Peter and the Starcatcher: Steve Rosen

Steve Rosen will temporarily replace original cast Kevin Del Aguila in the role of 'Smee' from 08 Jul - 25 Aug 2013 in Rick Elice's Peter and the Starcatcher playing at New World Stages / Stage 1, where it is currently selling tickets through to 05 Jan 2014.

Kevin Del Aguila will play his last performance on 07 Jul 2013 before joining the cast of 'Love's Labours Lost' at The Public Theater. Del Aguila will return to the role on 26 Aug 2013.

This will not be Rosens first outing in Peter and the Starcatcher, he previously stepped in to play the role of Black Stache for certain performances during the show's Off-Broadway run at NYTW. Rosen co-wrote and co-starred in the off-Broadway musical 'The Other Josh Cohen' and has appeared on Broadway in 'Guys and Dolls,' 'The Farnsworth Invention' and 'Spamalot.'

Rosen joins the current cast which includes Rick Holmes (Black Stache), Nicole Lowrance (Molly), Jason Ralph (Boy), Edward Baker-Duly (Lord Aster), Matt D'Amico (Slank), Evan Harrington (Alf), Josh Grisetti (Fighting Prawn), Alex Hernandez (Captain Scott), Nate Miller (Ted), Andrew Mueller (Prentiss), Jon Patrick Walker (Mrs. Bumbrake), Jordan Geiger, Joanna Howard, José Restrepo and Graham Stevens.

Peter and the Starcatcher, written by Tony Award nominee Rick Elice, and directed by Tony Award-winner Roger Rees and Tony Award-nominee Alex Timbers, is performed by a company of twelve actors who play some 50 characters - all on a journey to answer the century-old question: How did Peter become The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up?

The show's design team includes Wayne Barker (Music), Steven Hoggett (Movement), Marco Paguia (Music Supervision), Donyale Werle (Scenic Design), Paloma Young (Costume Design), Jeff Croiter (Lighting Design) and Darron L West (Sound Design).

Peter and the Starcatcher is produced by Nancy Nagel Gibbs, Greg Schaffert, Eva Price, Tom Smedes and Disney Theatrical Productions.

Originally developed by Disney Theatrical Productions in 2003, Peter and the Starcatcher received its first lab at Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2007, under the direction of Rees and Timbers. A full length version of the play was then written by Elice, further developed by Disney Theatricals in a Page to Stage production at La Jolla Playhouse in the winter of 2009.

Following revisions, the play received its first fully staged production in March 2011 at Off-Broadway's New York Theatre Workshop where it played from 9 Mar 2011 - 24 Apr 2011. It then transferred to Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre, where it played from 28 Mar 2012 - 20 Jan 2013, where it went on to win five 2012 Tony Awards - the most of any play of the 2011-2012 season. The play then returned to Off-Broadway, opening at its present home, New World Stages / Stage 1, on 18 Mar 2013.

The Broadway premiere opened to mostly excellent reviews: Inventive, touching and mostly hilarious (newyorktheatreguide); Ecstatic production (NY Times); Beaming with dizzy humor and delightful stage magic (NY Daily News); Clever and joyous entertainment (Back Stage); Flies high (NY1).