Productions11 on Broadway
| 1905 | Empire Theatre Original. November 6, 1905 · predates this show | 223 performances |
| 1906 | Empire Theatre Return-Engagement. December 24, 1906 · predates this show | 40 performances |
| 1924 | Knickerbocker Theatre Revival. November 6, 1924 · Basil Dean · predates this show | 96 performances |
| 1928 | Civic Repertory Theatre Revival. November 26, 1928 · Eva Le Gallienne · predates this show | 28 performances |
| 1950 | Imperial Theatre Revival. April 24, 1950 · John Burrell · predates this show | 321 performances |
| 1954 | Winter Garden Revival. October 20, 1954 · Jerome Robbins | 152 performances |
| 1979 | Lunt Fontanne Theatre Revival. September 6, 1979 | 554 performances |
| 1990 | Lunt Fontanne Theatre Revival. December 13, 1990 · Fran Soeder | 45 performances |
| 1991 | Minskoff Theatre Return-Engagement. November 26, 1991 · Fran Soeder | 48 performances |
| 1998 | Marquis Theatre Revival. November 23, 1998 · Jerome Robbins | 48 performances |
| 1999 | Gershwin Theatre Return-Engagement. April 7, 1999 · Jerome Robbins | 166 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 5 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Peter Pan (1954 Broadway Version) matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
Read from the licensor's own pages and catalogues. Rights move, and an empty row means we have not confirmed a publisher, not that the show cannot be licensed.
In the literature39 passages
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. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p49
Following the Broadway production, a national tour of Peter Pan was headed by Veronica Lake and Lawrence Tibbett. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p50
"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." book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p416
For more information about Peter Pan, see entry for the 1950 version, which had incidental songs written by Leonard Bernstein. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p420
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… book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p653
During the 1950s, musicals continued to be the major fare at this theatre. In 1950 there was a successful adaptation of Peter Pan, with new music by Leonard Bernstein. Jean Arthur made a perfect Peter, and Boris Karloff doubled as Mr. Darling and the evil Captain Hook. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p179
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