{"id":22231,"date":"2014-01-19T15:37:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T19:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=22231"},"modified":"2014-01-19T15:37:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T19:37:57","slug":"nbc-confirms-peter-pan-next-live-musical-airs-december-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/01\/19\/nbc-confirms-peter-pan-next-live-musical-airs-december-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC Confirms &#8220;Peter Pan&#8221; as Next Live Musical, Airs in December 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After hearing the sound of ratings dominance for its &#8220;The Sound of Music Live&#8221; special this past December, NBC was surely going to broadcast another live musical in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The only surprise of today&#8217;s announcement, therefore, is the fact that NBC has the willpower to wait until next December to broadcast the special.<\/p>\n<p>NBC&#8217;s Robert Greenblatt announced Sunday that &#8220;Peter Pan Live,&#8221; the network&#8217;s second live musical staging, will air on December 4, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very pleased to be underway on \u2018Peter Pan\u2019 as our next live holiday musical for the whole family,\u201d said Greenblatt. \u201cWe were all delighted to see how \u2018The Sound of Music Live!\u2019 struck such a chord in December and brought nearly 19 million people to the live telecast plus another several million viewers over the weekend. In the hopes that lightning strikes twice, we think we\u2019ve landed on another great Broadway musical \u2014 which ironically also starred Mary Martin \u2014 that is a timeless classic for all audiences, young and old, who just never want to grow up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following the musical&#8217;s short run on Broadway, NBC famously televised a live version of &#8220;Peter Pan&#8221; in 1955.  After drawing 65 million viewers for that special, NBC broadcast additional live &#8220;Peter Pan&#8221; shows in 1956 and 1960.<\/p>\n<p>NBC has not yet cast the live &#8220;Peter Pan&#8221; musical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1048],"tags":[210,1557,1366],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NBC Confirms &quot;Peter Pan&quot; as Next Live Musical, Airs in December 2014<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After hearing the sound of ratings dominance for its &quot;The Sound of Music Live&quot; special this past December, NBC was surely going to broadcast another live\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/01\/19\/nbc-confirms-peter-pan-next-live-musical-airs-december-2014\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NBC Confirms &quot;Peter Pan&quot; as Next Live Musical, Airs in December 2014\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"After hearing the sound of ratings dominance for its &quot;The Sound of Music Live&quot; special this past December, NBC was surely going to broadcast another live\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/01\/19\/nbc-confirms-peter-pan-next-live-musical-airs-december-2014\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Headline Planet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-01-19T19:37:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brian Cantor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cantorpedia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@headlineplanet\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/01\/19\/nbc-confirms-peter-pan-next-live-musical-airs-december-2014\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/01\/19\/nbc-confirms-peter-pan-next-live-musical-airs-december-2014\/\",\"name\":\"NBC Confirms \\\"Peter Pan\\\" as Next Live Musical, Airs in December 2014\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-01-19T19:37:57+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-01-19T19:37:57+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\"},\"description\":\"After hearing the sound of ratings dominance for its \\\"The Sound of Music Live\\\" special this past December, NBC was surely going to broadcast another live\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/01\/19\/nbc-confirms-peter-pan-next-live-musical-airs-december-2014\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/\",\"name\":\"Headline Planet\",\"description\":\"Music News &amp; Charts, TV News &amp; Spoilers\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\",\"name\":\"Brian Cantor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Brian Cantor\"},\"description\":\"Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. 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