‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ review: Neverland nincompoops bring laughs on Broadway
nypost.comPeter Pan Goes Wrong,” the happily hyperactive comedy that opened Wednesday night on Broadway, provides: missteps, mayhem, incapacitations, faulty sets and, in a roundabout way, “Fawlty Towers.”The very funny British play’s premise is the season’s simplest.
The amateur Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society tries to put on “Peter and Wendy” and fails epically. 2 hours and five minutes, with one intermission.
At the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 243 W. 47th St.But the execution of the disasters is almost balletic … well, if in “Swan Lake” the sets collapsed and unhinged children booed the dancers.Chris (Henry Shields), the play-within-a-play’s director and its Captain Hook, is the spitting image of John Cleese as the famous Britcom “Fawlty Towers”’ Basil, the beleaguered hotel owner.
And like Basil, he exaggeratedly tries to keep everything together and bungles it every time. He has to contend with shouting Dennis (Jonathan Sayer), who has his lines fed to him through headphones as he plays Michael Darling but keeps reciting radio commercials instead.
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