“On stage, Peter is almost always played by a woman.”
I thought is was because stagehands had to use ropes to fly Peter around and a girl weighed less.
Am I wrong?
They also use a woman because they do have a big bulge in their tights...so I’ve read.
I read that it was because of work laws that forbade boys from acting if they were below a certain age, so they used girls of age who had no begun to mature yet.
Read about it today....a woman was originally played because of child labor laws. A boyof about that age, maybe 11 or 12 would have been underage for peforming in the theater.
As an aside I am finding much of this performance tonight to be either gay or sappier than I remember. I am a Pan fan, not Disney’s version. Shoul NOT have been rated G. Loved the book.