"Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have
anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and Peter and Wendy are
the stage play and novel (respectively) which tell the well-known
story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who spends his
never-ending childhood on the island of Neverland, and his
adventure with the ordinary girl Wendy Darling and her brothers.
The story was written by Scottish playwright and novelist J. M.
Barrie (1860-1937). It features many fantastical elements,
including children who can fly, a magical fairy, and mermaids. It
was first staged at the Duke of York's Theatre on 27 December 1904,
then adapted by Barrie into a novel published in 1911, and since
adapted numerous times for film and other media, remaining popular
with generations of children and adults.
The story of Peter Pan has been a popular one for adaptation into
other media. The story and its characters have been used as the
basis for a number of motion pictures (live action and animated),
stage musicals, television programs, a ballet, and ancillary media
and merchandise. The best known of these are the 1953 animated
feature film produced by Disney featuring the voice of 15-year-old
film actor Bobby Driscoll (one of the first male actors in the
title role, which was traditionally played by women); the series of
musical productions (and their televised presentations) starring
Mary Martin, Sandy Duncan, and Cathy Rigby; and the 2003
live-action feature film produced by P. J. Hogan starring Jeremy
Sumpter.
There have been several additions to Peter Pan's story, including
the authorised sequel novel Peter Pan in Scarlet, and the
high-profile sequel films Return to Never Land and Hook. Various
characters from the story have appeared in other places, especially
Tinker Bell as a mascot and character of Disney. The characters are
in the public domain in some jurisdictions, leading to unauthorised
extensions to the mythos and uses of the characters. Some of these
have been controversial, such as a series of prequels by Dave Barry
and Ridley Pearson, and Lost Girls, a sexually explicit graphic
novel by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie, featuring Wendy Darling and
the heroines of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Alice's Adventures
in Wonderland.
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