Flyboy; A playwright who once tried to take wing off the garage roof and a composer who loved to hide in trees are doing an all-new musical `Peter Pan.' Where? At Peter and Wendy's playhouse.(VARIETY)

From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | Date: November 14, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

1/3 "Peter Pan" could have been fatal for playwright Timothy Mason.

As a child in the 1950s, he watched the annual TV broadcasts of the stage musical version starring Mary Martin, and believed her literally when she sang, "You can fly!" He started jumping off the sofa and ended up on the garage roof "making promises to God that I'd be the best boy ever if only I could step off the roof and keep going."

He took the leap of faith many times. "When I hit the ground," he recalled, "I just assumed I wasn't good enough."

An all-new musical adaptation, which begins ...

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