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Peter and The Starcatcher: Rick Elice Wayne Barker
Peter and The Starcatcher: Rick Elice Wayne Barker
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Art Manke
Bette and Wylie Aitken Alan and Olivia Slutzky
Honorary Producers Honorary Producers
Originally produced on Broadway by Nancy Nagle Gibbs, Greg Schaffert, Eva Price, Tom Smedes and Disney Theatrical Productions.
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Casting . .................................................................................... Joanne DeNaut, CSA
Assistant Stage Manager ...................................................................... Kristen Cruz*
SDC Foundation Observer/Assistant Director . .................................. Justin Lucero
Associate Accent Coach ................................................................... Andrea Caban
Costume Design Assistants ......................... Kaitlyn Kaufman, Adriana Lambarri
Assistant Lighting Designer . ................................................................... Kristin Neu
Assistant Sound Designer ................................................................. Brian Svoboda
Costume Design Interns .......................................... Julie Ann Carr, Elissa Forsyth
Stage Management Interns ............................................. Emily Burst, Ciara Heaps
Light Board Operator .................................................................... Andrew Stephens
Follow Spot Operator . ........................................................................... R.J. Romero
Sound Board Operator . .................................................................... Jacob Halliday
Wardrobe Supervisor/Dresser ............................................................... Bert Henert
Wig and Makeup Technician ............................................................... Jenni Gilbert
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ORIGINS PETER PAN ON STAGE
A T
lthough he appeared as a sec- here have been dozens of stage
ondary character in J.M. Barries versions of the story since Barries
1902 novel, The Little White Bird, original, most of them written
Peter Pan came into his own in Bar- and produced after the copyright ex-
ries 1904 play, Peter Pan, or The Boy pired. Among the most noteworthy:
Who Wouldnt Grow Up, which Barrie
later turned into a novel called Peter J The 1954 Jerome Robbins-direct-
and Wendy (1911). (After the success ed musical may have become the
of the play, the Pan chapters from The best loved stage version, but it was
Little White Bird were republished as preceded by an earlier musical ad-
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.) aptation that played on Broadway in
During the first 50 years after it was 1950. Although originally intended
written, the play appeared on a Lon- as a full-scale musical, it was finally
don stage more than 10,000 times. At presented as a straight dramatic ver-
the end of the novel, in a final chap- sion with five songs, whose music
ter called An Afterthought, Peter be- and lyrics were written by Leonard
friends Wendys daughter, Jane (and Bernstein. Frankenstein actor Boris
Janes subsequent daughter Marga- Karloff played both Mr. Darling and
ret), and it is suggested that this pat- Barrie describes Peter as a beautiful Captain Hook. Bernsteins original
tern will go on forever. boy with a beautiful smile, wearing score, including 45 minutes of mu-
an outfit made of autumn leaves and sic that was cut for the 1950 staging,
cobwebs. The character had two real-
...after the first production I life inspirations: Barries older broth-
had to add something to the er, David, who died at the age of 14
play at the request of par- and thus never grew up; and Michael
ents about no one being Llewelyn Davies, the second-young-
able to fly until the fairy dust est of the five boys born to Barries
close friend, Sylvia Llewelyn Davies.
had been blown on him; so
Barrie became guardian to the boys
many children having gone
after the deaths of their father in 1907
home and tried it from their and their mother in 1910. A famous
beds and needed surgical statue of Peter Pan in Londons Kens-
attention. ington Gardens was reputedly based
- J.M. Barrie on photos of Michael Llewelyn Davies
taken when he was six years old.
F
rom straight adaptations of his J Walt Disney made the character of
was restored in 2000 and has since story to liberal re-inventions, Peter Peter Pan his ownand even more
been performed in its entirety several Pan has been a fixture on film for so, Tinker Bell, who became a Disney
times. almost as long as movies have been emblemwhen he created his autho-
around. rized animated adaptation in 1953.
