Never Land
watch highlights from our November, 2024 workshop at Coffey Street Studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn
Revisit the curiosity, mischief, and confusion of childhood in this theatrical recital based on the themes of queer escapism found in Bernstein’s Peter Pan. Performance artists Dicky Dutton and Heather Jones explore the gender binary of mother versus pirate and the conflicts that arise if anyone tries to grow out of those roles. Bring your costume box, your outside voice, and we’ll see you on the island of Never Land.
Artists
Dicky Dutton (they/she)
Mermaid, Hook, Herself
Heather Jones (they/them)
Wendy, Mermaid, Smee, Peter, Themself
Michael Lewis (he/they)
Piano, Starkey, Tinkerbell
Rachel Mikol (she/her)
Storyteller
The November 2024 workshop of Never Land was generously presented by Amanda + James Productions, a NY based company dedicated to developing works in progress. They provide space for the NY arts community to follow creative impulses, refine ideas into projects, and collaborate and learn from their peers.
Program
Act I
Bedtime Story (poem by Chloe M Teng)
Your Mother and Mine (Sammy Fain)
Still Running excerpts (Stuart Beatch)
Sleep no more
Still running
Distant Melody (Jule Styne)
Never-Land duet (Leonard Bernstein)
Captain Hook’s Soliloquy (Bernstein)
Plank Round (Bernstein)
Who Am I (Bernstein)
Hook’s Tarantella (Paul Schoeffler)
Act II
Bright Moonlight (Chen Yi)
My House (Bernstein)
On Turning Ten (poem by Billy Collins)
Peter, Peter (Bernstein)
Your Mother and Mine - reprise
A Boy with Baleen for Teeth (Michael Genese)
There are fairies at the bottom of our garden (Liza Lehmann)
J.M. Barrie, author of the original Peter Pan stories, novel, and Broadway play
Leonard Bernstein, conductor and composer who wrote a musical adaptation for Broadway in 1950. Bernstein’s Peter Pan has only been performed in its entirety with full orchestration twice: in 2008 and 2018.
Peter Pans
throughout history
Robin Williams as Peter and Dustin Hoffman as Hook in Steven Spielberg’s Hook (1992)
Eva le Gallienne as Peter at the Civic Repertory Theater (1928)
Cyril Richard as Hook and Mary Martin as Peter in the NBC telecast (1956)
Disney’s animated film Peter Pan (1953)
Maude Adams as Broadway’s first Peter in J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan (1905)
Jeremy Sumpter as Peter in P.J. Hogan’s Peter Pan (2003)
Betty Bronson as Peter in the first Peter Pan film adaptation by Paramount (1924)