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The National Tour of "Finding Neverland"

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   Finding Neverland was an evil show. Throughout the last thirty minutes of the touring production of the 2015 musical, I was mesmerized by the endearing, adorable, heartbreaking, and genuinely great scenes that I was witnessing before me. As I was sitting there in my seat watching the last thirty minutes of the second act, I said "Wait a second, the other two hours of this show were painfully mediocre. How come the show is acting like it was really good, all of a sudden?" That is the evil of Finding Neverland . For two hours I sat through a generic and bland family musical and left feeling positive about it. It's not that I thought the show was terrible by any means, I just found it to be so subpar that it hurt. But then all of a sudden, I am so completely entranced for the final thirty minutes, that I was almost convinced I was seeing a good musical. However, when the houselights came up at the end of the show, I quickly remembered everything else I didn't like abo