[Magdalen] Please! Clap your hands!

[Kate Conant]

I liked it better than the Mary Martin one.  I thought Allison Williams did
a great job.  I thought Christopher Walken was somewhat insipid as Captain
Hook, however.

"What does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, love mercy, and walk
humbly with your God?"
Micah 6:8

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Part of my (admittedly snarky) argument for having Justin Bieber play
> Peter, other than that he obviously hasn't grown up, was that he still
> sings soprano (well, sort of, anyway). The tattoos could be easily covered
> by body makeup. But of course NBC doesn't have the imagination to think of
> that, and Beeb wouldn't have the guts to do the flying thing, most likely.
>
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Well, I saw it for the first time when I was about 11. I knew she was a
> > woman, but I also remember how perfect she looked for the part--she had a
> > real gamin-like face and a pixie haircut.
> > Now, I don't especially like to see Amahl played by a girl, but that's
> > mostly because I know it wouldn't be that hard to find a boy soprano!
> >
> > > On Dec 5, 2014, at 12:39 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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
> > >>
> >
>