Analysis Of Finding Neverland

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Michelle Williams and daughter Matilda Ledger were spotted at Broadway's "Finding Neverland" on September 27.

The show "Finding Neverland" is a musical that explores the power of the imagination to open up new worlds, and the pressures put upon those worlds by the inevitability of growing up.

Matilda Rose Ledger was born on October 28, 2005, in New York City. Her parents are Michelle Williams and the late Heath Ledger, who met on the set of the film Brokeback Mountain, in which they played husband and wife. During their time together, they lived in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, New York.

Their 9-year-old daughter has grown up so fast looking so much like her late dad, Heath. However, she is being remembered at the time when her father was still

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