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Peter Pan / Re: John Crook's score
« on: January 04, 2024, 01:29:30 PM »
As far as I can tell, this is the complete list of recordings which have been released for sale:

  • "His Master's Voice" catalog number C.1092, "Peter Pan" -- Selection, The Gramophone Company, 1922; Mayfair Orchestra under George W. Byng
  • Columbia Gramophone catalog number 9768, Peter Pan -- Selection, 1929; J.H. Squire Celeste Octet
  • HMV C.2693, "Peter Pan" Selection, sometime in early 1930s; London Palladium Orchestra under Richard Crean.
  • HMV B.9117, B.9118, & B.9119, Scenes, Songs and Music from Sir James M. Barrie's Peter Pan, 1940 cast recording; music conducted by Clifford Greenwood (probably the Duke of York's Theatre house orchestra)
  • BBC Radio 4 Peter Pan: The Original Play and Music, 1989 audio cassette based on the 1986 radio performance; BBC Concert Orchestra under Chris Walker
  • Delos Music DE320, An Awfully Big Adventure: The Best of Peter Pan (1904--1996), includes three tracks of John Crook's music; arranged (and, I think, conducted) by Donald Fraser
  • Sepia Records catalog #1037, 100 Years of Peter Pan, 2004; includes the 1929 and 1940 recordings above
  • JWGrum channel on YouTube, https://youtu.be/VPB7dge3rYQ, seems to be a computer-generated rendition of the entire 1907 score
  • Unreleased, I have MIDI files for the entire 1907 score.
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Peter Pan / Tinkerbell and Jas. Hook
« on: December 27, 2023, 08:41:09 PM »
The 1953 Disney Peter Pan has one plot point that seems a real improvement over Barrie's versions:

In Barrie's published versions, (a) nothing comes of Peter banishing Tinkerbell, and (b) Hook's discovery of the House Under the Ground is unmotivated coincidence.

Disney fixes this, by having Hook seduce the forlorn Tink, getting her to betray the location.  Tink's near-death when she rescues Peter is also her redemption from her betrayal.  From a storytelling perspective, this change is just about perfect, tying together loose ends and turning unconnected events ("this happens and then that happens") into a plot ("this happens and caused that to happen").  The 2003 movie also uses this technique (though they return to Barrie's device of Hook poisoning Peter's medicine).

But was this really Disney's invention, or is there something in Barrie's revisions which precedes this?
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Peter Pan / Re: My Peter Pan Stage Adaptation
« on: December 27, 2023, 08:04:15 PM »
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you can read my review I did on Andrew's Peter Pan 1989 film script

I'm looking through your post history, but I'm not seeing this review.  Could you please post a link, or at least the post subject line?

Edit: Found it: https://www.jmbarrie.co.uk/msgbrd/index.php?topic=2705.0
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