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`PETER PAN' GROWS UP IN APPEAL

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From: The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Date: 19981122
Author:ROBERT FELDBERG

ROBERT FELDBERG
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
11-22-1998
`PETER PAN' GROWS UP IN APPEAL
By ROBERT FELDBERG
Date: 11-22-1998, Sunday
Section: YOUR TIME
Edition: All Editions -- Sunday
Column: ON STAGE

Cathy Rigby, the former Olympic gymnast, played Peter Pan on
Broadway, in 1990 and 1991. Now, she's doing it again -- but with a
difference, said director Glenn Casale. Neverland has been turned into
Freudian territory.

"What I did," said Casale, "was go back to what [James M.] Barrie
wrote." And what he found was not just a children's tale about a boy who
never grew up, but a story that ...

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