You've got to believe in 'Peter Pan' production

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July 20, 2007

By Darragh Doiron The Port Arthur News Fri Jul 20, 2007, 04:13 PM CDT

Do you belief in fairies?

The “Peter Pan” audience obviously wants to clap their hands to save Tinkerbell, but they also want to give Captain Hook his due.

As uplifting as Peter Pan is —literally, as the character flies — and as cuddly as those dirty ragamuffin Lost Boys and adorable Indian girls are, Captain Hook and his gang of bumbling pirates get lots of laughs in Port Arthur’s big summer musical.

Famlies have three weekends to catch Lamar State College-Port Arthur and The Port Arthur Little Theater production. Director Keith Cockrell and a legion of talented actors have spun a city-wide fairy tale.

Victoria LeBlanc has played lots of leading ladies, and this may be her first leading boy. As Peter Pan she enthusiastically leads the Darling children to Neverland where they encounter bows and arrows, boys who need bedtime stories and pirates afraid of a ticking crocodile.

Kelly Lyons plays the curly-maned, grandiose Hook, who wants a mother as much as the Lost Boys. He swears with phrases like “bicarbonate of soda” and is generally a big baby in velvet brocade and gold braids. The audience loves him alone, and with his band of dancing pirates.

As usual, the Lamar/PALT production has elaborate sets. The pirate ship sails on and off, Pan and the Darlings glide through the air and the forest ground lifts up to reveal the Lost Boys’ underground hideout.

When pirates, Tiger Lily’s Indians, Lost Boys, etc. crowd onto that stage, it seems like you’ve got to know a goodly percentage of the cast, at least through the eight degrees of separation rule. But those crowded scenes are among the best. They’re full of laughter, adventure and hope.

If you believe in fairies, I believe you should see “Peter Pan.”

Lamar State College-Port Arthur and The Port Arthur Little Theater will present the classic musical “Peter Pan,” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 21 and July 26-28 and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, July 22, in the Lamar Theater on the LSC-PA campus off Lakeshore Drive.

Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for children and seniors.

For reservations, call 409-984-6111.

Contact this reporter at ddoiron@panews.com.

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