Peter Pan

New York: Imperial Theatre, 1950. Vintage double weight satin-finish portrait photograph from the successful 1950 Broadway musical, showing actor Boris Karloff in costume as Captain Hook. With the stamps of Imperial Theatre and the "Cleveland Press" on the verso.

Based on J.M. Barrie's classic 1904 play. The musical opened on April 24, 1950, at the Imperial Theatre, running through September 30, 1950, and later traveling to the St. James Theatre, where it ran from October 2, 1950, through January 27, 1951. Disney's animated adaptation would be released two years later, in 1953.

Although composer Leonard Bernstein wrote a complete score for the musical, the play was ultimately staged with only five songs as a result of the limited vocal ranges of the lead actors. Bernstein's complete score was released in 2005 after decades of research by conductor Alexander Frey, and was staged in its entirety in 2008, at the Santa Barbara Theater in California.

8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

[Book #167623]