Posted on 09/07/2017 8:48:13 PM PDT by TBP
Her Playbill bio is longer than that of some of her co-stars. Then again, she’s had a helluva life, having narrowly escaped death row.
Now, after three years on the road with “Annie,” Macy, a 9-year-old mixed terrier, is making her off-Broadway debut. In “For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday,” which opens Wednesday at Mainstage Theater, she’s billed simply as “a dog.” (Talk about typecasting.) One of her more significant bits of stage business involves gobbling up some dropped cereal.
All told, it’s a long way from Oklahoma, where animal trainer Bill Berloni found Macy in December 2009.
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“For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday,”
‘Her’ 70th Birthday??
Maybe she’s getting ready to turn 10 years old which would be 70 in dog years.
Maybe she’s getting ready to turn 10 years old which would be 70 in dog years.
Peter Pan is the "her" in this probable dopey gay-pushing play.
Peter Pan was played by Larry Hagman (J. R. Ewing)’s mother.
Peter Pan was played by Larry Hagman (J. R. Ewing)’s mother.
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Mary Martin was much more well known than her son——he was known as Mary Martin’s son.
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OK, by why would a woman be cast as Peter Pan?
Pan has no Peter.
I remember seeing her do Peter Pan live on television. For some reason, I seem to recall hearing later that she had performed that night with a high fever...
Inspiration for all us strays.
Obviously took above and beyond interest from multiple folks just to have been kept alive.
Wow, I didn’t know Wayne Carini was an Actor.
Is his Chasing Classic Cars Show still on Velocity?
I also didn’t know that Peter Pan was a Tranny.
I learn something new every day here.
Who dressed Peter Pan, the Duck Dynasty guys? Great Cammo.
The character was prepubescent.
It would have been difficult to find a young actor that could handle the rigors of a extended stage production. So they cast adult women with slight frames.
Peter Pan is almost always played by a female onstage. I had always thought that it was because he’s perceived as a sort of ‘elfin’ personality, and having a female play the part suited; but there are other, traditional reasons:
http://people.com/celebrity/why-does-a-woman-always-play-peter-pan/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pan_(1954_musical)#Casts_of_major_productions
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