<p>What about Elon? That’s the only one we are still waiting on??</p>
<p>Michigan says 4-6 weeks from submission to response. Anybody have a shorter turnaround? </p>
<p>@toowonderful “prairie hotties” … interesting…LOL 8-| </p>
<p>Thanks @helpfulmom …I submitted on the 19th and still haven’t heard…,hoping that doesn’t mean bad news…congrats to your d! </p>
<p>I want to go back to Peter Pan, which I watched out of the corner of my eye while doing other things and not at all until the end. It seemed good to me and most certainly leaps and bounds better than Sound of Music Live was. But I’m with @toowonderful. I didn’t think the Wendy/Peter thing worked up close though I thought both actresses were terrific. Peter is supposed to be a boy and the reasons why it was staged live with a female playing Peter starting with Mary Martin were practical ones. Meanwhile, Chris Colfer anyone? He’s also 2 years younger than Allison (who I did think did a great job but she was so obviously not a boy who won’t grow up.) </p>
<p>OK, I may be showing some great deficiency in understanding by asking this question, but if boys can be cast as Billy Elliot, can someone explain to me why a boy can’t be cast as Peter Pan? I understand that constantly having to replace a boy who has gone through puberty is a pain for a long running Broadway production. But why, exactly couldn’t it be done for a one-time-tv-production? Is it the vocal range required for the role? Clearly I am in the dark about something here…</p>
<p>Eva le Gallienne, and before her, Maude Adams , played Peter Pan in the play version</p>
<p>I LOVE Christopher Walken but this was not my favorite performance of his. Johnny Depp would have been fun. Pan and Wendy seemed age appropriate to each other and the rest of the cast, they were all adults except the little boys. The romance subplot never works for me.</p>
<p>The girl as Peter relationship with Wendy thing works fine on stage- but I thought the intimacy of the small screen made thing awkward- hard to suspend disbelief during a closeup </p>
<p>I did a quick amount of research before I posted about the history of casting women as Peter on stage. Seemed to have something to do with making the sizes of the various performers look right in proportion. and being able to cast older young men (who could rehearse longer into the evening vs. child labor laws) for the rest of the crew. Still trying to sort out why that makes sense but anyway. I get it, but I don’t get it for this moment in TV time and agree, it was strange close up. If Peter was secretly a girl and that’s the whole story and he and Wendy play at love anyway, fine. No judgment. But that’s not the story. Peter is a boy who doesn’t want to grow up. I think casting a boy would have made that more effective and I’m with @addicted2mt and the rest on that.</p>
<p>These live events are (like all TV) built around ratings. Ms Williams is the draw here. So, who’s the guy with similar Q who you would cast? I doubt Adam Driver would be more plausible, though I would kill to see him and Walken go at it with the swords and repartee.</p>
<p>LOVEE Adam Driver (not as Pan) but on Girls. Love.</p>
<p>And yet if ratings were the goal it doesn’t seem to have gone as planned. I read that ratings were 1/2 those of Sound of Music last year…</p>
<p>I thought it odd that a show that would appeal to families and children would be scheduled from 8-11 on a school night. I have a 7th grader and he couldn’t stay awake for the whole thing. Perhaps a weekend night with possibly an earlier air time would have helped with those numbers. Or during a holiday break.</p>
<p>@vvnstar - I had exactly the same thought. I just checked and Sound of Music had the same Thursday time slot, but I agree that Peter Pan might have played to a younger demographic.</p>
<p>Totally agree about the timing for a family-friendly show. Weekend or during break would be a better choice.</p>
<p>Yes, ratings were down this year from last year’s Sound of Music, but still very respectable. Knowing how some of us like numbers, someone else with more time on their hands than me, came up with this startling set:</p>
<p>Since 1997 Broadway shows, have had an average annual attendance in the 12 million range. That attendance is reached over 1400 - 1500 “Total Playing Weeks.” You get that number by adding all the weeks that all the Broadway shows run in a year.
This gives us an average of around 8600 attendees per week, spread over all Broadway shows. Or in other words, Broadway shows play weekly to 0.0009% the audience that Peter Pan reached last night.</p>
<p>So, hopefully, last night’s viewership will encourage NBC to continue, which can only be a good thing for people interested in keeping musical theatre vibrant.</p>
<p>I’m so inept at who is who in TV land. I never heard of Allison Williams before the hype about Pan and even then once I did, the only thing on her bio that resonated at all to me was that she is Brian Williams daughter. I’m the one most likely to buy live theater tix in our house though my daughter might drive much higher demand if she could afford it. Williams cast as Peter didn’t impact my viewership at all. Who?</p>
<p>I recorded Peter Pan because my 5 year old niece spent the night here, I knew it was too late for her to watch it on a school night. Peter was on the screen for about 5 minutes and she said “I"m actually pretty sure that’s a girl” :)) She loved the pirates, the lost boys and the set…she’s quite the critic. </p>
<p>@halflokum - I agree, I did not know Allison Williams before she was cast in Peter Pan- I don’t watch Girls. I don’t think that she was meant to be the draw (though she got a lot of press) the show itself was meant to be the draw. I thought it was nice that they didn’t go for the mega star (like Carrie Underwood last year) as Pan. </p>
<p>@halflokum, I think that’s the point. You are already a consumer of live theater, including Broadway, so you are not the target viewer. As I understand these events, part of the hope is to bring an audience to shows that are more likely to be familiar with Ms Williams and Ms Underwood (who I couldn’t pick out in a line-up) than the incomparable Ms O’Hara. It is not accidental that these are performers from a very different sphere. “Girls” is a great job and gives Williams a high profile with those who watch the show on HBO (4.1 million). More importantly, Wms is known for two popular web series, as well as Funny or Die, and YouTube. These are the platforms that are relevant to that most-sought-after demographic, which advertisers flock to, and they are relevant to the future of the theater. Capturing even a small number of those viewers as potential ticket-buyers for live theater would be great.</p>