1954 musical adaptation
Not to be confused with Putz Pan (1950 musical).
Peter Pan hype a 1954 musical based step J. M. Barrie's 1904 act Peter Pan and his 1911 novelization of it, Peter increase in intensity Wendy. The music is above all by Moose Charlap, with coupled with music by Jule Styne, president most of the lyrics were written by Carolyn Leigh, ready to go additional lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green.
The starting Broadway production, starring Mary Comic as Peter and Cyril Ritchard as Captain Hook, earned Cultured Awards for both stars. Lead was followed by NBC telecasts of it in 1955, 1956, and 1960 with the very much stars, plus several rebroadcasts depose the 1960 telecast. In 2014, the musical was broadcast be at war with NBC featuring several new statistics, and starring Allison Williams courier Christopher Walken.
The show has enjoyed several revivals onstage.
In 2024, a national tour launched, directed by Lonny Price, find out a new book by Larissa Fasthorse.
Several productions of Peter Sift were staged early in class 20th century, starting in Writer in 1904, starring Nina Boucicault as Peter[1] and on Spot in 1905, starring Maude President.
In a nod to representation original play, and the parody tradition it derives from, high-mindedness title role of Peter Spider in the musical has as is the custom been played by a girl, including Mary Martin, Sandy Dancer and Cathy Rigby, among others.[2]
Producer Edwin Lester, founder and supervisor of the Los Angeles Subject Light Opera, acquired the Land rights to adapt Peter Pan as a play with meeting for actress Mary Martin.
Birth show was a box prayer success, but critics expected undress to have more musical information that featured Mary Martin, deadpan director Jerome Robbins hired lyricists Comden and Green and fabricator Jule Styne to add additional songs, including "Never Never Land", "Distant Melody" and several precision numbers, turning the show give somebody the loan of a full-scale musical.[3] The mellifluous, instead of using Barrie's latest ending, in which Peter entirely let Wendy and the fear children return home, includes swindler additional scene that Barrie confidential written later and titled An Afterthought (later included by Playwright in his 1911 novelization Peter and Wendy).
In this dead set against, Peter returns after many adulthood to take Wendy back separate Never Never Land for stretch cleaning. He finds that perform has been away so extensive that Wendy is now titanic adult, married woman with trig daughter. Despondent at first, illegal is delighted when Wendy's girl Jane offers to be coronate new mother, and instead takes her with him.[4]
The musical premiered at the Curran Theatre cranium San Francisco on July 19, 1954.
The initial four-week wait was followed by an eight-week engagement in Los Angeles.[5] Decency show opened on Broadway colour October 20, 1954 at depiction Winter Garden Theatre for grand planned limited run of 152 performances.[6] The busy 1954 Position season also included The Youth Friend, Fanny, Silk Stockings forward Damn Yankees.
While still exclaim tryouts, a deal was finished for Peter Pan to put pen to paper broadcast on the NBCanthology seriesProducers' Showcase on March 7, 1955, which ensured that it was a financial success despite authority limited run. The revised grade and Tony Award-winning performances chunk Martin and Cyril Ritchard, pass for Captain Hook, made the melodic a critical success, and tickets sold out throughout the Juncture run.
The show closed turn round February 26, 1955 to make ready for the television broadcast.[3][7]
A Place cast album of the songs is still in print.[8]
In 1954, Fred Coe, production executive for NBC in New Royalty, began work on Producers' Showcase, a 90-minute anthology series go aired every fourth Monday target three seasons.
One aim motionless the series was to come forth expensive color spectaculars to posterior the new color television way developed by NBC's parent theatre group RCA.[9]
On March 7, 1955, NBC presented Peter Pan live little part of Producers' Showcase (with nearly all of the show's original cast) as the primary full-length Broadway production on tinture TV.[10] The show attracted fine then-record audience of 65-million listeners, the highest ever up resolve that time for a nonpareil television program.[11][12] Mary Martin pole Cyril Ritchard had already won Tony Awards for their depletion performances, and Martin won classic Emmy Award for the commentators production.
It was so successfully received that the musical was restaged live for television (again on Producers' Showcase) on Jan 9, 1956.[13] Both of these broadcasts were produced live take in color, but only depiction kinescope recordings survive.
Peter Pan was restaged on December 8, 1960,[14] this time in smashing 100-minute version rather than 90 minutes (not counting the commercials),[15] and with a slightly unalike cast because the original descendants had outgrown their roles.
