![]() Marling’s sound design are all first-rate. ![]() Gary Wissman’s sets, cast member James’ costumes, Michael Philippi’s lighting (especially his twinkly green Tinker Bell), and David B. Bertling, Angelica Lawrence, and Matthew Tavianini.Īlbert Ihde’s direction is pretty much spot-on, never letting characters become caricatures, and impeccable musical direction is provided by Richard Weiss, with Alexander Frey conducting a symphonic seventeen-piece orchestra. Completing the excellent adult cast are Deborah M. Steven Jones (Bill Jukes), David King (Cecco), and Trevor Dow as a cute-as-a-noodle Noodler. The pirates, all of whom merit a thumbs-up (or should that be a hooks-up?), also include James as Gentleman Starkey), Frank Artusio (Cookson), R. ![]() Miller James makes for a perfectly loveable canine nanny Nana and Sara Nachlis gets laughs merely by crawling across the stage as the tick-tocking crocodile. Not surprisingly, the comic band of pirates (headed by an amusing Chet Carlin as Smee) get the show’s biggest laughs, and the children (Jordan Lemmond as John and Ryan Dalforno as Michael, plus a dozen pintsized Lost Boys, Pirates, and Mermaids) are a energetic bunch each and every one. Darling with warmth and depth (as well as providing the tale’s offstage narration). Supporting performances are uniformly fine, beginning with the always wonderful Carolyn Hennesy, who embues Mrs. Darling.) Sarah Bierstock does fine, assured work as a psychologically deeper than usual Wendy, and lends her lovely soprano to “Who Am I?”, “Dream With Me,” and “Spring Will Come Again.” (Interestingly, in Bernstein’s Peter Pan, Peter doesn’t sing a note.) The baby!” (The splendid Yacko also doubles as Mr. Besides the rarity of seeing the role played by an actress under the age of fifty, SBT’s Peter Pan features a stellar turn by Robert Yacko as Captain Hook, whose motto here iis “Eat blood, drink blood, think blood.” Less broadly drawn that the most famous Hook of all, Cyril Ritchard, Yacko’s Captain is both dastardly and deliciously funny, especially in “Hook’s (comically operatic) Soliloquy,” in which he bemoans the fact that “no little children love me” and that when children play Peter Pan, “they’d rather be a Smee than Hook. The plusses in SBT’s staging are many, beginning with a saucy, spunky Peter portrayed by 18-year-old Corina Boettger. The Santa Barbara Theatre has rescued Bernstein’s Peter Pan (which originally starred Jean Arthur and Boris Karloff) from obscurity, and anyone curious about the “missing” Peter has a few more days to catch its first American production in fifty-eight years. Barrie’s original 1904 script by the then 32-year-old Bernstein for a Broadway production, one which has since been eclipsed by the far better-known 1953 Walt Disney animated film and the 1954 Broadway musical comedy (starring Mary Martin, and oft revived with either Sandy Duncan or Cathy Rigby). ![]() Yes, in 1950, songs and background music were added to J.M. Songs that probably don’t pop into folks’ heads are “Who Am I?”, “Build My House,” and “Spring Will Come Again” (music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by … Leonard Bernstein). If asked what songs they associate with Peter Pan, most people would likely answer with “I’m Flying,” “I Won’t Grow Up,” or “I’ve Gotta Crow” from the Broadway/TV musical (music and lyrics by “Moose” Charlap and a quintet of others), or “Second Star To The Right,” “Following The Leader,” or “You Can Fly!” (music and lyrics by the Sammys (Fain and Cahn) among others).
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