A) It was a concept that would have built-in name recognition and mass appeal, and:<\/p>\n B) The characters in Peter Pan are now in the public domain, so there\u2019s no sticky copyright issues to worry about.<\/p>\n I\u2019d rather not summarize the story, as I still hold out hope that the thing well actually get produced someday, but I thought you folks might be interested in the four songs from a demo CD we recorded. An old friend of mine who now teaches at BYU hired the singers and musicans and orchestrated the arrangements, and I wasn\u2019t present for the recording session \u2013 I wrote all the songs, but I don\u2019t know any of the people who are singing them.<\/p>\n Neverland<\/a> Hook of the Jolly Roger<\/a> A Princess Bride <\/a> Dead (The Lost Boys Funeral Song)<\/a> So whaddya think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SoI wrote a musical.Not many people do that these days. That\u2019s because new musical is expensive to produce and exceedingly likely to flop. Once upon a time, show tunes were hit records, and musical adaptations swept the Academy Awards. Nowadays, a musical comes along every decade or so that captures the public imagination, but most ... Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2753","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"PeterPan2\"](\"http:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/PeterPan2.jpg\")
<\/a>The show is called “Neverland,” and it\u2019s a sequel of sorts to the classic story of Peter Pan. I chose Peter Pan as a subject because:<\/p>\n
\nIn many ways, this is the weakest recording of the four, only because the soprano’s got a really hooty voice that makes it hard to understand the words. I like the arrangement, though, with its groovy Celtic feel and the beautful use of the tin whistle. When the harmony kicks in, I really dig it. This song opens the show.<\/p>\n
\nGoofy fun, and it includes some transitional dialogue from the show. That’s my old friend, the guy who orchestrated this whole thing, playing Smee. Only drawback: Both this song and the fourth song, Dead<\/span>, rhyme “dinner” with “innards.” What’s my problem, I wonder?<\/p>\n
\nOriginally written for an aborted stage adaptation of the movie The Princess Bride <\/span>– there’s that sticky copyright issue again – the song was altered to fit Princess Tiger Lily’s dilemma, as she has to choose between a prince and Peter.<\/p>\n
\nI’ve sung this song in public many times. This version needs percussion, but otherwise, it works pretty well. Dead<\/span> demonstrates that no one really dies in Neverland – a lost boy who is killed at the end of Act I is the one who sings the last verse. It also has the word “stallion” in it.<\/p>\n