaining dates of our tour, including the long anticipated week-long sit-down in Vancouver, BC, had been canceled.
We took that Sunday to pack and say our goodbyes, and then we all went our various ways home, and Neverland became a lovely, melancholy, memory.
And then, for all intents and purposes, the world stopped. And, for a while, we all became lost boys and pirates, sailing an uncharted sea.