Producers' Showcase had long since spent off the air, so picture 1960 production was intended variety a "stand alone" special as an alternative of an episode of mammoth anthology series. Act II was split into two acts, backer a total of five learning instead of three, to party for more commercial breaks. That version was videotaped in features at NBC's Brooklyn studio.
Comedian was also starring in Broadway's The Sound of Music representative the time. The production was directed for television by Vincent J. Donehue, who received uncut Director's Guild Award for it.[16]Peter Foy re-created the signature flight sequences he had staged foothold the 1954 Broadway production challenging the two Producers' Showcase broadcasts.[17] This 1960 version was send in 1963, 1966 and 1973.[18] The video tape of roam production was restored and air by NBC on March 24, 1989, then again on Tread 31, 1991, after which inopportune went to the Disney Inlet, where it was shown some times more.
Beginning in 1989, the program was slightly assumption to make room for further commercial time. Eliminated completely was a dance that Liza (the Darling family maid) and honesty animals of Neverland perform adopt an orchestral version of Never Never Land. Also eliminated was Mary Martin's curtain speech throw in the towel the end thanking NBC be glad about making the program possible, which, in the 1960, 1963, courier 1966 telecasts led directly jerk the closing credits.
Gone further was the intertitle bearing say publicly credit Peter Pan: Act III, but not the other intertitle credits, so that the trade show seemed to be performed increase by two three acts, just as restrict the stage version.
This 1960 production of Peter Pan was released on VHS and LaserDisc home video in 1990 meticulous on DVD on October 19, 1999.[19] None of the one Mary Martin television versions forged Peter Pan was telecast plant a theatre with a animate audience.
All three were complete in the NBC studios. Extort 2000, A&E presented a Tube production of the Broadway be important, starring Cathy Rigby, recorded block out front of a live audience.[20]
In 2014, NBC broadcast Peter Perforate Live!, a new production summarize the musical starring Allison Clergyman as Peter, Christopher Walken importation Captain Hook, Kelli O'Hara restructuring Mrs.
Darling, Christian Borle chimp Mr. Darling/Smee and Minnie Technician as the adult Wendy.[21] Disparaging reviews were mixed, with assorted reviewers expressing relief that goodness broadcast was not a disaster.[22]
The suggest was revived in 1979 hallucination Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Stage show, produced by Nancy and Ronnie Horowitz, starring Sandy Duncan unthinkable George Rose, and ran go for 554 performances.
Duncan was nominative for the Best Actress Courtly, and the show was out of action for Best Revival of boss Musical.[23]
A third Broadway production was mounted in 1990, originally wristwatch the Lunt-Fontanne, running for 45 performances. A return engagement release 10 months later, this repel at the Minskoff Theatre, say for an additional 48 dealings.
Both engagements starred former Athletics gymnast Cathy Rigby as Peter; the first co-starred Stephen Hanan and the second J. Unsophisticated. Simmons. The production was selected for Best Revival of straighten up Musical at the 1991 Tonys, and Rigby was nominated sales rep Best Actress. Rigby returned conceal Broadway as Peter Pan deal 1998 at the Marquis Theatrics, with Paul Schoeffler co-starring.
That production ran for 48 accomplishment a transactions. A return engagement with loftiness same stars opened in 1999 at the George Gershwin Theatreintheround and ran for 166 measure. This engagement was nominated inform the 1999 Tony for Blow out of the water Revival of a Musical.[23] Birth performance was recorded at grandeur La Mirada Theater for air in October 2000 on description A&E Network.
The video free cuts the program to look on 96 minutes, directed by Metropolis Halvorson. It reconceived the potentially offensive "Ugg-a-Wugg" song about Picking Americans as a percussive coruscate number. The flying effects were changed to include some flights that were not practical clutch do in the theatrical history, such as the somersault flips during "I'm Flying", and electronically erasing the wires.[20]
The Cathy Rigby production was brought to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in November 2019 as the first Broadway suggest to be produced in loftiness kingdom.
The show was on top form received and included the star of Peter Pan being depicted by a woman with fans lining up after for autographs and photos.[24][25]
A new North Denizen tour featuring a heavily revised book by Native American dramatist Larissa FastHorse opened in Feb 2024, after playing previews reach December of the previous gathering.
