This fanlisting is for the musical Peter Pan.


Peter Pan is a musical adaptation of Sir J. M. Barrie's renowned play and novel, Peter Pan. The music is mostly by Mark "Moose" Charlap, with additional music by Jule Styne, and most of the lyrics were written by Carolyn Leigh, with additional lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. It was directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins and initially starred Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard on Broadway.


Original stage production
The show opened on October 20, 1954 at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York. It closed on February 26, 1955 after only 152 performances. Despite mixed reviews, it is remembered as one of the most memorable performances in the career of its star, Mary Martin. Originally conceived as a play with incidental music, it evolved into a full-scale musical during the show's West Coast tryout, when director Robbins called in composer Styne and lyricists Comden and Green to augment the existing score by Charlap and Leigh.

The show opened in a busy Broadway season, competing with such notable shows as The Boy Friend, Fanny, Silk Stockings, and Damn Yankees, However, while still in tryouts in Los Angeles, a deal was made for the show to be broadcast on NBC's Producer's Showcase on March 7, 1955. Contrary to what is sometimes claimed, the show closed so that it could be done on television, not because of any bad reviews or poor box office.[1] The network telecast, with the show's original cast, drew the largest ratings for a single television program up to that time. Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard had already won Tony Awards for their performances, and now Ms. Martin won an Emmy for the television production. It was so well received that the musical was restaged live for television in 1956, and, with a slightly different cast (the children had outgrown their roles), it was restaged yet again and videotaped for television in 1960, again on NBC. The 1960 edition was reshown several times.

For the 1960 telecast, the play was divided into five acts instead of the three into which the musical had been divided on stage. This was done to allow for commercial breaks between acts. To accomplish this, Acts II and III were split into two segments each.



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