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Women’s Health CLINIC OCTOBER 2015 SEASON | YEAR A NEWSLETTER DEDICATED TO GROUPS, ORGANIZATIONS AND FRIENDS OF THE FIRESIDE THEATRE So Come With Me Where Dreams Are Born! I WAS SIX YEARS OLD. I HAD ALREADY SEEN MY FIRST BROADWAY MUSICAL (THE MUSIC MAN) AND I WAS SINGING IN TALENT SHOWS. I WAS ALSO A VORACIOUS READER AND I LIVED A GOOD PORTION OF MY LIFE IN FRONT OF THE TV WATCHING DISNEY FILMS, AND OLD MOVIES. I WAS TOTALLY CAUGHT UP IN MAGICAL ADVENTURES. Then a couple of days after my sixth As much as I love this show it is nearly birthday, NBC broadcast a live version of unbelievable to me that in my five decade a current Broadway hit musical and I fell theatrical career I have never worked on in love with that show – a love I’ve kept to a production of it. this very day. The show was PETER PAN starring Mary Martin. Well that will no longer be true when I get to direct The Fireside’s fabulous new NBC broadcast it regularly after that production of PETER PAN in February in 1960, 1963, 1966, 1973, 1989, and of 2016! I am so excited to finally bring 1991. I watched every broadcast and to life this timeless tale of Lost Boys, even though I grew into in my 20’s Pirates, Indians, and that magical place and my 30’s I never lost that feeling of called Neverland. The music is tuneful “The music is tuneful and happy, enchantment and wonder. I have since and happy, the dancing is high-spirited, the dancing is high-spirited, the seen the Broadway revivals starring the costumes are fanciful, and the costumes are fanciful, and the Sandy Duncan and Cathy Rigby and I escapades of Peter, Wendy, Tiger Lily, escapades of Peter, Wendy, Tiger have DVD’s of the original Mary Martin and the notorious Captain Hook are filled Lily, and the notorious Captain telecasts and the Cathy Rigby revival.
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