Theater
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Step Toward Progress: Children's Theatre Updates 'Peter Pan's' Lost Boys to Girl Gang, NBC to Premiere Thursday
In these progressive times, concerns over old productions — like the 100-year-old classic "Peter Pan" — are subject to revision. With a live production on NBC this Thursday, Dec. 4, starring Christopher Walken, Music Theatre International is considering updating the play's undertones of post-colonialism to a more politically correct version.Playwright and choreographer Larissa FastHorse felt it fit to produce a counterpoint to the famous "Lost Boys," which some feel is a crude assimilation of early Native American anxieties. Thus, she created a new gang of powerful and diverse girls, per (Minneapolis) "Star Tribune," now known as "The Pounce."Interesting, indeed.But the new idea became so immediately accepted by Music Theatre International, a licensing company that controls the performance rights to "Peter Pan," that it has been adopted as the new standard for any future staging. EXCLUSIVE: Classicalite Q&A with Tim Hecker on Tinnitus Music Series with Loren M. Connors, 'Black Mountain Songs' at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bedroom Community Label
Sound artist Tim Hecker has held our ears ever since we heard him with Daniel Lopatin at Roulette. His lastest incarnation, though, hears him in the same vein as guitar legend Loren M. Connors and, yes, Arcade Fire and The National.
