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''Peter Pan'' is a musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's 1904 play ''Peter Pan'' and Barrie's own novelization of it, ''Peter and Wendy''. 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. 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. ==Background and original 1954 production== Several productions of Peter Pan were staged early in the 20th century, starting in London in 1904, starring Nina Boucicault as Peter〔Duke of York's Theatre. "Peter Pan.", Reviews, ''The Times'', 28 December 1904〕 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.〔Pilkington, Angel M. ("Peter Pan: Myth and Fantasy", ) ''Midsummer Magazine'', 2000, reprinted at the Utah Shakespearean Festival website, 2007〕 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.〔http://www.amazon.com/dp/155972160X〕〔http://www.allmusicals.com/lyrics/peterpan/---peterpansynopsis---.htm〕 The musical premiered at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco on July 19, 1954. The initial four-week run was followed by an eight-week engagement in Los Angeles.〔"Peter Pan (Original Broadway Production 1954)", VRTUR ()〕 The show opened on Broadway on October 20, 1954 at the Winter Garden Theatre for a planned limited run of 152 performances. The busy 1954 Broadway season also included ''The Boy Friend'', ''Fanny'', ''Silk Stockings'' and ''Damn Yankees''. While still in tryouts, a deal was made for ''Peter Pan'' to be broadcast on the NBC anthology series ''Producers' Showcase'' on March 7, 1955, which ensured that it was a financial success despite the limited run. The revised score and Tony Award-winning performances by Martin and Cyril Ritchard made the musical a critical success, and tickets sold out throughout the Broadway run. The show closed on February 26, 1955 to prepare for the television broadcast.〔〔Hanson, Bruce K. ''The Peter Pan Chronicles: The Nearly 100 Year History of the Boy that Wouldn't Grow Up''. Birch Press: 1993, pp. 213–14〕 A Broadway cast album was made of the songs, and it is still in print today. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Pan (1954 musical)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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