Peter and the Starcatcher

If this isn’t the most clever rendition of Peter Pan’s early years then I don’t know what is?
Everything from the the witty dialogue to the hysterical literary references — this play was creative in every sense of the word. The sheer basic action of the talented actors created such a believable scene out of thin air and left everything to our imagination — much like the story of Pan itself. The British commentary was a constant theme that I feel really tied the story together with a humorous and self-​depricating tone.
The acting are what really impressed me. The uncanny timing of jokes, the ability to bring an invisible ship, alligator, and fairy dust to life, and the ability to make a whole room of cynic strangers laugh just by the way you deliver a word is a genuine gift, and was apparent through the whole play. I recommend seeing this play. If anything for your inner child that never wants to grow up

This was a fantastically magical production!
Being the minimalist that I am, the greatest part of the play for me was the prop usage. Who had the vision to make this play interactive by presenting it in a way that allowed the audience to paint their own picture of various scenes & characters (my alligator/​dragon/​crocodile was purple *teehee*)?
I know they were being cheap but it was genious!
I’m glad to know the creative back story of the formerly nameless orphan, the girl who preceded Wendy & the pirate formerly known as Blackstache. It allows my inner child to imagine greater.

First of all thank you Unilocal for the amazing seats and the opportunity to see this show!!!
If you have partial amnesia like me, make sure you watch peter pan or hook before seeing this and you’ll get the little «inside jokes» more.
This isn’t a musical so make sure you bring your A game when it comes to paying attention cause the dialogue is quick and the jokes fly by!
The story itself (prequel to Peter Pan) is a bit wobbly at best but the cast was so great at physical/​slapstick comedy that it made it so fun! The set is amazing, the cast was charming, and their use of props was both imaginative and effective!
Don’t bring your hubs if he’s a debbie downer, this is more for kids and girlfriends!

This is a fun show. Funny, witty, excellent casting and performance. It’s a great show for kids and adults alike, given that there is everything from fart jokes to jokes that require an understanding of early British colonial history to find funny — good mix.
The show was done very cleverly, using a very minimal set but still making you feel that nothing was really lacking on the set production side.
The only reason I’m not giving this one 5 stars is simply that the premise of the show just seems like it’s been somewhat done already in the form of Wicked. The whole plot of, «what was this famous (hero/​villain) doing before (he/​she) was in this (movie/​story)?» is a great one, which is why Wicked was so great, and which is why this one is fun too, but there’s no getting around the fact that it’s not the first time it’s been done, and probably won’t be the last.
Overall great performance, though. Bravo cast and crew.

I have avoided posting this review for several days as I couldn’t decide whether to give it four or five stars. Ultimately, four stars won out because although the production, itself, was phenomenal, the plot was mediocre.
The dialogue was quick-​witted and kept the audience laughing. The simple effects were also outstanding, with clever uses of jump ropes and the cast as props. The cast did well assuming multiple roles and never missed a beat with the fast-​paced dialogue. Overall a great night of entertainment.

Once upon a time…
Once upon a time there was a fantastic play called Peter and the Starcatcher. And as Peter and the Starcatcher tells us, all great stories should begin with once upon a time.
I am conflicted a bit about what I want to say, as so much of what I loved about the show was the uniqueness and the surprises that it shared with the audience.
What I will say is that we walked out both saying that this performance was the most fun we had had at a show in quite a long time.
The cast was fun, funny, quick and incredibly talented. The show itself was very intelligent and witty. It is minimalistic in the staging, but the witty ways that they make up for it not only makes you not wish there was more staging, you find yourself thinking that if they would have had done the set in a different way, it would have taken away from the show, not added to it.
There are few times in my life that I have walked out of live theater wanting it to walk right back in and start it again, but if I had that option I would have.
This was a blast, I would recommend this show to anyone, old, young, conservative, liberal, doesn’t matter, it was just fun.

