Theatre Register
Mary_Martin_Peter_Pan_1960.jpg

Peter Pan

Shows · Peter Pan

When Jerome Robbins decided that the time was ripe to stage a new version of Peter Pan, with Mary Martin as the boy who wouldn’t grow up and Cyril Ritchard as Captain Hook, he initially planned to use only a few incidental songs by newcomers Mark Charlap and Carolyn Leigh. After the play began evolving into a full-fledged musical, however, he went to the more experienced team of Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Gr…

Opened
1954
Performances
152
Type
Musical
Era
Golden Age
Music: Mark Charlap*; Jule Styne**Lyrics: Carolyn Leigh*; Betty Comden & Adolph Green**

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

Passages naming this show, found by keyword across 178 books. Where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.

Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.