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The production was a follow-up to The Sound of Music Live!—a similar adaptation of the 1959 play The Sound of Music which aired on NBC in December 2013 and brought the network's highest Thursday-night ratings since 2004.
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The Sound of Music Live! is an American television special that was originally broadcast by NBC on December 5, 2013. Directed by Rob Ashford and Beth McCarthy-Miller, produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, and written by Austin Winsberg, the special was an adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1959 Broadway musical The Sound of Music.
* "Peter Pan Live!", the follow-up to last year's " The Sound of Music Live!", will be broadcast Dec. 4 at 8/7c on NBC, and here in the Playbill Vault, we're passing the time until it begins by...
“Peter Pan” could have been just the beginning of live TV programming; by 1960, a senior assistant to Weaver was suggesting “NBC would have a program schedule which is not predictable on a ...
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- The curtain rose on the first Broadway version of Peter Pan in 1905. Nina Boucicault (Peter Pan) and Hilda Trevelyan (Wendy) in the original 1904 production.
- Maude Adams was Broadway’s first Peter. According to Slate, famed theater producer Charles Frohman—he also produced the New York premiere of The Importance of Being Earnest in 1895—insisted that Barrie cast his protégé, Maude Adams, in the title role.
- The musical version we know and love today—and which NBC will Broadcast live tonight—made its Broadway debut in 1954. According to Playbill, Peter Pan first appeared on Broadway in 1950.
- Robbins brought in the big guns to spruce up the musical. Most of the Peter Pan music was written by Mark “Moose” Charlap, with lyrics by Carolyn Leigh.
Dec 3, 2014 · Officially titled "Peter Pan Live!," this three-hour event is a follow-up to last year's live "The Sound of Music," which drew an astonishing 18.6 million viewers. Why "Peter Pan" this...
Dec 4, 2014 · Nothing spectacular. But nothing so embarrassing as NBC’s live production of The Sound of Music, which drew 22 million viewers, along with complaints that Carrie Underwood had “all the...
