[Magdalen] Please! Clap your hands!

[Jay Weigel]

I guess I'm a grinch. I hated it. It was always all wrong to me for a woman
to be playing Peter. Especially a *grown* woman.

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I absolutely adored the Mary Martin Peter Pan production and watched it
> every year for a long time. Even had the soundtrack. For me, that was the
> ultimate Peter Pan.
>
> > On Dec 5, 2014, at 8:39 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > A great puzzle piece fell into place after I saw the first televised
> > Peter Pan. My mother was putting me to bed, and I asked,
> > "He was very beautiful for a boy, wasn't he?"
> >
> > "That was no boy," my mother replied. "That was a woman."
> >
> > My whole life changed in that one minute. I remember lying
> > awake, full of thought of new possibilities.
> >
> > That said, I watched a few minutes of last night's show and
> > changed the channel. She annoyed me. I hate it when women
> > substitute stridency for bravado. It's the director's fault, of
> > course.
> > -M
>