J The Bernstein musical lapsed Disney had planned to make Peter
into obscurity upon the debut of the J J.M. Barrie himself was involved in Pan right after his success with his
better-known 1954 musical version, the first film adaptation, a 1924 silent first animated feature, Snow White,
staged on Broadway by legendary di- movie made by Paramount. He wrote in 1937, but was delayed by rights
rector-choregrapher Jerome Robbins. a screenplay, but Paramount decided negotiations. He originally intended
With music by Mark Moose Charlap to use the original stage script and to begin the movie with the origin
and lyrics by Carolyn Leigh (as well took dialogue from it for the inter- of the character, Peter Pan, but in a
as additional songs by Jule Styne, titles. 1940 story meeting he changed his
Betty Comden and Adolph Green), mind, saying, We ought to get right
this is the version that baby boomers into the story itself, where Peter Pan
will remember from its several live comes to the house to get his shad-
TV performances during the 1950s, ow. Thats where the story picks up.
and todays youth may have encoun- He finished by observing, How Peter
tered in its December 2014 television came to be is really another story,
broadcast (when it was presented as thus anticipating the book, Peter and
Peter Pan Live!). It was also staged the Starcatchers by some 54 years.
by SCRs Summer Players in 2014. (Disneys publishing arm, Hyperion
Books, publishes the Starcatchers se-
J Rajiv Joseph, known at SCR as the ries.) In 2002, Disney released an ani-
author of the recent Argyros world mated sequel, Return to Never Land,
premiere, Mr. Wolf, has written the in which Wendys daughter, Jane, be-
book and lyrics for a new musical comes involved with Peter Pan against
called Fly, which had its world pre- the backdrop of World War II, and has
also created a series of seven direct-
Opposite page: The front cover of J.M. Bar- to-video films starring Tinker Bell.
ries Peter and Wendy, published in 1911,
and Boris Karloff as Captain Hook in the 1950
production. This page clockwise from top left:
J In 1991, another master architect
The 1954 Broadway poster; the original re-
of film fantasy, Steven Speilberg, re-
lease poster from the 1954 animated movie; leased his Peter Pan movie, Hook. The
the original poster from the 1924 film. story focuses on a grown-up Peter
A
rie and Kate Winslet as Sylvia Llewelyn great many authors have written
Davies, the mother of the five boys fictional accounts that retell or Because were telling a story,
who would become Barries wards. spin off from the Peter Pan story, thats the thing. Were not
Based on the play, The Man Who Was some for young readers, others for an trying to write for children.
Peter Pan, by Allan Knee, the film adult readership. But none has been Were just telling a story.
offers a fictionalized account of the more successful than the series of Ridley Pearson
relationship between Barrie and the Starcatcher novels written by humor-
Llewelyn Davies family. Following the ist Dave Barry and suspense author
death of their father, the boys find a Ridley Pearson. The two longtime In discussing how their version differs
playmate and surrogate father in Bar- friends had never collaborated on a from the original, Pearson observed
rie, who enjoys indulging in make-be- book, although they had been mak- that the female characters in Barries
lieve adventures with them, which he ing music together for years in a band story were all kind of weak. Barry
later incorporates into his play about called The Rock Bottom Remainders added, We both have daughters, and
boys who dont want to grow up. The (other members have included Ste- we wanted there to be a girl charac-
movie includes scenes from a produc- phen King, Scott Turow and Amy ter who was strong and brave. So we
Tan). ended up creating what turned out to
The 1991 movie poster for Hook; the Finding be my favorite character, this little girl
Neverland poster from 2004; the book cover I was reading Peter Pan to [my named Molly who really is the hero of
for Peter and the Starcatchers in 2006. daughter], Pearson recalled in an in- the book.
A. Allison Williams B. Robin Williams C. Jeremy Sumpter D. Cathy Rigby E. Mary Martin F. Robbie Kay
G. Michael Jackson H. Mia Farrow I. Sandy Duncan J. Bobby Driscoll K. Nina Boucicault L. Maude Adams
1. _____The very first actor ever to play the role of Peter on 7. _____One of the first real boys to play the role on screenin a
stage, when it premiered at the Duke of Yorks Theatre in Lon- 2003 live-action moviehe grew several inches during produc-
don on Dec. 27, 1904. Her father, Dion, was one of the most tion, requiring the filmmakers to twice enlarge the window he
successful actor-playwrights of the 19th century. flew through. Hint: The letters of his name, rearranged, spell my tree jumpers.
one of Columbus ships.
Hint: Her first name, which means little girl in Spanish, was also the name of
8. _____He played a grown-up version of Peter (renamed Peter
2. _____First to play the role on Broadway, beginning on Oct. 16, Banning) in a 1991 Steven Spielberg moviethe first Peter Pan
1905, she co-designed her costumes distinctive collar, which to have a cellphone. Hint: He was the voice of the genie in Disneys Aladdin.
became a fashion sensation called the Peter Pan collar.
