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Peter Pan is a 1950 musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie 's 1904 play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up with music and lyrics by Leonard Bernstein; it opened on Broadway on April 24, 1950. [1]
The history of Leonard Bernstein’s songs and incidental music for J.M. Barrie’s play Peter Pan is a complicated one. His involvement in the 1950 Broadway production, starring Boris Karloff and Jean Arthur, was relatively minimal in comparison to his other Broadway works.
- On the Town (1944) On the Town sprang from a ballet, Fancy Free, which Bernstein collaborated on with choreographer Jerome Robbins. Betty Comden and Adolph Green provided the book and lyrics for the musical (and costarred in the original Broadway production).
- Peter Pan (1950) This adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan was a “play with songs” that predated the Mary Martin-led musical televised by NBC. Bernstein was asked to compose incidental music and dances for the show, but “losing his head” in the excitement of the project, he wrote seven additional songs.
- Wonderful Town (1953) Not to be confused with On the Town, Wonderful Town is another musical set in New York City with music by Bernstein and lyrics by Comden and Green.
- Candide (1956) Bernstein composed the music to this “comic operetta,” and an array of writers contributed to the book and lyrics. The first librettist was Lillian Hellman, who came up with the idea of musicalizing Voltaire’s satire.
Dec 11, 2008 · The venerated, versatile composer/conductor created four memorable musicals, but 1954’s Peter Pan, which Mary Martin famously performed on the new medium of television, was not one of them. But dig a little deeper into Broadway history and you’ll discover a hidden treasure.
Jun 26, 2018 · The project came about when Gideon Lester, the artistic director for theater and dance at Bard, searched for a rarity to celebrate Bernstein’s centennial year and stumbled onto “Peter Pan.”
Jul 31, 2018 · Among innumerable performances and tributes paid to Leonard Bernstein in this centennial year, only one tackles his youthful adaptation of Peter Pan, which, in 1950, in an incomplete form, enjoyed a great, but forgotten success on Broadway.
Dec 4, 2014 · According to Playbill, Peter Pan first appeared on Broadway in 1950. But because it only had five songs (written by Leonard Bernstein), it was more of a play with musical numbers than an actual...
