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MARY MARTIN (Peter Pan) first attracted national attention by doing a sophisticated performance to the tune of My Heart Belongs to Daddy in Cole Porter’s

Richard Halliday presents Edwin Lester’s Production

MARY MARTIN as

in a New Musical Version of the Play by Sir JAMES M. BARRIE

Lyrics by CAROLYN LEIGH Music by MARK CHARLAP Additional Music by JULE STYNE Additional Lyrics by BETTY COMDEN and ADOLPH GREEN

with

CYRIL BRITCAR KATHY NOLAN MARGALO GILLMORE

Scenery Designed by PETER LARKIN

Costumes Designed by MOTLEY Lighting by PEGGY CLARK Assistant to the Director, MARY HUNTER Orchestral Arrangements by ALBERT SENDREY

e Conductor LOUIS ADRIAN

“Tinker Bell”? by JAYE RUBANOFF Incidental Music by ‘TRUDE RITTMAN and ELMER BERNSTEIN

® Production Directed and Staged by FEROME ROBBINS

THE CAST

Leave It to Me. She also drew rave notices for her performances in Lute Song and in troupe playing The Barretts of Wimpole Street. the road company of Annie Get Your Gun, but it was as Nellie Forbush in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific that she made her greatest mark on the contem- porary theater, creating a character which is now legend. After conquering London in the same part, she returned to this country to appear opposite Charles Boyer in Kind Sir, her first non-musical role. Miss Martin has also been extremely active in the motion picture and recording fields and, in television, has captured the imagination and enthusiasm of millions.

CYRIL RITCHARD (Mr. Darling and Captain Hook) made his first theatrical appearance at Her Mayjesty’s Theatre in Sydney, Australia. He remained with that company for six years, coming to New York for Puzzles of 1925. Soon after, he and his wife, Madge Elliott, went to London where they were soon established as the city’s top musical comedy dancing stars. Mr. Ritchard returned to this country in 1947 for an appearance with John Gielgud in Love for Love; in 1953 he

more than twenty motion pictures.

played with Katherine Hepburn in The Millionairess. He has also been active as a Finian’s Rainbow and Bloomer Girl. director, serving in this capacity for the comedy Edna, as well as for the revue, Almanac. He has also re-staged The Barber of Seville for the Metropolitan Opera, and has been very active in television.

KATHY NOLAN (Wendy) is one of those wonderful instances of show business magic—the youngster born into the theatrical world who waited a considerable both in London and New York. time for her break. Miss Nolan first appeared before an audience at the age of 13 months on her father’s Mississippi river boat. She later played a series of ingenue | roles and, when Mary Martin was appearing in St. Louis with the touring company of One Touch of Venus, was fortunate enough to secure an interview. Last summer, she auditioned for the part of Wendy and made such an immediate impression that she was signed on the spot.

MARGALO GILLMORE (Mrs. Darling) has enjoyed one of the really distinguished careers of the contemporary theater. She made her debut in The Scrap of Paper, and has since been seen in such well-remembered dramas as Outward

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Bound, The Silver Cord, Biography, The Women, No Time for Comedy and State of the Union. During the war, she was an important member of the Katherine Cornell

JOE E. MARKS (Smee) is no newcomer to this role, having already per- formed it in the 1950-51 production on Broadway. He is a graduate of Gus Edwards’ famous ‘‘School Days”’ and has appeared in Bloomer Girl and the touring: company of The Happy Time, among others. Mr. Marks has also taken part in

SONDRA LEE (Tiger Lily) scored her first success in the legitimate theater in the Jerome Robbins ballets for High Button Shoes. Since that time, she has been consistently busy as a television dancer and actress, appearing in such varied’ productions as Mister Peepers and the Robert Montgomery and Kate Smith shows.

NORMAN SHELLY (Nana and Crocodile) made a specialty of these animal parts in the 1950-51 Broadway production. This, however, is not his entire reper- toire, for he has also been seen as a human being, notably in Tobacco Road,

HELLER HALLIDAY (Liza), the daughter of Richard Halliday and Mary Martin, has been a trouper since the age of 5, appearing first with her mother in the touring company of Annie Get Your Gun. She has also appeared it#summer stock and, since her ambition is to become a ballet dancer, has studied extensively

ROBERT HARRINGTON (John) is making his Broadway musical debut in Peter Pan. He was heard but not seen in the films Hans Christian Andersen and The Farmer Takes a Wife, but he has been extensively on view along the television

JOSEPH STAFFORD (Michael) is also making his Broadway debut in this production. A former holder of the “‘cutest boy in New Jersey”’ title—a contest in which Miss Martin was a judge— Master Stafford has appeared in several

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