Peter Pan Goes Wrong

HISTORY

In Peter Pan Goes Wrong, the team behind the Tony Award-winning global hit, The Play That Goes Wrong, bring their trademark comic mayhem to the J.M. Barrie classic Peter Pan. The play premiered at the Pleasance Theatre in London in 2013 before touring the UK in 2014 and finally transferring to the West End. Peter Pan Goes Wrong showed at the Apollo Theatre for a special Christmas season run in 2015, running from December 2015 until February 2016.

The play was adapted into a one-hour television special which was broadcast on 31 December 2016 on BBC One, guest starring David Suchet as the narrator and featuring the original cast. It then returned to the Apollo Theatre the following year for a second Christmas season run from October 2016 until January 2017, marking it as the third show running in the West End for Mischief after The Play That Goes Wrong and The Comedy About A Bank Robbery. The play then began a second UK tour in October 2019 at The Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham before visiting Cardiff, Cambridge, Brighton, and Salford prior to its final Christmas run at the Alexandra Palace in London from December 2019 until January 2020.

Peter Pan Goes Wrong transferred to Broadway in 2023 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre for a limited 16 weeks beginning in March, featuring most of the original cast and with guest appearances from Neil Patrick Harris and Ellie Kemper during its run. The production then premiered in L.A. at the Ahmanson Theatre with special guest appearances from Bradley Whitford and Daniel Dae Kim, before Neil Patrick Harris returned to the role until its closing night in September 2023.

SYNOPSIS

In Peter Pan Goes Wrong, the team behind the Tony Award-winning global hit, The Play That Goes Wrong, bring their trademark comic mayhem to the J.M. Barrie classic Peter Pan.

The much-loved members of The Cornley Drama Society once again battle against technical hitches, flying mishaps and cast disputes on their way to Neverland with hilarious and disastrous results.

CREATIVE TEAM

Adam Meggido

Director

Simon Scullion

Set Design

Roberto Surace

Costume Design

Matt Haskins

Lighting Design

Ella Wahlström

Sound Design

Richard Baker & Rob Falconer

Original Music Composition & Arrangement

Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer & Henry Shields after J.M. Barrie

Writers

ORIGINAL CAST

Ellie Morris

Toodles

Chris Leask

Trevor

Harry Kershaw

Chris

Matthew Cavendish

Max

Greg Tannahill

Jonathan

Matthew Howell

Robert

Charlie Russell

Sandra

Jean-Luke Worrell

Francis

Nancy Zamit

Annie

Clark Devlin

Dennis

Jamie Birkett

Annie

Claire Indy

Understudy

Consuela Rollie

Understudy

Romeo Mika

Understudy

Phil Yarrow

Understudy