This is FRESH AIR. In 1955, 65 million viewers watched a live telecast of "Peter Pan," a recreation of the hit Broadway musical starring Mary Martin and directed by Jerome Robbins. It was so popular ...

Peter Pan may be “the boy who won’t grow up,” but that doesn’t mean he can’t adapt to more enlightened times. A new national tour of the musical based on the beloved adventurer redresses some longtime ...

1955 Tony Awards Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical Cyril Ritchard 1955 Tony Awards Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a ...

Color TV sets first came out in 1954. By the next year, fewer than 1% of U.S. homes had a color TV. For that matter, only about half the homes in the U.S. had a TV set at all in 1955. Nevertheless, on ...

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: Cyril Ritchard won. Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical: Mary Martin won.

Raye Zaragoza was just a child when she first auditioned to play Tiger Lily. It was the late ’90s, yet another “Peter Pan” project was in the works, and though most adaptations had presented Tiger ...