Peter Pan/Content History
Simply introduced as "The Boy", this character soon becomes this famous leader of the Lost Boys.
Who is Peter Pan?
While official tour productions have otherwise only been staged in the United States, the show found a second wind when this country down-under staged the first tour outside of the US just last year.
What is Australia?
Multiple members of the cast (including the original Black Stache, the original Lord Aster, the tour fighting prawn, and a surprising amount of actors in smaller roles) have a history with this show-- multiple of them on Broadway-- which involves dancing British knights and angry French taunters.
What is Spamalot?
After being dunked in starstuff-filtered waters, Peter realizes he cannot leave the island and first discovers this characteristic/power he has which continues throughout Peter Pan lore.
What is never aging?
Captain Black Stache is later revealed to be the first iteration of this Peter Pan character when his hand is chopped off by a trunk.
Who is Captain Hook?
*ALL PLAY*
Each group has one chance to guess for how many performances Peter and the Starcatcher ran on Broadway. Closest wins the point.
319 regular performance-- just under a year of performances.
Adam Chanler-Berat, the original Off and On-Broadway Peter, has played onstage a presidential assassin, a french painter, and a hospital bound composer. However, he's made a notable foray into film with a leading role in the 2021 HBO reboot of this classic show about an anonymous blogger.
What is Gossip Girl?
Molly's primary duty as an (apprentice) Starcatcher is to do this, to keep it out of the wrong hands.
What is finding Starstuff that has fallen to Earth and disposing of it?
One of the main antagonists in Peter Pan lore is not actually a person. Mr. Grin in Peter and the Starcatcher, called "Tick-Tock" in the Disney version, is this kind of creature.
What is a crocodile?
The show has always included limited special effects, relying on actors and movement to create the imaginative world instead. So the various creatures met in the play were not done by screen animation or misdirection, but rather this art technique which comes from religious storytelling thousands of years ago.
What is puppetry?
This actor, known for playing Emmet in the OBC of Legally Blonde and famously as Shakespeare in the OBC of Something Rotten!, was the only Peter actor to win a Tony for his role as Black Stache.
Who is Christian Borle?
This ocean creature is the one who officially gives Peter the surname of "Pan", so-named because of the God of the forest from Greek mythology.
Who is "Teacher", the mermaid?
Not considered quite a musical, the show is usually referred to as a "Play with Music". However, the show was still nominated for this Tony award where nominations (and especially wins) are usually dominated by musicals.
What is Best Original Score?
At the end of the play, Lord Aster turns a yellow bird into a pixie to protect Peter. This pixie is more well known by this name, given for her ability to fix pots and kettles in the original version of the story.
While this may or may not happen in our version (cast list not out at time of Jeopardy creation), this role is inspired by traditional English pantomimes and is oftentimes portrayed by a man. *The Broadway version followed this but many tours/local versions of the show have not.
Who is Mrs. Bumbrake?
Celia Keenan-Bolger, the original Broadway Molly, is also known for her originating role as Olive Ostrofsky in this competition set musical-- set it now at MacEwan!
What is the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee?
Molly and her father use this secret animalistic language to commune with each other.
What is Dodo?
While only being nominated for two acting Tony's, Peter and the Starcatcher on Broadway cleaned up in the tech department. Winning for best costume, lighting, and sound design of play-- as well as winning this tech award, despite the actors often making this themselves.
What is best scenic (set) design of a play?
In the broader world of Peter Pan lore, Molly Aster, just a 13-year old girl in Peter and the Starcatcher, is actually the mother of Peter's next love interest, this young girl who flies with him to Neverland.
Who is Wendy Darling?
Not super common for a Broadway show: After Peter and the Starcatcher closed, they went back to this form of smaller (but still established) New York theatre, to try and keep the show going even if not on Broadway anymore.
What is Off-Broadway?
(technically a director...)
Alex Timbers was nominated for a Tony Award for directing Peter and the Starcatcher-- he later won for Moulin Rogue! and American Utopia. However, his most prominent work is his direction of the stand-up specials for this Baby J comedian.
Who is John Mulaney?
What is the relationship between Mrs. Bumbrake (Molly's Maid) and Fighting Prawn (a young mollusk who tries to feed Molly and Peter to the crocodile)?
Along the lines of--
Prawn used to work for Bumbrake as a kitchen boy in Brighton.