![]() ![]() When Peter (Brandon Antonio) arrives in their bedroom and invites them to fly off with him to Never You Mind Land the children don’t know quite what to expect. In this version Wendy (Julie Lumsden), Michael (Jeremy Legat), and John (Joseph Zita) have fairly absent parents (David Light and Kelly Holiff), and they don’t know the story of Peter Pan, in fact Michael and John are much more captivated by tales of pirates. Thomason, and well known pop and rock classics. The music featured in the show is a beautiful mixture of songs by contemporary East Coast singer-songwriters including Ian Sherwood, Christina Martin, Heather Rankin and T. ![]() ![]() Webb also does a great job at bringing the heart of Peter Pan into the 21st Century by removing the plot points and characters that are racist and colonialist. The story is a great mixture of Barrie’s original, with definite tips of the hat to the 1991 Stephen Spielberg film Hook (which starred Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman), and told in the British Pantomime style: poking fun at itself, breaking the fourth wall, and weaving contemporary music and hyper-local jokes and references throughout. Barrie’s classic story Peter Pan, now playing at Neptune Theatre’s Fountain Hall Stage, in an extended run through January 11, 2020. Jeremy Webb is serving up a delightful platter of My Favourite Things in his Christmas Pantomime adaptation of J.M. ![]()
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