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People DO understand this show is FICTION!!

Posted by:	Teacher64 08:10 pm EDT 08/14/14
In reply to:	WGBH - lowwriter 04:01 pm EDT 08/14/14

You listen to this critic talking about Barrie and it sounds like he is talking about the REAL Barrie instead of the FICTIONAL one in FINDING NEVERLAND. "JM Barrie is someone who really struggled. He wasn't getting the validation that he needed on the stage UNTIL he created Peter Pan. People said, "You CAN'T do this. This cannot be put on the stage. It's never been done before." Of course, none of this is true! Prior to PETER PAN, JM Barrie was the most successful playwright of his day. And Barrie got the idea for PETER PAN after taking the Davies boys to a play called THE BLUE BIRD (I think that was the name of it --it was later filmed with Shirley Temple). Also, C. Frohman LOVED the idea of Peter Pan and was one of the show's biggest supporters BEFORE it became a hit. I promised myself when I went to see FINDING NEVERLAND that I would not get hung up on its fictionalization of an otherwise great tale. But I wish that people did not come away from this musical thinking that they are now experts on the real Barrie.

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