Peter Pan is a musical based on J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan and
his 1911 novelization of it, Peter and Wendy. The music is mostly by
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.The original 1954 Broadway production,
starring Mary Martin as Peter and Cyril Ritchard as Captain Hook,
earned Tony Awards for both stars. It was followed by NBC telecasts of
it in 1955, 1956, and 1960 with the same stars, plus several
rebroadcasts of the 1960 telecast. In 2014, the musical was broadcast
on NBC featuring several new numbers, and starring Allison Williams
and Christopher Walken. The show has enjoyed several revivals
onstage.Several productions of Peter Pan were staged early in the 20th
century, starting in London in 1904, starring Nina Boucicault as Peter
and on Broadway in 1905, starring Maude Adams. In a nod to the
original play, and the pantomime tradition it derives from, the title
role of Peter Pan in the musical is usually played by a woman,
including Mary Martin, Sandy Duncan and Cathy Rigby, among
others.Producer Edwin Lester, founder and director of the Los Angeles
Civic Light Opera, acquired the American rights to adapt Peter Pan as
a play with music for Mary Martin. The show was not successful in its
pre-Broadway West Coast tour, so director Jerome Robbins hired
lyricists Comden and Green and composer Jule Styne to add more songs,
including "Never Never Land," "Distant Melody" and several other
numbers, turning the show into a full-scale musical. The musical,
instead of using Barrie's original ending, in which Peter simply let
Wendy and the other children return home, includes an additional scene
that Barrie had written later and titled An Afterthought (later
included by Barrie in his 1911 novelization Peter and Wendy). In this
ending, Peter returns after many years to take Wendy back to Never
Never Land for spring cleaning. He finds that he has been away so long
that Wendy is now an adult, married woman with a daughter. Despondent
at first, he is delighted when Wendy's daughter Jane offers to be his
new mother, and instead takes her with him. Peter Pan (1954 musical) Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter