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Peter and the Starcatcher is a play based on a novel inspired by a play!

Rick Elice -Peter and the Starcatcher (play) American playwright Rick Elice (born 1956) has written a number of successful Broadway hits, including The Addams Family, Turn of the Century, and the award-winning Jersey Boys. Elice adapted Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s novel, Peter and the Starcatchers, into a theatrical play, which premiered in 2009. Elice decided to drop the “s” in the title of the play version in order to emphasize the relationship between Molly and Peter.

Dave Barry and Ridley Pearsonn Peter and the Starcatchers (novel) Dave Barry (born 1947) is a humor journalist and Ridley Pearson (born 1953) is a suspense novelist. These two lifelong friends teamed up to write Peter and the Starcatchers, a prequel to J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan story. The story was inspired by Ridley Pearson’s daughter, who asked her father one night how Peter Pan met Captain Hook.

J. M. Barrie-Peter Pan (play) Novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie was born in 1860 to a family of weavers in Scotland. His most famous work is the play Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, which was first published in 1904. He also published a novel adaptation of the play called Peter and Wendy in 1911. Barrie’s inspiration behind the story of Peter Pan came from stories he told to the boys of the Llewelyn Davies family, a family he befriended in London. Before Barrie died, he gave the rights of Peter Pan to a children’s hospital in London that still benefits from their proceeds today.