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Peter Pan Live!
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Genre Musical drama
Based on Peter Pan
by J.M. Barrie
Written past Irene Mecchi
Directed by Rob Ashford
Glenn Weiss
Presented by NBC
Starring
  • Allison Williams
  • Christian Borle
  • Kelli O'Hara
  • Taylor Louderman
  • Christopher Walken
Narrated past Minnie Driver
Composers Moose Charlap
Jule Styne
Carolyn Leigh
Betty Comden
Adolph Green
Amanda Green[ane]
Land of origin Us
Original language English
Production
Executive producers
  • Craig Zadan
  • Neil Meron
Producer Donna Suchan Smeland
Production companies Universal Television
Sony Pictures Idiot box
Release
Original network NBC
Original release December 4, 2014 (2014-12-04)
Chronology
Preceded by The Sound of Music Live!
Followed by The Wiz Alive!

Peter Pan Live! is a tv set special that was circulate by NBC on December 4, 2014. The special featured a live product of the 1954 musical adaptation of Peter Pan, televised from Grumman Studios in Bethpage, New York, starring Allison Williams in the title role and Christopher Walken every bit Helm Hook.

The production was a follow-up to The Audio of Music Live!—a similar adaptation of the 1959 play The Sound of Music which aired on NBC in December 2013 and brought the network'southward highest Thursday-night ratings since 2004. NBC's entertainment caput Bob Greenblatt would sign Craig Zadan and Neil Meron—who served as the executive producers of the special, to produce some other live musical for the 2022 holiday season. Additionally, the production served as a follow-upward to iii productions of Peter Pan produced for NBC in 1955, 1956, and 1960 that featured cast members from its original Broadway run. While like in content to the original, the version of Peter Pan featured in the special contained revisions to its book to emphasize the character of Captain Hook, along with additional songs from its revivals, new songs adapted from the musicals Exercise Re Mi and Say, Darling, and the restoration of a song that had been cut from the musical before its original Broadway premiere.

Cast [edit]

  • Christopher Walken as Helm Hook
  • Allison Williams as Peter Pan
  • Taylor Louderman as Wendy Darling[2]
  • Jake Lucas every bit John Darling[three]
  • John Allyn as Michael Darling[three]
  • Christian Borle equally Mr. Smee/George Darling[4]
  • Kathryn Terza as Liza Darling
  • Kelli O'Hara as Mrs. Darling[five]
  • Alanna Saunders as Tiger Lily[2]
  • Minnie Driver every bit adult Wendy/Narrator
  • Caitlin Houlahan as Jane
  • F. Michael Haynie equally Slightly Soiled
  • Jason Gotay as Tootles
  • Jacob and David Guzman as the Twins
  • Ryan Steele as Curly
  • Chris McCarrell as Nibs
  • Bryce Ryness equally Starkey
  • Michael Park every bit Cecco
  • Austin Lesch as Bill Jukes
  • Alan H. Green as Cookson
  • Chris Sullivan as Noodler
  • Ryan Andes equally Admiral Chrichton
  • John Arthur Greene as Mullins
  • Michael Hartung equally Sniffler
  • Garrett Hawe as Patches
  • Daniel Quadrino as Bunting
  • T.Oliver Reid as Oliver Shreeks
  • Gary Milner as The Vicar
  • Matt Wall as Skylights
  • Dyllón Burnside as Prickles
  • James Brown Iii, Dominique Kelley, Marty Lawson, Michael Munday, Andrew Pirozzi, C.J. Tyson, Keenan Washington, Charlie Williams, Alex Wong as Pirates/Lost Boys
  • Helen Anker, Stephanie Kim, Sarah O'Gleby as Dancers/Indians/Native American Tribe
  • Henry Gottfried as Peter Pan understudy/swing for lost boys

Development and production [edit]

In December 2013, NBC presented The Sound of Music Live!—a alive adaptation of the Broadway musical The Sound of Music that starred country music performer and singer Carrie Underwood and was produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. Later on bringing NBC's highest Thursday night ratings for entertainment programming since 2004,[6] NBC's entertainment caput Bob Greenblatt appear that the network would nowadays some other live musical for the 2022 holiday season, and that it had signed Meron and Zadan on to continue their role every bit producers. Greenblatt felt that at that place were enough recognizable, family-friendly musicals to make alive musicals an annual tradition, and noted that various theatrical rightsholders had expressed involvement in having their musicals adapted for telly in this fashion.[7] In January 2014, NBC announced that its adjacent musical would be an adaptation of the 1954 musical Peter Pan.[8] This would non be the beginning time that NBC had circulate a live production of Peter Pan, every bit a presentation featuring Mary Martin, Cyril Ritchard, and its original Broadway cast was presented by NBC on March 7, 1955, equally office of the anthology series Producers' Showcase. The telecast, produced by Fred Coe, was one of the highest-rated programs in the early history of television receiver,[9] [ten] Martin and Ritchard would reprise their roles in another live presentation in 1956, along with a color presentation in 1960 that was videotaped and rebroadcast several times afterwards.[xi]