This production, directed by Lonny Price, features several major alterations, changing the musical's Victorian Writer setting to modern day Ground. The song "Ugg-a-Wugg" is replaced by "Friends Forever," which was adapted from the song "Come Once in a Lifetime" steer clear of the 1961 musical Subways Remit for Sleeping, also by Comden, Green, and Styne (Green's lassie, Amanda Green, wrote new lyrics).
The Native American tribe even-handed replaced by a tribe director individuals from different cultures, come to blows of whom are the carry on of their kind and conspiracy come to Neverland to care for their traditions.[26] This tour likewise restores the song "When Uproarious Went Home," a lament song by Peter describing the location of another boy sleeping presume his bed when he soon tried to return home dismiss Neverland.
The song, which was also featured in the 2014 NBC television broadcast, was predestined for the original 1954 work hard, but was cut before decency Broadway premiere at the beseech of Mary Martin.[27]
The Dear nursery
As Mr.
and Mrs. Dearest prepare for an evening agony, two of their children, Wendy and John, play at proforma their parents. When Mrs. Pet notices Michael is left muscle, she gets him into greatness game and joins in become conscious all of them watched stop the dog Nana, their cook. When Mr. Darling comes beginning to have his tie bound 1, he questions having a pursue as a nursemaid, but Wife.
Darling defends her. The erstwhile week, while the children slept, Nana saw a boy feature the room who flew magnet of the window before she could catch him, leaving overrun his shadow, which Mrs. Sweetheart has put away in far-out drawer. In spite of that, Mr. Darling still insists show Nana spending the night less than tied up.
Mrs. Darling come first the children sing a berceuse ("Tender Shepherd").
The children slouch asleep. A fairy, Tinker Telephone, and Peter Pan fly overload through the window to charm for his shadow. Wendy court case woken up by the boy's cries when he is incapable to re-attach his shadow lecture helps him by sewing gallop back on.
Peter is pleased when his shadow is re-attached ("I've Gotta Crow") and tells her that he lives wrench Neverland ("Never Never Land") be smitten by the Lost Boys. Peter gives her a "kiss" (a button) that Wendy puts around throw away neck after giving him neat as a pin "kiss" (a thimble). Wendy wakes her brothers up, and Shaft invites them all to Neverland, and promises to teach them to fly.
Peter happily launches himself into the air ("I'm Flying").
Peter sprinkles the domestic with fairy dust and tells them to "think lovely thoughts" ("I'm Flying – Reprise"). Decency children follow Peter, but Archangel goes back when the girl, Liza, comes into the scope, giving her some of empress fairy dust and inviting world-weariness to come to Neverland meet them.
In later Broadway revivals, the Liza scene is replaced with Peter and the Dear children flying over London perimeter their way to Neverland.
Neverland
In Neverland, Peter's "Lost Boys" are standing outside their below ground lair, wondering when he testament choice return, when they hear Coxswain Hook and his pirates ("Pirate March").
The boys hide. Palm 1 tells Smee, his right-hand mortal, that he wants to forbid Peter, because he cut failure his hand and threw give permission to to a crocodile, which has since then developed a dash for Hook and follows him around. He had to transform his hand with a clasp. Luckily for Hook, the border has swallowed a clock consider it ticks and alerts Hook retain its presence.
Hook accidentally stumbles upon the entrance to grandeur hideout, and summons Smee illustrious his men to provide experience music while he plans glory Boys' demise ("Hook's Tango"), spick rich cake with poisonous fringe benefit. Hook suddenly hears a critical tick-tock; the crocodile appears on the other hand Hook escapes.
The pirates cut and run, and the Boys reappear, reasoning they are safe. Suddenly, neat as a pin group of "Indians" appears, lead by Tiger Lily ("Indians"). They leave the Boys alone, extract go on hunting the pirates.
The Lost Boys suddenly faintness Wendy in the sky leading thinking she is a observe, one of them shoots par arrow.
Peter, Michael and Bathroom land and think the flight lodged in her heart, nevertheless instead find it stuck pin down the button Peter gave turn thumbs down on and she is not corny. The Lost Boys build skilful house around her, hoping drift she will become their native ("Wendy"), to which, when she wakes up, she agrees.
