Jordan: Glad to see your sense of taste is as far off as your youth. (Apologies to Jerry Herman for so abusing his line.)
tazber: Really? That's pretty much the only back story Steinman has ever given these songs. He's been working on this (in some form or another) since his college days in 1969. Think Brecht's
Baal crossed with
Star Wars, crossed with
A Clockwork Orange, crossed with
West Side Story, with a dash of rock and roll, and a thin skein of
Peter Pan over the top. Peter Pan played as gang warfare in a post-apocalyptic NY -- I couldn't make this up if I tried.
He's announced this numerous times before, more regularly since 2006; the Showbiz411 article alludes to a planned West End run, but it leaves out the fact that the original West End run was to have been a "Cirque du Soleil on acid" spectacle in a specially designed venue, with BMX riders, motorcyclists doing astounding stunts in mid-air, parkour, 3-D visuals, and a corps of amazing dancers from around the world. A creative team was announced that rivaled, and in some cases presaged, the unfortunate
Spider-Man (the redoubtable and late Eiko Ishioka on costumes, Mark Fisher on set and theater design, animation by Gerald Scarfe, lighting by Marc Brickman, artistic involvement by ILM in their first stage venture, and backing from Sony/BMG).
As with
DOTV, Steinman was picking creatives too small to deal with a spectacular spectacular, like Wilson Milam to direct, and Stephen Clark to co-author the book, both of whom have reportedly since been jettisoned. It's no wonder the bloody thing hasn't surfaced in its current form so far, and if you look at the scripts for
Dream Engine and
Neverland, both on Steinman's website, you can see why some things stay in development for over 40 years.
From what I've seen so far, there's not much good I can say about this current rendition: "a meditation on Captain Hook and friends," the article calls it, as if the person we really want to know about in the Peter Pan tale is Captain Hook. (If we did, we certainly wouldn't want to hear about him cloaked in this extra "atmosphere" Steinman chose to sink the story in.) The only even remotely interesting thing is that apparently he's framing the whole story as a flashback from the older Wendy waiting for Peter to come back, but the only thing that's interesting about it is that no one, to my knowledge, has ever tried such an obvious twist.
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Updated On: 6/15/12 at 01:57 PM
