Peter Pan
Peter Pan
#0Peter Pan
Posted: 6/16/04 at 11:01pmHere's one for all you cast recording collectors. I was wondering if the 1997 Cast Recording of Peter Pan with Cathy Rigby is the exact same as the 2000 TV Soundtrack of Peter Pan with Cathy. I have the 2000 Soundtrack and I love the way it is performed, but the quality is awful because it sounds like they put a mic on the stage and recorded it. I was just wondering if the 1997 CD is a different recording. Thanks for your help.
#1re: Peter Pan
Posted: 6/16/04 at 11:05pm
Yes, the 1997 one is a cast recording is from the Broadway production with a different cast, slightly.
The 2000 is a soundtrack (not a cast recording) of the production that was filmed in 2000 for A&E and released onto DVD.
(FINALLY a topic about Peter Pan. Whoo hoo!)
--Aristotle
GretchaSketh
Broadway Star Joined: 6/9/04
#2re: Peter Pan
Posted: 6/16/04 at 11:10pmOne of my favorite things about the stage version of Peter Pan that no other version has is the song Distant Melody. Only people who know the stage version ever know what I'm taking about. It is such a wonderfully beautiful song and a great lullaby:)
#3re: Peter Pan
Posted: 6/16/04 at 11:11pmyes....great song
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#4re: Peter Pan
Posted: 6/16/04 at 11:12pmThanks CapHook, I knew you could help. I am a big fan of the musical and wanted an updated recording from the Mary Martin one and the 2000 TV Soundtrack I think was poorly recorded so I'll give the 97 Broadway cast a chance.
#5re: Peter Pan
Posted: 6/16/04 at 11:13pm
FUN FACT:
The song, "Distant Melody" was written to replace the song "When I Went Home." "When I Went Home" was the original song in the production, however, because it was considered too sad and depressing, "Distant Melody" was written to take it's place.
Now "Distant Melody" is an already depressing song. Can you IMAGINE how depressing "When I Went Home" might have been? Well, you partly can. At the following URL, and instrumental of the song is played in the background:
http://www.peterpanfan.com/tribute.htmlhttp://www.peterpanfan.com/tribute.html>http://www.peterpanfan.com/tribute.html
--Aristotle
#6re: Peter Pan
Posted: 6/16/04 at 11:13pmHmmm, distant melody. I wish I could have heard that song. Do you think it will be in the Cathy Rigby tour? Because it is coming to Tennessee this next season.
#7re: Peter Pan
Posted: 6/16/04 at 11:15pmIs the song 'Mysterious Lady" in the tour, because a lot of times that song doesn't work.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#8re: Peter Pan
Posted: 6/16/04 at 11:15pmDistant Melody is my favorite song from that show. To me though, Peter Pan is the saddest show ever if you really look at it and what it's about it. The end of that show makes me cry every time I see it. Even the Disney version.
#9re: Peter Pan
Posted: 6/16/04 at 11:16pm
Mary Martin had "Distant Melody" in her production, as did Cathy Rigby in hers.
It may also interest you to know that it is rumoured Cathy Rigby will record a new cast recording from this new tour, a "100th Anniversary" Cast Recording.
Peter Pan (the original play) was first performed December 27, 1904 at the Duke of York Theatre in London. It came to Broadway in 1905 with Maude Adams as "Peter Pan."
This year also is the 50th Anniversary of the Mary Martin Broadway production.
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--Aristotle
#10re: Peter Pan
Posted: 6/16/04 at 11:18pmGosh, I think the new movie version is the saddest, because it doesn't even show him getting wendy's daughter at the end, it just says that no one ever saw him again. Do you think the Croc might have got him? Okay, I guess that was off topic from Broadway, oh well.
#11re: Peter Pan
Posted: 6/16/04 at 11:18pm
The 1997 CD is a studio recording that Jay Records put together with Cathy Rigby so it's much more the "classic" PETER PAN. It does not have the "Ugh-A-Wug" Indian stick dance that is so wonderfully captured on the 2000 soundtrack - which was recorded, in part, live which is why the quality is not as good. The 1997 one has a prologue that wasn't in the Mary Martin version or the 2000 version, but the prologue used in the 2000 version ("Stars are beautiful... etc.") is taken directly from the original novel so is really the best prologue in my opinion. "I'm Flying" is the full version, as some dialogue was cut from the 2000 one. 1997 also has the full, I guess, original version of "Hook's Wlatz", but again the 1997 one is "classic" PETER PAN as the 2000 one is really the McCoy Rigby version of the show with all the changes that were made to "update" the production. I like the 2000 CD better, but it just depends on which version you prefer. If you like the "classic" PETER PAN go with the 1997 one. If you like the McCoy Rigby version and all the changes that were made then stick with the 2000 CD. Hope this helps!
