Peter Pan Live!

Peter Pan Live!
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GenreMusical drama
Based onPeter Pan
by J.M. Barrie
Written byIrene Mecchi
Directed byRob Ashford
Glenn Weiss
Presented byNBC
Starring
Narrated byMinnie Driver
ComposersMoose Charlap
Jule Styne
Carolyn Leigh
Betty Comden
Adolph Green
Amanda Green[1]
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producers
ProducerDonna Suchan Smeland
Production companiesUniversal Television
Sony Pictures Television
Original release
NetworkNBC
ReleaseDecember 4, 2014 (2014-12-04)
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Peter Pan Live! is an American television special that was broadcast by NBC on December 4, 2014. The special featured a live production of the 1954 musical adaptation of Peter Pan, televised from Grumman Studios in Bethpage, New York, starring Allison Williams in the title role and Christopher Walken as Captain Hook.

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. NBC's entertainment head Bob Greenblatt would sign Craig Zadan and Neil Meron—who served as the executive producers of the special, to produce another live musical for the 2014 holiday season. Additionally, the production served as a follow-up to three productions of Peter Pan produced for NBC in 1955, 1956, and 1960 that featured cast members from its original Broadway run. While similar in content to the original, the version of Peter Pan featured in the special contained revisions to its book to emphasize the character of Captain Hook, along with additional songs from its revivals, new songs adapted from the musicals Do Re Mi and Say, Darling, and the restoration of a song that had been cut from the musical before its original Broadway premiere.

  1. ^ "All about the new songs in 'Peter Pan Live!' -- and how the show's handling 'Ugg-a-Wugg'". Inside TV. Entertainment Weekly. November 18, 2014. Retrieved November 18, 2014.