NEW YORK – Entering a performance of “Peter Pan” at the cavernous Theater at Madison Square Garden, you may find yourself wishing that you, too, could fly.
Because that might be the only way to get to your seat on time. At a recent matinee, there was such a bottleneck of families waiting in clogged aisles to get to their seats in front sections that theatergoers were reduced to snarling at each other. The lights went out, the show started, and parents juggling kids and hot dogs were still trying to get seated.
That’s only one problem posed by the huge space that this perennial classic is now occupying, the New York stop on a national tour that launched in August. Only people seated close to the stage (once they get there) will be able to enjoy the facial expressions of the actors, led by the eternally young Cathy Rigby, still great fun to watch more than two decades after her Broadway debut in the role.
That’s too bad, but this “Peter Pan,” directed by Glenn Casale, is still an enjoyable experience for young children, and a show so rich in tradition — dating back to the 1954 Mary Martin production — that
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