The run closed February 26, 1955
- Opened
- October 20, 1954
- Closed
- February 26, 1955
- Performances
- 152
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Winter Garden Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 168th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Peter Pan 10 more that season
| 1905 | Empire Theatre Original | 223 perf. |
| 1906 | Empire Theatre Return-Engagement | 40 perf. |
| 1924 | Knickerbocker Theatre Revival · Basil Dean | 96 perf. |
| 1928 | Civic Repertory Theatre Revival · Eva Le Gallienne | 28 perf. |
| 1950 | Imperial Theatre Revival · John Burrell | 321 perf. |
| 1979 | Lunt Fontanne Theatre Revival | 554 perf. |
| 1990 | Lunt Fontanne Theatre Revival · Fran Soeder | 45 perf. |
| 1991 | Minskoff Theatre Return-Engagement · Fran Soeder | 48 perf. |
| 1998 | Marquis Theatre Revival · Jerome Robbins | 48 perf. |
| 1999 | Gershwin Theatre Return-Engagement · Jerome Robbins | 166 perf. |
Who was in it42 named
Robert Banas
David Bean
Sally Brophy
William Burke
Linda Dangcil
Darryl Duran
Chester Fisher
Heller Halliday
Lisa Lang
Frank Lindsay
Suzanne Luckey
Frank Marasco
John Newton
Robert Piper
Jaye Rubanoff
Stanley Stenner
William Sumner
Alan Sutherland
Joan Tewkesbury
Paris Theodore
Arthur Tookoyan
Ian Tucker
Robert Vanselow
James White
Richard Winter
Richard Wyatt
Frank Bouley
Carle Erbele
Lucky Kargo
George Lake
Albert Linville
Jackie Scholle
10 of these 42 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 32 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Jerome Robbins
- Choreographer
- Jerome Robbins
- Producer
- Richard Halliday, Edwin Lester
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
- Peter Pan was recorded by Columbia (LP # OL-4312; CD # CK-4312), and included five of the revival’s six songs (“Never Land” was omitted) performed by cast members Boris Karloff and Marcia Henderson. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 49
- Following the Broadway production, a national tour of Peter Pan was headed by Veronica Lake and Lawrence Tibbett. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 50
- "The relatively short run of Peter Pan is misleading. The musical had enjoyed a long and profitable tryout in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and the virtually sold-out Broadway limited-engagement of sixteen weeks was stretched to nineteen." Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 416
- For more information about Peter Pan, see entry for the 1950 version, which had incidental songs written by Leonard Bernstein. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 420
- Throughout his career, Bernstein had occasionally contributed lyrics, going back to his first musical On the Town (1944) for which he cowrote the lyric of “I Can Cook, Too.” He also wrote the lyrics for the songs in his version of Peter Pan (1950), the text of Trouble in Tahiti , and the lyrics of “I Am Easily Assimila… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 653
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Peter Pan at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.