[Magdalen] Please! Clap your hands!

[Jay Weigel]

I refuse to watch it. Grown women playing Peter....ICK! Indeed! Actually I
was only half joking last year when someone asked me who I thought should
play Peter Pan and I said Justin Bieber. Perfect example of type casting,
to my eye.

On Thursday, December 4, 2014, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, we did it again.  We watched the latest version of Peter Pan.
>
> Each generation repeats the same liturgy.  We laugh out loud with delight
> as the children learn to fly.
>
> As Tinkerbelle is dying, we all clap our hands -- "Yes! We believe in
> faeries!" -- and, yes maybe a trace of a tear, as we watch Tink's light
> return.
>
> Wendy grows up and Peter returns to bring her back to Neverland for Spring
> cleaning, but it's too late for her. She's grown up now.
>
> But her daughter will go with Peter.  And, some day, maybe her daughter,
> and her daughter's daughter...
>
> I remember watching the incomparable Mary Martin play Peter -- just a few
> moments ago.
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
> for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
> on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente
>