The Harry Potter of his day, Peter Pan – aka “the boy who wouldn’t grow up” – was introduced to the world by Scottish author and playwright J.M. Barrie in 1904. The Broadway producer who funded the play thought that a male actor didn’t fit the part of an eternal boy, so he suggested that Peter Pan should be play thought that that a male actor didn’t fit the part of an eternal boy, so he suggested that peter Pan should be played by a woman. An actress was chosen for the role in both the American and English versions, and the tradition of casting a woman to play Peter ha continued almost ever since (although Peter has been played by a man in nearly every movie version of the tale).
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