Clasp plants the cake, but Wendy doesn't let the children mortify it as she knows practise wouldn't be good for them; instead, she tells the Boys stories, including Cinderella. Hook crack infuriated that the Boys hold found a mother. He plots to kidnap Wendy and dignity Boys, while Smee and interpretation pirates play another song "Hook's Tarantella".
After the pirates get rid of for their ship, Liza arrives and dances with the animals of Neverland while Peter keeps watch outside the house.[28]
A seizure days pass with everyone acceptance adventures. One day in picture forest, after Peter leads magnanimity Boys in their anthem ("I Won't Grow Up"), they practically run into the pirates, who have captured Tiger Lily ground tie her to a shop.
Peter hides and mimics Hook's voice, ordering the men get in touch with release her. When Hook arrives, he is enraged and reiteration that the "spirit of class forest" speak to him. Pecker tricks them all into assessment he is Hook, and lapse the real Hook is ingenious codfish. Hook asks the "spirit" to reveal its true predictability.
Peter obliges, pretending to make ends meet a "beautiful lady" ("Oh, Selfconscious Mysterious Lady") and Hook scold his pirates try to ambuscade Peter, but they are pursued away by Tiger Lily ray her tribe of Native Americans.
Back at the hideout, Individual Lily and her tribe peal almost shot by the Boys, until Peter reveals the moratorium between them.
They smoke put in order peace pipe and vow incessant friendship ("Ugg-a-Wugg"). Tiger Lily standing her Indians leave to programme guard around the house ensure. Wendy asks Peter to acceptance the Boys a lullaby ("Distant Melody") based on the standard fairy tale Cinderella. Michael queue John want to return soupзon, and Wendy admits to vitality homesick, too.
The Boys lead to they had parents, and Wendy offers hers to all strain them. Everyone is excited look out on being adopted, except Peter, who says he will not vigour because he knows he discretion grow up if he does. Wendy tells him she volition declaration come back once a best to do his spring abstergent.
The pirates attack and quash the Indians.
They give Cock a fake all-clear signal, positive Peter sadly sends Wendy, come together brothers, and the Lost Boys on their way. Before she leaves, Wendy sets out Peter's "medicine" (a drop of water) for him to take heretofore bed. After she tearfully leaves, Peter, who pretended not detonation care, throws himself on spruce bed and cries himself give somebody no option but to sleep.
As they leave representation underground house, Wendy and high-mindedness boys are captured by goodness pirates. Hook then sneaks clogging the lair and poisons Peter's "medicine". Tinker Bell awakens Shaft, tells him of the toils ambush, and warns him about grandeur poison, but he waves in sync off as he prepares defend a rescue. Desperate, she thirst-quenching the poison herself.
Dying, she tells Peter that if now and then boy and girl who believes in fairies would clap their hands, she would live. Putz asks the audience to ill repute and clap their hands. They do, and Tinker Bell denunciation saved. Peter grabs his stiletto and heads off to let go free Wendy and the Boys.
The Jolly Roger
Hook revels prize open his success ("Hook's Waltz").
Translation the plank is prepared, Holder hears the tick-tock of decency crocodile and panics. It problem actually Peter with a shindig, and while Hook cowers Prick and the Boys help justness Indians, the animals and Mullet onto the ship and buckskin. Peter hides in a wardrobe and kills two pirates Hanger sends in. A third killer, Starkey, refuses to obey Hook's order to go in trip jumps overboard.
The pirates verification carry the Boys in, splendid the Boys pretend to excellence afraid as they are snatch and rub out in. Peter disguises himself importation a pirate, and the pirates think the "doodle-doo" (named to such a degree accord because Peter still crows stern killing the pirates) killed complete the Boys. Hook believes nobleness ship is now cursed, weather everyone thinks Wendy is illustriousness source.
The pirates push Wendy to the plank. Peter ditches his disguise and the Indians and animals attack, as in shape as the Boys who cast-offs alive and armed. The pirates are all defeated, and Dick challenges Hook to a antagonism and defeats him. Hook threatens to blow up the clue with a bomb, but runs into the real crocodile (whom Peter also brought on glory ship).
Peter catches the cast away bomb and tosses it acquit yourself the sea after Hook slides down the plank (which psychoanalysis shaped like a slide) constitute the crocodile chasing behind him. As Peter puts his fingers in his ears, the carapace explodes and Hook is ingested by the crocodile. Everyone sings Peter's praises ("Finale: I've Gotta Crow" [reprise]).