Unilocal really needs to add a sixth star option to be used for reviews like this. THERE IS NO DOUBT, that Peter and the Starcatcher was brilliantly written, superbly casted and flawlessly executed. Denver is so fortunate to have the beginning of this national tour right here in our own city.
I am a veteran of many plays and musicals, and I must say that Peter and the Starcatcher is among the very top caliber of a large group. As a «prequel» to Peter Pan, you will gain insights never-​before considered, about how and why Peter Pan remains a boy and chooses the friends he chooses. Presented in a never-​slowing cavalcade of intellectually stimulating repartee, the characters develop quickly before your eyes, as the plot unfurls in logical and natural pacing. The simplicity of the staging, and the multifaceted use of the actors, provides for a visual and auditory feast. In a true Gilbert and Sullivan-​esque fashion, villains and heroes emerge and duel in the most lovable of fashions.
This is the one play that you do not want to miss. I am beyond glad that I did not. Thank you DCPA, for all of your continued work in attracting top performances to Denver.

Clever and fun show! Loved the transformation that took place with simple props and the imagination involved. The enthusiastic cast were wonderful and humorous. I laughed many times. Very cool that the set is made up of recycled materials (found at each stop on the tour) as well. Great story telling, great night.

So fun and so fresh! I especially enjoyed the inventive use of inexpensive props to communicate complex situations (who knew that a piece of rope could transform into so many things?). Part of what made the show so enjoyable was its connections to modern day times. But I do have to wonder if the pop culture references will become outdated… at any rate, at any rate, a wonderfully charming story with expertly developed characters.

Wild, whacky, warped! Full of energy and imagination — this show did not disappoint! I enjoyed the 2^nd half the most — especially the mermaid number. Is it wrong that I liked the mermaid crown made of baby doll legs? The absurdity of it struck my funny bone. I appreciate the off-​beat and Peter and the Starcatcher delivered — there were so many levels of humor, pop culture references and slapstick — that at times it was a sensory overload — and I loved it. Black Stache was the standout of the show and the set was «spot on».

This play has absolutely been sprinkled with a fair amount of star stuff! Given the means and opportunity, I would recommend this play to anyone. It is full of laugh out loud slapstick, high brow insider theatre jokes, amazingly simple but outstanding effects, a great score (when is the last time you heard a xylophone?), and just the right amount of heart. This play is a sort of coming off age story for Peter Pan (insofar as the boy who wouldn’t grow up could come of age). It’s a fun story, but the reality is that the show is just so entertaining that you don’t really care whether it is going to come together (it does).

What a fun and highly entertaining show this was! My hubs and I went as part of a Unilocal Elite event (thanks Francis!) and I could not have been happier with my first Denver Elite event (we just moved here from the East Coast). The opera house is a beautiful facility, and suited this show perfectly.
I highly recommend this show. The sets, costumes, characters, story… all fantastic!

Man, oh, man, do I feel lucky to be Elite. Peter and the Star Catcher was just kickass. Funny, musical, quirky, and grown men squealing about tiramisu. LOVE. Go see this show.
(I actually liked the second act better than the first, contrary to some of the other reviewers, but maybe it’s because I’m amazingly bad at understanding British accents, and the speech was a smidge slower after intermission…)

How great is it to be a Unilocal Elite? Really? Great opportunity to see an incredibly entertaining show.
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect but was more than pleasantly surprised. I found myself laughing out loud through the whole thing. It’s fast and high energy from start to finish.
A few things:
It clearly says its for adults. Your kids won’t be offended by anything, but they aren’t going to understand it either.
The humor is fast paced and over the top slapstick at points but definitely funny.
The sets are minimal and the use of props is really clever, using one piece of rope as waves, walls, doors, etc.
Each member of the cast plays many parts, changing their character by their facial expressions and movement alone, pay attention to the skill.

I love theater, i love the arts!
This show was great! I kinda sorta remembered the story — yknow, tinkerbell, the nanny that was a dog, the brothers, never grow up… but I figured the prequel, i didn’t need to remeber what the next story was about — and i was right!
The story was it’s own, there were little hints to the peter pan story, but it was a really great story. Cute, well done, lots of funny parts, and an interesting take at how all this went down!
Definitely worth getting a ticket! It’s at at Kevin Taylor so lots of leg room and they have updated their bar area to give you cups with covers so you can bring it inside!
Go — get a ticket — let me know what you think!

