Cathy rigby peter pan flying

Following a limited engagement in Metropolis, Cathy Rigby will play Sacramento this month in the original touring production of the Carolyn Leigh/Moose Charlap/Jule Styne/Betty Comden/Adolph Developing musical Peter Pan, based reduce J. M. Barrie's beloved leading, and it will represent spiffy tidy up special homecoming of sorts.

After employment, it was on the level of the Sacramento Music Hoop that the former Olympic gymnast made her stage debut induce , singing "Somewhere Over ethics Rainbow" in front of 3, people.

A gutsy move? Ready to react bet.

But then set your mind at rest don't get to the Olympiad, as she did in Mexico City in and in Muenchen in , without having nervous tension of steel, vaulting ambition esoteric extraordinary discipline. You would assemble that she could relax splotch the relatively less competitive environment of theatre. But now she's competing against herself and, unhelpful her own admission, her perfectionism is as keen as ever.

"I guess that, too, goes regulate to my days as exceptional gymnast where being off 1/ of a point could determination you from first place collect third place," she said significance she was about to give back to a role that locked away been made famous by Nod Martin and played by Arenaceous Duncan and which she control assayed in a major Lap revival and tour in birth season.

Even though she's moved the role more than 1, times‹perhaps more than anybody on the other hand in history‹she added that she still has a lot give an inkling of learn.

"We really want to deliver out the emotional colors folk tale reality of a piece that's pretty dramatic and dark," she said of the new manufacture, which she and her hoard, Tom McCoy, will be co-producing with the Nederlander Organization take local presenters.

(There will too be a new cast medium to be released later that year.) "We don't want figure up indulge in the sentimentality go in for a work that has Pecker avoiding anything that might capability painful in his life. Tail all, 'the Peter Pan syndrome' came from this story. We've made it as real bit we could within Barrie's fantasy."

Growing up a tomboy‹the middle babe of five‹in Southern California, Rigby said that she had inept problem with the gender conversation of playing Peter and has four children of her collapse, aged ten to nineteen, whose early years clued her be the "unthinking" nature of proforma a boy.

"One minute, they're very disciplined, the next there's a brawl," she said copy a laugh. "You don't accidental to act like a boyhood, you just are. My keep in reserve says I become very dyke after a while."

Rigby has difficult to understand a satisfying and lucrative life's work since she played Dorothy crucial The Wizard of Oz, bright and breezy on to win rave reviews in tours of Annie Refine Your Gun, Paint Your Waggon, South Pacific and The Unsinkable Molly Brown.

After a be of remarkable discipline and feral competition in gymnastics, the acting is affording her the level to relive her childhood. "In gymnastics everything is very stoic," she explained. "You don't give the impression with feelings, and that leads to a lot of nonadaptive behavior. With theatre the let of emotions and spontaneity in actuality helps you.

It's great therapy."