The newest Cathy Rigby tour will not have the song "Oh, My Mysterious Lady" due to the fact that song was only initially written to show of Mary Martin's singing voice and is (in all reality) and has been deemed for many years as being an extremely inappropriate song for a young boy to be singing...
I actually auditioned for the new tour, but was too tall and too young to play any of the lost boys or other ensemble rolls... ah, well.... 
Updated On: 6/16/04 at 11:18 PM
#12re: Peter Pan
Posted: 6/16/04 at 11:19pm
You know, thinking about it, I don't think Cathy Rigby EVER used "Mysterious Lady" in ANY of her productions, and she was Pan in 1990-1991, and from 1996-2001!!
The upcoming 100th Anniversary (and Cathy's 'Final Bow' tour as she retires from the role) Tour will, of course, be different than past productions. I was given some 'hints' as to what they could be, but was not told directly.
The tour starts this September at the La Mirada Theatre in CA. For a list of tour dates, visit:
http://www.peterpanfan.com/oscrtour.htmlhttp://www.peterpanfan.com/oscrtour.html>http://www.peterpanfan.com/oscrtour.html
--Aristotle
#13re: Peter Pan
Posted: 6/16/04 at 11:21pmDarn...the tours not coming to Dallas.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#14re: Peter Pan
Posted: 6/16/04 at 11:23pm
The new live-action film DID record an alternate ending, which was a bonus feature on the DVD release, which was the original ending in the play:
Peter Pan comes back and finds that Wendy has grown up, and he takes Jane to Neverland.
This October, a new movie comes out starring Johnny Depp as "J.M. Barrie," called FINDING NEVERLAND. It is a fictional story of the life of the PETER PAN author.
--Aristotle
#15re: Peter Pan
Posted: 6/16/04 at 11:25pmFINDING NEVERLAND is going to be great. Johnny Depp playing J.M. Barrie.....awesome
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#16re: Peter Pan
Posted: 6/16/04 at 11:26pm
The movie trailer was just released today, in fact:
http://www.peterpanfan.com/findnevnews.htmlhttp://www.peterpanfan.com/findnevnews.html>http://www.peterpanfan.com/findnevnews.html
--Aristotle
GretchaSketh
Broadway Star Joined: 6/9/04
#17re: Peter Pan
Posted: 6/16/04 at 11:26pmWow I had no idea about "Distant Melody." I agree the show does get me choked up everytime. Have you read the book. It is such a wonderful story. The way he writes is so wonderful. But the story behind his writing Peter Pan is so depressing.
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#18re: Peter Pan
Posted: 6/16/04 at 11:27pmThanks guys. I WAS watching the wonderful Meloni in Law & Order but now I have to put in my Peter Pan DVD.
#19re: Peter Pan
Posted: 6/16/04 at 11:28pm
Thanks CATSNYrevival, that was a lot of help! I really want to have the "Ug-a-wug" song so I am hoping that they will record a FULL 100th anniversary cast album just for me!
That Finding Neverland movie sounds interesting. I wonder why I haven't heard of it yet.
#20re: Peter Pan
Posted: 6/16/04 at 11:29pmIsn't Johnny Depp going to be portraying J.M. Barrie as a pedophiliac?
#21re: Peter Pan
Posted: 6/16/04 at 11:30pm
Indeed it is. Barrie had a very depressing life. His brother died, his wife, many many of his friends and relatives.
If you would like to know more about his life, I HIGHLY recommend the book "J.M. BARRIE AND THE LOST BOYS" written by Andrew Birkin.
The 4-hour mini-series in which this book was based off of, THE LOST BOYS, is being released to DVD this October FINALLY as 26 years. Ian Holm plays "Barrie."
--Aristotle
#22re: Peter Pan
Posted: 6/16/04 at 11:33pmNo, he is not being portrayed as a pedophile. There is also no evidence that Barrie was a pedophile. Even during Barrie's times, he was not considered one.
--Aristotle
#23re: Peter Pan
Posted: 6/16/04 at 11:39pm
Well I just watched the trailer to Finding Neverland, and I must say that I am quite excited about it.
StickToPriest - don't fear, the schedule on that website isn't the full schedule for the Peter Pan tour, because Nashville isn't on there, but it is confirmed by my co-worker at TPAC that we have it.
#24re: Peter Pan
Posted: 6/16/04 at 11:41pmYes, it is coming to Nashville TN and Charlotte NC, but they haven't been 'officially' announced, so I'm waiting a bit to add them.
--Aristotle
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