NBC Announces that Peter Pan Will Be Aired Live in December

[ERinVA]

I like it but I think they should of done better wires because I can see wires well enough and I think that wouln't be good if you can see it. That's just my oppinion. Also flying was a little boring

Because it was live, I think you would have to expect to see the wires. It was not just a regular tv show with cinematic special effects. The few effects that were used for Peter's shadow, Tinkerbell, and the fairy dust were typical of a stage production, and so were the wires. You see the wire in Billy Live, so why should this live performance be different? Actually, I thought they did a good job of using the commercial breaks to unobtrusively attach/detach the wires, although I hated the commercial interruptions.

As for the flying being boring, well, it was traditional "Peter Pan" flying. Again, without doing some kind of doctored special effects, I don't think it could really have been made more spectacular.

On another note, it looks like "Peter Pan" is going to be part of the Northern Ballet's programming soon:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=84 ... =2&theater

Now this flying might turn out a bit better. By the way, the guy in the light green shorts is Matthew Koon. He must be feeling a little bit of deja vu.

The NBC production was intended to look like live a stage production, albeit with no proscenium. I suppose they could have gone for a "movie musical" look, but I don't really think they could have done that live.

[CJ-Rochester]

I agree she was much far as Peter than Carrie Underwood was as Maria in "The Sound of Music." In both cases I strongly feel they should have been staged before a real audience. It's not live theater without a live audience.

[ERinVA]

Yes, I think a live audience really does make a difference.

[ERinVA]

Here's a rather unfavorable review from Mark Kennedy of the Associated Press:

http://trove.com/a/TV-Review-NBCs-Peter ... aign=srfan

[OliverWaters]

It was quite good. I always find it a bit off-putting when Pan is played by a leggy female with a perfect, unboyish pixie cut, it makes the show feel more like a lesbian self-discovery tale.

I love Christopher Walken though, he's basically a living cartoon.

[CJ-Rochester]

It appears to have been a success in the ratings for NBC.

http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/NB ... e-20141205

[porschesrule]

It's funny, you know, reading the comments of NBC's Chairman about live events: "I love these live events and we're already working on putting the next one together." Some of us remember the days of early TV when everything was "live". Over the years since then, just about everything except sporting events are taped and the entertainment programming being taped has, in the past, been hailed as such an advancement over the old days of live broadcasting. After all, you can re-take scenes with mistakes and add all sorts of digital technology when you're using videotape or film, in an effort to make them "perfect".

Yet, today, there are many who like such "live" events merely because they are "live". They (or I should say "I" as I'm among that group) like the adventure of it and when something does go wrong, we delight in it and how/if the cast and crew deal with it as in live theater. It's amazing how cyclical life can be.

[debbiefan]

They did some bad directing one is fighting scene on pirate ship. Reason I say that is so I watch it for first time and I see a pirate appear out of no where and u was right when I watch it again. He went in and got kill then randomly came back to life and so did another one. I think that if their already dead why bring them back? That just bad directing.

[ERinVA]

Here is a review from the New York Times:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/12/06/ar ... ?referrer=

[CJ-Rochester]

That was an interesting tidbit that Allison Williams is the daughter of news anchor Brian Williams.