Peter Pan is a 1950 musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's 1904 play
Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up with music and lyrics by
Leonard Bernstein; it opened on Broadway on April 24, 1950. This
version starred Jean Arthur as Peter Pan, Boris Karloff in the dual
roles of George Darling and Captain Hook, and Marcia Henderson as
Wendy. The show was orchestrated by Hershy Kay and conducted by
Benjamin Steinberg. The show ran for 321 performances, closing on
January 27, 1951.The production was initially intended as a full-blown
musical, with Bernstein composing a complete score for it, but was
staged with only five songs â€" "Who Am I?", "Pirate's Song", "Plank
Round", "Build My House", and "Peter Peter" â€" to accommodate the
limited vocal ranges of the principals.In 1998, conductor Alexander
Frey began research into whether there may have existed more material
that Bernstein had composed for Peter Pan. Over the next seven years,
as his schedule allowed, he discovered and restored almost an hour of
previously unheard music, much of the material found (and not yet
orchestrated) in the archives of the composer's manuscripts. The
restored songs included "Captain Hook Soliloquy" and "Dream With Me",
as well as other sung material, dance music and orchestral interludes.
The world premiere recording of Bernstein's complete score was
released on CD in 2005, conducted by Alexander Frey, and featuring
Broadway star Linda Eder in the role of Wendy Darling, and acclaimed
baritone Daniel Narducci as Captain Hook, on the Koch International
Classics label.In September 2008 the world premiere performance of the
full Bernstein score was performed in concert with Alexander Frey
conducting the Gulbenkian Orchestra, with dialogue adapted from the
original J. M. Barrie play by Nina Bernstein Simmons. Three
performances were given in Cascais, Portugal, for a combined audience
of over 10,000 people, and featured Geraldine James (narrator), John
Sackville-West (Peter Pan), Charlotte Ellett and Rachel Nicholls
(Wendy) and Nicholas Lester (Captain Hook). Peter Pan (1950 musical) Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter