![]() This site is built by fans from all over the world who work to improve and expand it and make it a great resource for all things Peter Pan! As we strive to make as informative, accurate, up to date and organized as possible, there are many things which may have yet to be covered and need further improvement. We cover the original books as well as book retellings, and adaptations in all forms of media. Telecast live as part of the "Producer's Showcase," in color from the NBC Burbank Studios #2 and #4, with an audience, on 27 November 1957.The Peter Pan Wiki is a collaborative encyclopedia about everything relating to J. Donehue, starring Mary Martin as Annie Oakley and John Raitt as Frank Butler, William O'Neal as William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody. Following the successful 1955/56 "Peter Pan" telecast, the NBC Color network mounted a television production of Irving Berlin's Broadway stage musical "Annie Get Your Gun," directed by Vincent J. The musical has enjoyed several revivals onstage in 1979, 1990, 1998. The re-staged 1960 telecast had new children in the cast because the original kids had grown to old for their parts. Both of these broadcasts were produced live and in color, but only black-and-white kine-scope recordings survive.The telecast special followed with rebroadcasts in 1956, and in 1960 with the same stars, production costumes and scenery. So well received that the musical was re-staged live for television on 9 January 1956. Marry Martin won an EMMY Award for the television production. The television show attracted a then-record viewing audience of 65 million viewers, the highest ever up to that time for a single television broadcast program. On Marh 7, 1955, NBC presented "Peter Pan" live as part of "Producer's Showcase" as the first full-length Broadway production on color TV. The aim of the "Producers' Showcase" was to broadcast expensive color spectaculars to promote the new color television system developed by NBC's parent company RCA. "Peter Pan" opened on Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre on 20 October 1954, with a limited run of 152 performances, closing 26 February 1955, closed so that it could be broadcast on television, although box office continued to be strong throughout the Broadway run. #PETER PAN FULL MOVIE PART 1 SERIES#However, while still in Los Angeles, a deal was made for the musical to be broadcast on the NBC's Color Television network 90 minute anthology series "Producers' Showcase," that aired every fourth Monday, on March 7, 1955. The show opened in a busy Broadway season, competing with such notable shows as The Boy Friend, Fanny, Silk Stockings, and Damn Yankees. During the San Francisco performance schedule, additional musical material was ordered by Jerome Robbins and Edwin Lester, revisions continued when the expensive musical transferred to Los Angeles in August, 1954. Prior to opening in San Francisco's Geary Street theatre district's Curran Theatre, the production was rehearsed at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. ![]() Flying Supervisor Peter Foy and Flying Effect by Joseph Kirby. Scenic Design by Peter Larkin, Costume Design by Motley, Lighting Design by Peggy Clark. Directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins. Incidental music by Elmer Bernstein and Trude Rittman. The music is by Mark Charlap, with additional music by Jule Styne, most of the lyrics written by Carolyn Leigh, with additional lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. Barrie's 1904 play "Peter Pan" and Barrie's own novelization of "Peter and Wendy" as a stage musical for Mary Martin. The Los Angeles and San Francisco Civic Light Opera founder and producer Edwin Lester acquired the American rights to adapt the J. Technical Director Richard Rodda received a 1955 Tony Award for Best Stage Technician. Cyril Ritchard won a Tony for Best Performance by a leading Actor in a Musical for his dual role as Mr. ![]() ![]() Mary Martin, in the role of Peter Pan, received a Tony for Best Performance by a leading Actress in a Musical in the 1955 Tony Awards.
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