A sampling of past Pansdo they soar like Mary Martin or crash like Mia Farrow?

Rick Sparks,Neverland(2003)

Here’s thatgrittyPanadaptationnobody wanted!

The movie, and Sparks, are just about as unappealing as that description sounds.

Peter Pan | Here’s that gritty Pan adaptation nobody wanted! In Damion Dietz’s little-seen indie, the ‘‘lost boys’’ are a group of teenage runaways loitering around an abandoned

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Mia Farrow,Peter Pan(1976)

She certainly had the right hair for the part.

Unfortunately, the Golden Globe winner’s suitability for Pan ended there.

Her wavering accent and less-than-powerful singing voice certainly doesn’t help matters.

Peter Pan | She certainly had the right hair for the part. Unfortunately, the Golden Globe winner’s suitability for Pan ended there. Boyish as her coif may be,

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(He was fine.)

(There’s been more than one farewell tour.)

Sometimes, the results were cringeworthy (Jack,Patch Adams).

Peter Pan | Syfy’s disappointingly literal origin story recasts Captain Hook (Rhys Ifans) as a devious fencing teacher and Pan as an Oliver Twist-esque orphan thief who stumbles

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That’s something worth crowing about.

But Driscoll’s iconic performance truly embodies the spirit of Barrie’s most famous creation.

(It helps that Driscoll was himself a teenager when he recorded the role.)

Peter Pan | Hey, did you know that kid who was on every TGIF show in the ’90s ( Full House , Boy Meets World , Step By

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Peter Pan | While her role in the film is as slight as a sprinkling of fairy dust, the Scottish actress is perfectly nice when she appears in

Peter Pan | Walters is a puppyish, pushing-30 Peter in this webseries, a modern reimagination told via vlog that transports the story’s action to the fictional town of

Peter Pan | Onstage, Peter is normally played by a full-grown woman—which made then-13-year-old Sumpter’s casting seem like a novelty. (It also made filming more difficult; the actor

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Peter Pan | Talk about never growing up: This former gymnast kept playing the leader of the Lost Boys onstage over the course of nearly 40 years, hanging

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Peter Pan | True, the Neverland plot on ABC’s fairy tale mashup series ended up being a drag—but it livened up considerably whenever Kay appeared as a malevolent,

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Peter Pan | Go ahead and crow, as critics did at the time, that Steven Spielberg’s Pan sequel is a saccharine, overly stylized mess. There’s a reason, though,

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Peter Pan | Exuberant, effortless, effervescent; a lot of ebullient ‘‘e’’ words come to mind when describing Martin’s charismatic, magnetic Pan, a performance many a female star has

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