Produced on a $10 million budget and broadcast live from the Grumman Studios in Bethpage, New York, the staff from The Audio of Music Live! was carried over to Peter Pan, including Zadan and Meron, forth with David Chase as music manager and Derek McLane as product designer. Whilst producing The Sound of Music Live!, Zadan and Meron shared a fondness for creating what Meron described every bit "moments of theatricality"—a do that carried over into Peter Pan Live!. Meron emphasized that the production would not be leap to the limitations of a traditional stage setting, allowing for larger sets, and "dynamic" camera angles and flying sequences. In full, he described the production as a "total assurance-out musical."[12] [13] The production employed a CGI version of Tinker Bell: rendered live and controlled by a technician, information technology expressed emotions and thoughts past changing its size and colour.[13]

Allison Williams, star of the HBO serial Girls and girl of NBC Nightly News ballast Brian Williams, was bandage as Peter Pan, standing an established tradition of females portraying the title character of the musical.[x] [12] Histrion Christopher Walken was bandage every bit Captain Hook; Walken showed doubtfulness for his part in the production due to its unique format, noting that "when you practise a [stage] prove, even if it isn't a striking, you're in previews for a few weeks and you become comfy in the role. This is rehearsed as a stage show, merely then the cameras are there. I'1000 never even sure when the camera is on me." In full, the production featured 46 bandage members, and a production coiffure of at least 350 members.[10] [12]

Admitting that Peter Pan was not as much of a "bona fide classic" as The Sound of Music, Meron's crew was given flexibility in revising the show's contents. Irene Mecchi — who is best known for her screenwriting contributions to films such as The Panthera leo King – was brought in to "strengthen and deepen" the portrayal of Captain Claw in the production.[12] Revisions were also made to its soundtrack, including the addition of new songs with lyrical adaptations by Amanda Green, the daughter of Adolph Green, who, with Jule Styne and Betty Comden, added some songs for later productions, including "Never Never Land".[one] New songs added to the product included the Captain Claw song "Vengeance", an adaptation of "Ambition" from the Styne-Comden-Green musical Practice Re Mi, "Simply Pretend", adapted from "I Know About Love", besides from Practice Re Mi, and the Peter and Hook duet "A Wonderful World Without Peter", adjusted from "Something'south E'er Happening On The River" from the Styne-Comden-Green musical Say, Darling. "When I Went Home", a song sung past Peter that was cut before the musical'southward 1954 premiere due to a "subdued" reaction in try-outs, was also restored for this production; Meron explained that the song would help viewers to "sympathise more than" about the character of Peter Pan.[1] [12] "Oh My Mysterious Lady", a song written with Mary Martin in mind, was cutting from the show[one] [12] while the song "Ugg-a-Wugg", which contained racially insensitive lyrics, was rewritten into a new song entitled "True Blood Brothers."[1] [12]

Every bit in The Sound of Music Live!, Walmart served equally a major sponsor of the telecast. NBC produced five themed Walmart commercials starring Melissa Joan Hart and her family, to air throughout the special. The commercials featured allusions to Peter Pan and presentations of products from the shop.[14] [xv]

Musical numbers and soundtrack [edit]

A soundtrack was released on both digital and concrete format by Broadway Records on December sixteen, 2014.[16]

  1. "Tender Shepherd" – Mrs. Darling, Wendy, Michael, John
  2. "I've Gotta Crow" – Peter
  3. "Never Never Land" – Peter
  4. "I'm Flight" – Peter, Wendy, Michael, John
  5. "Pirate Song" – The Pirates
  6. "Vengeance" – Hook and the Pirates
  7. "Hook'south Tango" – Hook and the Pirates
  8. "Indians" – Tiger Lily and the Indians
  9. "Wendy" – Peter and the Lost Boys
  10. "My Tarantella" – Claw and the Pirates
  11. "I Won't Abound Upward" – Peter, the Lost Boys, Wendy, Michael, John
  12. "Simply Pretend" – Wendy and Liza
  13. "Wonderful World Without Peter" – Peter and Claw
  14. "Truthful Claret Brothers" – Peter, Tiger Lily, Lost Boys, Indians, Wendy, Michael, John
  15. "Distant Melody" – Peter
  16. "When I Went Home" – Peter and Wendy
  17. "I'm Flying" (reprise) – Peter
  18. "Hook's Flit" – Hook and the Pirates
  19. "I've Gotta Crow" (reprise) – Peter and the company
  20. "Only Pretend" (reprise) / "Tender Shepherd" (reprise) – Mrs. Darling, Wendy, Liza, Michael, John
  21. "Nosotros Will Abound Upwardly" (reprise) – Mr. and Mrs. Darling, Wendy, Michael, John, Liza, the Lost Boys, Nana
  22. "Finale Ultimo: Never Never State (reprise)" – Peter

Reception [edit]

Peter Pan Live! aired on the night of December 4, 2022 on NBC and was met with immediate public and critical reactions, both positive and negative. Subsequently a mediocre reception to the network's The Sound of Music Alive! from 2013, many viewers were wary of the new production. Lead actress Allison Williams warned viewers in an interview with Entertainment Weekly: "I will say this well-nigh last yr: today's audiences like to watch things cynically. And I'm on a show that'due south cynical in tone so I'm no stranger to that … Hate-watching is a thing. It's a whole way of watching something, and information technology's not an audience that's natural to a not-cynical functioning. Peter Pan, yous cannot picket cynically. If you do, you're going to detest it, no question. Information technology falls apart instantly."[17] She said almost the opposite to NPR, which reported that NBC expected that "detest-watchers" would help the event to succeed.[18] Viewers shared their opinions on social media platforms using the hashtag #PeterPanLive and on the alive blog on The Guardian'south website, which gave such notes every bit: "Equally long and draggy and nonsensical as the prove was, NBC didn't spare any expense with the talent or production and they really pulled it off."[19] [20]

While many reviewers expressed relief that the circulate did not experience any major problems, disquisitional reviews were mixed overall.[21] The New Yorker panned the circulate, especially Williams and Walken.[22] The Associated Press called the production "an oddly ponderous, disconnected, disjointed and jerky mess. If it had been a Broadway show, information technology would have gotten the claw (pun intended)."[23] The New York Daily News gave it two of five stars, writing that "nosotros just weren't feeling the pixie dust".[24] As well, Variety chosen it "a woefully lifeless production".[25]

The A.Five. Club's Caroline Siede gave the product a B+, calling information technology superior to the previous year's functioning and a "colorful, competent, occasionally moving slice of musical theater", just assessing Williams every bit less strong a singer than Underwood.[26] Us Today gave it a generally positive review for the production, but questioned the new material.[27] Melissa Maerz of Entertainment Weekly besides gave it a mixed review calling information technology "Totally fine. ... Nix spectacular. But nothing so embarrassing equally NBC's live production of The Sound of Music".[28] The Hollywood Reporter gave the production a rave review, highlighting both Williams' and Walken's performances saying, "It was a night where everything else nearly the play was shunted to the side as Williams and Walken grabbed your attention. Everything that could go wrong didn't go wrong and that's a credit the myriad people behind the scenes who pulled it off."[29]

Viewership [edit]

Peter Pan Live! was seen in its original airing by 9.21 1000000 viewers with a ratings share of two.4/vii among adults 18–49, making it the nearly-watched program of the nighttime across the major networks—but trailing a Thursday Night Football game on NFL Network, which brought 9.1 million viewers, just had a larger 18–49 share of iii.2/10. The special also brought NBC its second-highest 18–49 ratings on Thursday night entertainment programming since The Sound of Music Live! before being surpassed by The Wiz Live! a year later. Greenblatt did not expect viewership for Peter Pan Live! to be equally high as that of The Sound of Music Alive!, but however felt that NBC had a "great night", and thanked the cast and crew for their interest in "3 months of the hardest piece of work I've ever seen."[30] Nielsen also estimated that over 475,000 posts were fabricated nigh the telecast on Twitter, which were seen 106.9 meg times—more than double the number of views that tweets during The Audio of Music Live! received.[thirty] The special retained 61% of its viewership, from beginning to end.[31]

A behind-the-scenes special, The Making of Peter Pan Live!, was broadcast past NBC on Nov 26, 2014[11] and seen by iii.02 million viewers.[32] NBC showed an encore presentation of Peter Pan Alive! on Sabbatum, December xiii, 2014.[33] The rebroadcast was seen by 1.5 1000000 viewers.[34]

Peter Pan Live! was included equally role of 'The Shows Must Get On' series of musicals launched past Andrew Lloyd Webber on YouTube in response to Covid-xix. It was originally intended to exist available for 48 hours from the 5th of June 2020, however in response to the Black Lives Matter motion it was postponed until the 20th of June 2020.[35] [36]

Accolades [edit]

Parodies [edit]

In 2014, in season 40 of Sat Dark Live, the bandage parodied the special, with guest star James Franco as Captain Claw, Cecily Potent as Peter Pan, Kate McKinnon as Wendy, Aidy Bryant equally Tonkerbell, Tinkerbell's one-half-sister who is part housefly and role fairy.[42]

Dwelling media release [edit]

A DVD of the special was released on December 16, 2014,[43] through Universal Studios Home Entertainment. The DVD includes the behind-the-scenes special, The Making of Peter Pan Live!.

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Farther reading [edit]

  • Carter, Bill (January 19, 2014). "NBC Plans Live 'Peter Pan' for Next Vacation Season". The New York Times . Retrieved 2014-12-05 .

External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • Peter Pan Live! at IMDb
  • Peter Pan Live! at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Peter Pan Live! at Metacritic Edit this at Wikidata

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