And besides, what could go wrong in a live televised production with simultaneous flying, sword fighting and singing?” Craig Zadan and Neil Meron executive produce the special.Girls co-star Allison Williams has been cast as the title character in NBC’s December 4 live staging of Peter Pan Live. Season Three is the third season of ABCs Once Upon a Time. It was announced on May 10, 2013. Filming began on Jand lasted until April 3, 2014. Season Three premiered on Septemwith 'The Heart of the Truest Believer', and ended with 'Snow Drifts' immediately followed by 'Theres No Place Like Home' on May 11, 2014.
Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated musical fantasy-adventure film produced by Walt Disney and based on the play, Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldnt Grow Up by J.M. Girls co-star Allison Williams has been cast as the title character in NBC’s December 4 live staging of Peter Pan Live!. Williams, who has sung on her HBO show and in various other projects, is a classically trained singer whose online singing videos have logged millions of views. (watch below one of the most popular ones, which she uploaded shortly after graduating from Yale in 2010) She will star opposite Christopher Walken, who had been cast as Captain Hook. “We think she will bring the perfect blend of ‘boyish’ vulnerability and bravado to save the day against Christopher Walken’s powerful Captain Hook,” NBC chairman Bob Greenblatt said.
...The television show did drop “Oh My Mysterious Lady,” but songs from other musicals were added. Instead, “When I Went Home,” a song that was cut from the original Broadway version, was restored. There were chances to tighten and speed up the narrative that weren’t taken. The performance was too long — it ended at 11 p.m., past the bedtime of its target audience of children and their grandparents, and it was possibly too ploddingly respectful.
(Peter asked children to clap, but an NBC crawl urged them to also tweet.)It was a cautious, please-all production, but it took guts to do it. It’s hard to imagine that many viewers expected strict authenticity in Neverland, a place where dreams are born, fairies flicker and pirates think to the tempo of a tarantella, but the show didn’t want to take any chances.“Peter Pan Live!” was a loving, lavish tribute to a beloved musical that offered a new generation of children a chance to use their smartphones to keep Tinkerbell alive. The Lost Boys, meanwhile, looked like Etonian football hooligans.None of that matters.