Peter and The Starcatcher: Rick Elice Wayne Barker
Peter and The Starcatcher: Rick Elice Wayne Barker
presents
                                                       Art Manke
	             Bette and Wylie Aitken 		                                            Alan and Olivia Slutzky
	                  Honorary Producers		                                                  Honorary Producers
Originally produced on Broadway by Nancy Nagle Gibbs, Greg Schaffert, Eva Price, Tom Smedes and Disney Theatrical Productions.
           PETER AND THE STARCATCHER is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
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                                                           PRODUCTION STAFF
      	 Casting . .................................................................................... Joanne DeNaut, CSA
      	 Assistant Stage Manager ...................................................................... Kristen Cruz*
      	 SDC Foundation Observer/Assistant Director . .................................. Justin Lucero
      	 Associate Accent Coach ................................................................... Andrea Caban
      	 Costume Design Assistants ......................... Kaitlyn Kaufman, Adriana Lambarri
      	 Assistant Lighting Designer . ................................................................... Kristin Neu
      	 Assistant Sound Designer ................................................................. Brian Svoboda
      	 Costume Design Interns .......................................... Julie Ann Carr, Elissa Forsyth
      	 Stage Management Interns ............................................. Emily Burst, Ciara Heaps
      	 Light Board Operator .................................................................... Andrew Stephens
      	 Follow Spot Operator . ........................................................................... R.J. Romero
      	 Sound Board Operator . .................................................................... Jacob Halliday
      	 Wardrobe Supervisor/Dresser ............................................................... Bert Henert
      	 Wig and Makeup Technician ............................................................... Jenni Gilbert
      	 Additional Costume Staff ............. Mary Bergot, Bronwen Burton, Lesly Ceballos,
      		                 Pauline Good, Lalena Hutton, Ashley Rigg, Sarah Timm, Helen Ton
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      ORIGINS                                                                                        PETER PAN ON STAGE
     A                                                                                              T
          lthough he appeared as a sec-                                                                 here have been dozens of stage
          ondary character in J.M. Barries                                                             versions of the story since Barries
          1902 novel, The Little White Bird,                                                            original, most of them written
     Peter Pan came into his own in Bar-                                                            and produced after the copyright ex-
     ries 1904 play, Peter Pan, or The Boy                                                         pired. Among the most noteworthy:
     Who Wouldnt Grow Up, which Barrie                                                             	
     later turned into a novel called Peter                                                         J The 1954 Jerome Robbins-direct-
     and Wendy (1911). (After the success                                                           ed musical may have become the
     of the play, the Pan chapters from The                                                         best loved stage version, but it was
     Little White Bird were republished as                                                          preceded by an earlier musical ad-
     Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.)                                                              aptation that played on Broadway in
     During the first 50 years after it was                                                         1950. Although originally intended
     written, the play appeared on a Lon-                                                           as a full-scale musical, it was finally
     don stage more than 10,000 times. At                                                           presented as a straight dramatic ver-
     the end of the novel, in a final chap-                                                         sion with five songs, whose music
     ter called An Afterthought, Peter be-                                                        and lyrics were written by Leonard
     friends Wendys daughter, Jane (and                                                            Bernstein. Frankenstein actor Boris
     Janes subsequent daughter Marga-                                                              Karloff played both Mr. Darling and
     ret), and it is suggested that this pat-            Barrie describes Peter as a beautiful      Captain Hook. Bernsteins original
     tern will go on forever.                            boy with a beautiful smile, wearing        score, including 45 minutes of mu-
                                                         an outfit made of autumn leaves and        sic that was cut for the 1950 staging,
                                                         cobwebs. The character had two real-
         ...after the first production I                life inspirations: Barries older broth-
         had to add something to the                     er, David, who died at the age of 14
         play at the request of par-                     and thus never grew up; and Michael
         ents  about no one being                       Llewelyn Davies, the second-young-
         able to fly until the fairy dust                est of the five boys born to Barries
                                                         close friend, Sylvia Llewelyn Davies.
         had been blown on him; so
                                                         Barrie became guardian to the boys
         many children having gone
                                                         after the deaths of their father in 1907
         home and tried it from their                    and their mother in 1910. A famous
         beds and needed surgical                        statue of Peter Pan in Londons Kens-
         attention.                                     ington Gardens was reputedly based
                             - J.M. Barrie               on photos of Michael Llewelyn Davies
                                                         taken when he was six years old.
                                                 F
                                                      rom straight adaptations of his           J Walt Disney made the character of
was restored in 2000 and has since                    story to liberal re-inventions, Peter     Peter Pan his ownand even more
been performed in its entirety several                Pan has been a fixture on film for        so, Tinker Bell, who became a Disney
times.                                           almost as long as movies have been             emblemwhen he created his autho-
	                                               around.                                        rized animated adaptation in 1953.
