You have to see it to believe it: the flying in Houston Ballet's Peter Pan at the Wortham is like something you've never experienced. HoustonBallet WorthamCenter
Houston Ballet Demi Soloist Aoi Fujiwara as Wendy and Principal Charles-Louis Yoshiyama as Peter Pan with Artists of Houston Ballet in Trey McIntyre’sIf you say you’ve never thought about what it’d be like to be a child again, or better yet, to be young forever, you’re probably lying. When you imagine it, as we know you do, you just might find yourself thinking of the world’s most famous child who refused to grow up, Peter Pan.
One key change worth noting is that Peter is actually one of the Darling children in this iteration. He was literally, though inadvertently, swept away as a baby by a nurse who was, well, sweeping the nursery. It’s an interesting wrinkle, because it means that we may be watching “The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up” choose not to grow up, maybe for the first time. It adds a sad layer as to why he’s drawn to the Darling home, and in his choice not to return.
O’Connell’s Captain Hook is both threatening and foppish, or as threatening as a man preoccupied with besting a child can be. He’s clearly jealous of Peter and the children, wanting their attention but settling for trying to dominate them instead. It’s most apparent in the way he poses and preens during a solo in Act III. McIntyre gives Hook a son, James, who is a lonely, sympathetic character who literally lives a colorless existence .
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