I absolutely loved Peter and the Star Catcher!!! Seriously, how lucky am I to be a Unilocal Elite!!! I’m so grateful to have had the opportunity to watch this extraordinary theatrical production! At the Ellie Caulkins opera house, no less. This was my first time at the Opera house and it is magnificent– gorgeous, no bad seats in the house, acoustically perfect!
Denver is very lucky to attract some of the best shows touring the country, this is one of the shining examples of that.
Being a prequel to Peter Pan, this inventive, witty take on the story is nothing short of magical. It’s laugh out loud funny and ripe with surprising modern day jokes (ehrmagerd!) and cultural references. It was perfectly staged, the props were inventive (who knew one could do so much with rope???) and Black Stache was magnificently cast– I caught myself laughing to the point of tears during their mermaid number!
What a fantastic show– definitely recommend it, whole heartedly! Thanks DCPA for once again bringing such an amazing cultural experience to Denver and thanks Unilocal (Frances) for giving me the opportunity to see this fab show!

When I first heard that this show was coming, I didn’t know what it was at all, I think I might be one of the only people who didn’t know anything about it. My best friend was the one who told me that it had to do with Peter Pan, duh, it all makes sense now.
The show was really great, we loved it! We took our 10 year old girl, 9 year old boy and 7 year old boy and they all really enjoyed it. The 7 year old didn’t understand certain things about it, like why Peter never put on the green outfit. He still really enjoyed it overall though. There were plenty of laughs during the show, and I was pleased that the kids really did understand what was going on enough to laugh about it; actually my 9 year old kept «explaining» things to me, which showed that he knew what was up.
This is one of the shows that I have seen that has the least music, I think it has less than any other show I have seen, and that was ok.
The show was really great, the cast was great and these seats are some of the most comfortable in the whole DCPA group, lovely headrests!

This was very fun. I was hoping it would not be a musical, bs I really don’t like musicals.
This is one of those plays that is clever, and not too sappy. The props were very clever and fun, and the humor was sophisticated and dark enough to laugh often. It was one of those plays that is so creative with the props and recycling actors, that you really enjoy Just that Part of it. The twists of the story were unexpected.
Pan looked like a pan, and his backstory of being abused in an orphanage is just right. The best character was hook. He was like the old vaudeville villain, over the top and so fun.
The only drawback I’d the second half is not as clever as the first, and the very ending loses its sharpness and humor. Still though, really really fantastic.
Thanks, Unilocal

Peter and the St*rCatcher was so much fun!
And com-​on now… who doesn’t love Peter Pan or anything to do with Peter Pan? I have fond memories of putting the Peter Pan LP record on with my brother and dancing around and pretending we were flying to the songs with just a bit of help from the pixie dust of course!
Yes that would have been pre video for the younger set :)
Very creative use of the small number of actors in scene transitions while brilliant use of fanciful and at times very funny props tells a beautiful and engaging pre story to Peter Pan.
The cast and humor was top notch and kept me chuckling and sometimes belly laughing through the show.
And Hook had the most laughs… whodthunkit? He use to scare me to pieces!
My favorite prop was the crocodile! So great! Go see for yourself! :)
Tick Tock, Tick Tock, Tick Tock, …
I just might be flying around the room right now!
Happy Pixie Dusting!

OMG OMG OMG oh my god ohmergawd
This was intoxicatingly funny from start to finish.
The Cast 5 stars
The Plot 5 stars
The Singing 5 Stars
Great plot easy to follow. I totally get now how it’s the prequel to Peter Pan. I recommend taking the kids to see it. Packed full of all around good humor and one liners.
The props they work with are simple but effective even the flying cat lol. And it will make you want Pork Chops as well. You’ll visualize water at certain points. I was laughing so hard I was in tears. I could see it again and again.