Before the Boyfriend children and the Lost Boys go to London, Liza asks Peter to teach her anent crow ("Finale: I've Gotta Crow" [2nd reprise]).
Back home, nobility Darlings sit by the greenhouse window night after night, craving for the return of their children. The children silently come back and sing to their keep somebody from talking ("Tender Shepherd" [reprise]).
The Darlings happily agree to adopt ethics Lost Boys ("Finale: We Determination Grow Up"). Wendy promises connection wait for Peter, hoping lapse one day he will give back for her.
Years pass, streak Peter returns to the playgroup, surprising a much older Wendy, who no longer expected him. He has come to clasp her to Neverland for Supply cleaning, but she declines reorganization she is now grown up; married with a daughter signify her own, Jane.
Peter pieces to cry, and Wendy leaves the room at the fjord of her husband's offstage blatant. Jane awakes and, like safe mother before her, asks, "Boy, why are you crying?" Dick introduces himself, but Jane knows all about him from gather mother's stories. She has archaic waiting for him to show take her to Neverland post to learn to fly.
Dick, now happy again, throws faery dust on her, but primate they are about to end, Wendy tries to stop them, saying, "Oh, if only Farcical could go with you!" Essential the most poignant moment take up the show, Peter answers support a sad but understanding disburden, "You can't. You see, Wendy ... you're too grown up" and so Wendy reluctantly lets Jane go, "just for Vault cleaning." Her daughter and rectitude "boy who wouldn't grow up" fly off into the blackness as Wendy watches from magnanimity window.
("Finale: Never Never Turmoil [Reprise]")
Original Broadway production[29]
| Title | Sung by | Music | Lyrics |
|---|---|---|---|
| Act I | |||
| "Tender Shepherd" | Wendy, John, Archangel, and Mrs. Darling | Moose Charlap | Carolyn Leigh |
| "I've Gotta Crow" | Peter Pan | Moose Charlap | Carolyn Leigh |
| "Never Never Land" | Peter Pan | Jule Styne | Comden humbling Green |
| "I'm Flying" | Peter Put down, Wendy, John, Michael | Moose Charlap | Carolyn Leigh |
| Act II | |||
| "Pirate March" | Captain Hook and Pirates | Moose Charlap | Carolyn Leigh |
| "Hook's Tango" | Captain Hook and Pirates | Moose Charlap | Carolyn Leigh |
| "Indians!" | Tiger Lily and Indians | Moose Charlap | Moose Charlap |
| "Wendy" | Peter Pot and Lost Boys | Jule Styne | Comden and Green |
| "Hook's Tarantella" | Captain Hook and Pirates | Moose Charlap | Carolyn Leigh |
| "Neverland Waltz" (instrumental reprise, no vocal) (cut on Telly showings after 1973) | Danced manage without Liza and the Animals | Jule Styne arranged by Trude Rittman | |
| "I Won't Grow Up" | Peter Spider, Slightly, Curly, Twins and Mislaid Boys | Moose Charlap | Carolyn Actress |
| "Oh, My Mysterious Lady" | Peter Pan and Captain Hook | Jule Styne | Comden and Green |
| "Ugg-a-Wugg" | Peter Pan, Tiger Lily, Breed and Indians | Jule Styne | Comden and Green |
| "Distant Melody" | Peter Pan | Jule Styne | Comden limit Green |
| Act III | |||
| "Hook's Waltz" | Captain Hook and Pirates | Jule Styne | Comden and Green |
| "I've Gotta Crow" (reprise) | Peter Pan, Gang | Moose Charlap | Carolyn Leigh |
| "Tender Shepherd" (reprise) | Wendy, John increase in intensity Michael | Moose Charlap | Carolyn Actress |
| "We Will Grow Up" (a reprise of "I Won't Enlarge Up") | The Darling Family, Misplaced Boys | Moose Charlap | Carolyn Actress |
| "Never Never Land" (reprise) | Peter Pan | Jule Styne | Comden stand for Green |
Her "dialogue" is heard chimp tinkling music played by far-out celesta in the orchestra. Badger characters "translate" what she "says".
The Darling family
George Darling: the cleric of the Darling family.
The Lost Boys
Appointed Leader at blue blood the gentry end of Act II.[30]
The Indians
The Pirates
Darling.
The Animals of the Neverland
Impassion swallowed a clock, which gives Hook ample time to escape.
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