Hint: She is related to the second and sixth U.S. presidents and shares their last name.
9. _____He played the character in televisions Once Upon a
Time, in which Peter was revealed to be the father of Rumpel-
3. _____The first male performer to play Peter on film (when he stiltskin.
adaptation).
was 15 years old). He was never actually seen in the role, because Hint: Like Sandy Duncan, he played both Peter Pan and Pinocchio (in a TV
he only supplied the voice for the 1953 Disney animated movie.
10. _____An Olympic gymnast, she played Peter in four successive
Hint: His first name is also a word for a British policeman.
T W
hen I came on board as playwright, [directors]
his new play about our hero of old, this boy Peter, Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, and Disneys bril-
resonates with us all, and with the glorious actors liant dramaturg, Ken Cerniglia, had already hit
and clever designers who gave it life, first of all, on a great organizing principle. Act One would
in La Jolla, California, then at New York Theatre take place on board two ships at seaall cramped quar-
Workshop, and now on Broadway. I see the characters ters, tiny cabins, claustrophobic, dark, wet, sinister. Act
emerging out of our island, our Neverland. Wendy has Two would take place on a tropical island, with bright
not yet appeared. Instead, we have Molly, sky and big, open spaces. In order to create a simple,
our hero, in a time before girls were en- stark environment in which to tell a young persons
couraged to be heroes; a generation story in an adult, muscular and surprising way, the direc-
before Wendy, name or girl, is born. tors embraced the style of Story Theater, or Poor The-
We have no Captain Hook either, or atera favorite technique of Alexs and the trademark
rather, we have no Hook yet. Instead, of Rogers great Royal Shakespeare Company triumph,
we have the pirate who shall become The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. The
Hook, but not until were through with him. He, dozen actors would play everyone and everything
whom the pitiful pirate kingdom calls Black Stache. sailors, pirates, orphans, natives, fish, mermaids, birds
We have our orphans, perpetually lost, though not ... even doors, passageways, masts, storms, jungles.
quite yet Lost Boys. We have natives and mermaids They would also narrate action and memory, giving
and a perilously hungry crocodile. Even Tinker each of them a privileged relationship with the audi-
Bell reaches our island before we leave it, ence. This would encourage the audience to be
because she could not stay away. more than spectators; it would invite
And we have a feral crea- them to play along, to partici-
ture, bent low from inces- pate, to imagine I aimed to
sant beating, afraid of his write a play seasoned with the
own shadowthe nameless boy contemporary, irreverent tone of Dave
at the center of our story. How ironic and Ridleys Peter and the Starcatchers and
that he learns what it is to be a man the stylistic flourishes employed by J. M. Barrie a
over the course of our play, when hundred years earlier for the original Peter Pan
hes destined to stay a boy forever high comedy and low, alliteration, puns, broad
When I was a boy, I wished I physical gags, songs, meta-theatrical anachro-
could fly, and the notion of being nisms, sentiment delivered so deftly that the
a boy forever was pure delight. No home- end of the play breaks your heart. My challenge
work, no chores, no responsibility, no sorrow. Now would be to write this new play in such a way that it
that Im in the middle of my life, I understand what Id merged the two disparate styles The marriage of clas-
have missed had I never grown up, or fallen in love, or sic and modern in the writing brings the Story Theater
stood my ground, or lost a battleor written a play aspect of the play into sharper focus. And the Story
James Barrie found his character by embracing the no- Theater style gave me the freedom to create a vast land-
tion of never growing up. I found mine by realizing I scape of far-flung places, physical and emotional. And
had. the wings to take you there.
Rick Elice, 2012 Rick Elice, 2014
Jaymi Lee Smith (Lighting Design) is thrilled to be Michael K. Hooker(Sound Design) is thrilled to
working at SCR again after working on The Stinky return to SCR, having previously designed A Light in
The Actors and Stage Managers em- The Scenic, Costume, Lighting and The Director is a member of the Soci-
ployed in this production are members Sound Designers in LORT theatres ety of Stage Directors and Choreogra-
of Actors Equity Association, the Union are represented by United Scenic phers, Inc., an independent national
of Professional Actors and Stage Man- Artists Local USA-829, IATSE. labor union.
agers in the United States.
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