J The Bernstein musical lapsed                   	                                              Disney had planned to make Peter
into obscurity upon the debut of the             J J.M. Barrie himself was involved in          Pan right after his success with his
better-known 1954 musical version,               the first film adaptation, a 1924 silent       first animated feature, Snow White,
staged on Broadway by legendary di-              movie made by Paramount. He wrote              in 1937, but was delayed by rights
rector-choregrapher Jerome Robbins.              a screenplay, but Paramount decided            negotiations. He originally intended
With music by Mark Moose Charlap               to use the original stage script and           to begin the movie with the origin
and lyrics by Carolyn Leigh (as well             took dialogue from it for the inter-           of the character, Peter Pan, but in a
as additional songs by Jule Styne,               titles.                                        1940 story meeting he changed his
Betty Comden and Adolph Green),                                                                 mind, saying, We ought to get right
this is the version that baby boomers                                                           into the story itself, where Peter Pan
will remember from its several live                                                             comes to the house to get his shad-
TV performances during the 1950s,                                                               ow. Thats where the story picks up.
and todays youth may have encoun-                                                              He finished by observing, How Peter
tered in its December 2014 television                                                           came to be is really another story,
broadcast (when it was presented as                                                             thus anticipating the book, Peter and
Peter Pan Live!). It was also staged                                                          the Starcatchers by some 54 years.
by SCRs Summer Players in 2014.                                                                (Disneys publishing arm, Hyperion
                                                                                                Books, publishes the Starcatchers se-
J Rajiv Joseph, known at SCR as the                                                             ries.) In 2002, Disney released an ani-
author of the recent Argyros world                                                              mated sequel, Return to Never Land,
premiere, Mr. Wolf, has written the                                                             in which Wendys daughter, Jane, be-
book and lyrics for a new musical                                                               comes involved with Peter Pan against
called Fly, which had its world pre-                                                            the backdrop of World War II, and has
                                                                                                also created a series of seven direct-
Opposite page: The front cover of J.M. Bar-                                                     to-video films starring Tinker Bell.
ries Peter and Wendy, published in 1911,
and Boris Karloff as Captain Hook in the 1950
production. This page clockwise from top left:
                                                                                                J In 1991, another master architect
The 1954 Broadway poster; the original re-
                                                                                                of film fantasy, Steven Speilberg, re-
lease poster from the 1954 animated movie;                                                      leased his Peter Pan movie, Hook. The
the original poster from the 1924 film.                                                         story focuses on a grown-up Peter
                                                         A
     rie and Kate Winslet as Sylvia Llewelyn                  great many authors have written
     Davies, the mother of the five boys                      fictional accounts that retell or        Because were telling a story,
     who would become Barries wards.                         spin off from the Peter Pan story,       thats the thing. Were not
     Based on the play, The Man Who Was                  some for young readers, others for an         trying to write for children.
     Peter Pan, by Allan Knee, the film                  adult readership. But none has been           Were just telling a story.
     offers a fictionalized account of the               more successful than the series of                            Ridley Pearson
     relationship between Barrie and the                 Starcatcher novels written by humor-
     Llewelyn Davies family. Following the               ist Dave Barry and suspense author
     death of their father, the boys find a              Ridley Pearson. The two longtime           In discussing how their version differs
     playmate and surrogate father in Bar-               friends had never collaborated on a        from the original, Pearson observed
     rie, who enjoys indulging in make-be-               book, although they had been mak-          that the female characters in Barries
     lieve adventures with them, which he                ing music together for years in a band     story were all kind of weak. Barry
     later incorporates into his play about              called The Rock Bottom Remainders          added, We both have daughters, and
     boys who dont want to grow up. The                 (other members have included Ste-          we wanted there to be a girl charac-
     movie includes scenes from a produc-                phen King, Scott Turow and Amy             ter who was strong and brave. So we
                                                         Tan).                                      ended up creating what turned out to
     The 1991 movie poster for Hook; the Finding                                                    be my favorite character, this little girl
     Neverland poster from 2004; the book cover          I was reading Peter Pan to [my            named Molly who really is the hero of
     for Peter and the Starcatchers in 2006.             daughter], Pearson recalled in an in-     the book.
A. Allison Williams B. Robin Williams C. Jeremy Sumpter D. Cathy Rigby E. Mary Martin F. Robbie Kay
G. Michael Jackson H. Mia Farrow I. Sandy Duncan J. Bobby Driscoll K. Nina Boucicault L. Maude Adams
1.	 _____The very first actor ever to play the role of Peter on                                7.	 _____One of the first real boys to play the role on screenin a
    stage, when it premiered at the Duke of Yorks Theatre in Lon-                                 2003 live-action moviehe grew several inches during produc-
    don on Dec. 27, 1904. Her father, Dion, was one of the most                                    tion, requiring the filmmakers to twice enlarge the window he
    successful actor-playwrights of the 19th century.                                              flew through.    Hint: The letters of his name, rearranged, spell my tree jumpers.
        one of Columbus ships.
