tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2455126179375366490.post6430320596974763902..comments2023-12-20T11:32:15.997-05:00Comments on Billevesées: ‘Peter Pan Live!’: I’d Like to Clap Louder Next TimeWilliam V. Madisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18120331095634473021noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2455126179375366490.post-18968785140351565932014-12-11T15:39:51.138-05:002014-12-11T15:39:51.138-05:00I would like to add that Iain was the target audie...I would like to add that Iain was the target audience for Pete Pan when it was written and Iain was pleased. To me this is very important <br /><br />Even as late as the 1960 production, children were foremost in the thinking of those who made it and the audience who viewed it <br /><br />But since then things meant predominantly for children, from baseball cards to Halloween, have been increasingly usurped and taken over by adults....the kids got shouldered out.<br /><br />Can we now complain such a play creaks ? That it did not turn us back to the children it was meant for? <br /><br />As to the age of the lost boys,I have to say I didn't notice it until I read the reviews. It seems to me a lost boy is an attitude and could be someone at any age...and I believe if children had been used,there would have been complaints about that. <br /><br />I think earlier productions knew they could use children as professional leeway would be given in deference to the fact they were children. But this leeway cannot counted on now <br /><br />At bottom a play meant for children cannot always turn us into the children we seem to want to be... and who are the lost boys? <br /><br />The play was also at a cultural disadvantage having no hunky vampires, misunderstood zombies or serial killers..if you leave out Hook that is.<br /><br />This is not a criticism of your review,which I feel was one of best. You have profound sympathy for those on the boards and the audience out front <br />Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033117202223821117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2455126179375366490.post-26967142885091703482014-12-08T11:04:53.223-05:002014-12-08T11:04:53.223-05:00Terrific review of the show and about the history...Terrific review of the show and about the history and the need for such broadcasts <br /><br />I'm like little Iain. Perhaps I'm just among the outside NYC culturally unwashed, but I thought it was great and was amazed it could even be be done and that well. <br /><br />Live. That took amazing guts on everyone's part. As it does on Broadway... but this wasn't in front of 1,000 like in a theater. It was in front of millions and a great number of unforgiving folks who either make a living or social media trashing such attempts. Let's see them sing and dance. Thanks to the internet we also get Iain's review. <br /><br /><i>(And speaking of pacing, does anybody else remember the good old days, when advertisers reduced the number of commercials they ran during extra-special, “event” programs like this one?)</i><br /><br />here! here!<br />Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033117202223821117noreply@blogger.com