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Peter Pan had a sex change?

posted 16 years ago by iGiFF
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WTF? That is not appropriate for my daughter Eileen!

[–] newsfop 15 years ago

Learn your history pal. Every stage performance of Peter Pan has a young woman in the role of Peter Pan. If you just now figured this out, I'm not sure that your daughter is privy to the most open-minded of parents.

Brandon Lee was every bit as good as Ledger.

[–] Nekrophagia 15 years ago

Amen, newsfop.

[–] novastar_6 13 years ago

We watched this last night and my mother asked that too 'if he's supposed to be a boy, why is a girl playing him?', I don't really know but I've never enjoyed any version with an actual boy playing Peter, I grew up on the Mary martin version and I loved this one too, I think girls/women can play the boy better.

[–] jfd0210 9 years ago

I came here due to the recent "Live" performance on NBC...seeing if anyone made comparisons (I can't, as I only watched about five minutes of it).
I did note their board was riddled with similar comments, about "Peter Pan" being played by a female.
I just thought everyone knew this has always been the case, since the first performance by Maude Adams.

[–] Boromir (9712) 3 years ago

from People magazine:

"Apparently, it was Broadway producer Charles Frohman who suggested that a woman should play the role because casting a boy would affect the rest of the children in the ensemble, who “would have to be scaled down in proportion.” What’s more, English law stated that minors under the age of 14 couldn’t work after 9 p.m. As a result, a woman was first cast as Pan in 1904."

Peter Pan played by Nina Boucicault, Mary Martin, Sandy Duncan and Cathy Rigby. The first The original Peter Pan play by girl Nina Boucicault in 1904.

[–] chilidoggg (13119) 3 years ago

What do you call a girl with no arms and no legs at the beach? Sandy!

What do you call that same girl when she's in the water? Sandy Duncan!

[–] chilidoggg (13119) 3 years ago

Tonkerbell and Gus Gus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UazUY7Pc_O0