        Hint: Her first name, which means little girl in Spanish, was also the name of
                                                                                               8.	 _____He played a grown-up version of Peter (renamed Peter
2.	 _____First to play the role on Broadway, beginning on Oct. 16,                                 Banning) in a 1991 Steven Spielberg moviethe first Peter Pan
    1905, she co-designed her costumes distinctive collar, which                                  to have a cellphone.         Hint: He was the voice of the genie in Disneys Aladdin.
    became a fashion sensation called the Peter Pan collar.
    Hint: She is related to the second and sixth U.S. presidents and shares their last name.
                                                                                               9.	 _____He played the character in televisions Once Upon a
                                                                                                   Time, in which Peter was revealed to be the father of Rumpel-
3.	 _____The first male performer to play Peter on film (when he                                   stiltskin.
                                                                                                   adaptation).
    was 15 years old). He was never actually seen in the role, because                             Hint: Like Sandy Duncan, he played both Peter Pan and Pinocchio (in a TV
    he only supplied the voice for the 1953 Disney animated movie.
                                                                                               10.	 _____An Olympic gymnast, she played Peter in four successive
                              Hint: His first name is also a word for a British policeman.
      T                                                            W
                                                                              hen I came on board as playwright, [directors]
           his new play about our hero of old, this boy Peter,                Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, and Disneys bril-
           resonates with us all, and with the glorious actors                liant dramaturg, Ken Cerniglia, had already hit
           and clever designers who gave it life, first of all,               on a great organizing principle. Act One would
           in La Jolla, California, then at New York Theatre       take place on board two ships at seaall cramped quar-
      Workshop, and now on Broadway. I see the characters          ters, tiny cabins, claustrophobic, dark, wet, sinister. Act
      emerging out of our island, our Neverland. Wendy has         Two would take place on a tropical island, with bright
                 not yet appeared. Instead, we have Molly,         sky and big, open spaces. In order to create a simple,
                    our hero, in a time before girls were en-      stark environment in which to tell a young persons
                        couraged to be heroes; a generation        story in an adult, muscular and surprising way, the direc-
                          before Wendy, name or girl, is born.     tors embraced the style of Story Theater, or Poor The-
                          We have no Captain Hook either, or       atera favorite technique of Alexs and the trademark
                          rather, we have no Hook yet. Instead,    of Rogers great Royal Shakespeare Company triumph,
                       we have the pirate who shall become         The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. The
      Hook, but not until were through with him. He,               dozen actors would play everyone and everything
      whom the pitiful pirate kingdom calls Black Stache.            sailors, pirates, orphans, natives, fish, mermaids, birds
      We have our orphans, perpetually lost, though not               ... even doors, passageways, masts, storms, jungles.
      quite yet Lost Boys. We have natives and mermaids                They would also narrate action and memory, giving
      and a perilously hungry crocodile. Even Tinker                    each of them a privileged relationship with the audi-
      Bell reaches our island before we leave it,                          ence. This would encourage the audience to be
      because she could not stay away.                                                  more than spectators; it would invite
      And we have a feral crea-                                                                them to play along, to partici-
      ture, bent low from inces-                                                               pate, to imagine  I aimed to
      sant beating, afraid of his                                                             write a play seasoned with the
      own shadowthe nameless boy                                                       contemporary, irreverent tone of Dave
      at the center of our story. How ironic                                      and Ridleys Peter and the Starcatchers and
      that he learns what it is to be a man                                 the stylistic flourishes employed by J. M. Barrie a
      over the course of our play, when                                     hundred years earlier for the original Peter Pan
      hes destined to stay a boy forever                                    high comedy and low, alliteration, puns, broad
      When I was a boy, I wished I                                          physical gags, songs, meta-theatrical anachro-
      could fly, and the notion of being                                     nisms, sentiment delivered so deftly that the
      a boy forever was pure delight.           No home-                     end of the play breaks your heart. My challenge
      work, no chores, no responsibility, no sorrow. Now           would be to write this new play in such a way that it
      that Im in the middle of my life, I understand what Id     merged the two disparate styles  The marriage of clas-
      have missed had I never grown up, or fallen in love, or      sic and modern in the writing brings the Story Theater
      stood my ground, or lost a battleor written a play         aspect of the play into sharper focus. And the Story
      James Barrie found his character by embracing the no-        Theater style gave me the freedom to create a vast land-
      tion of never growing up. I found mine by realizing I        scape of far-flung places, physical and emotional. And
      had.                                                         the wings to take you there.
                                               Rick Elice, 2012                                               Rick Elice, 2014
Jaymi Lee Smith (Lighting Design) is thrilled to be         Michael K. Hooker(Sound Design) is thrilled to
working at SCR again after working on The Stinky            return to SCR, having previously designed A Light in
            The Actors and Stage Managers em-          The Scenic, Costume, Lighting and                   The Director is a member of the Soci-
            ployed in this production are members      Sound Designers in LORT theatres                    ety of Stage Directors and Choreogra-
            of Actors Equity Association, the Union   are represented by United Scenic                    phers, Inc., an independent national
            of Professional Actors and Stage Man-      Artists Local USA-829, IATSE.                       labor union.
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