

The play has since been adapted as a pantomime, a stage musical, a television special, and several films, including a 1924 silent film, the 1953 Disney animated film, and a 2003 live action production. It was later revived with such actresses as Marilyn Miller and Eva Le Gallienne. A Broadway production was mounted in 1905 starring Maude Adams. The play debuted at the Duke of York's Theatre in London on 27 December 1904 with Nina Boucicault, daughter of the playwright Dion Boucicault, in the title role. Barrie continued to revise the play for years after its debut until publication of the play script in 1928. The play and novel were inspired by Barrie's friendship with the Llewelyn Davies family. The Peter Pan stories also involve the characters Wendy Darling and her two brothers John and Michael, Peter's fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, and the pirate Captain Hook. Both versions tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and has many adventures on the island of Neverland that is inhabited by mermaids, fairies, " Indians" (American-Indians), and pirates. Barrie, in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel titled Peter and Wendy, often extended in Peter Pan and Wendy. Peter Pan or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, often known simply as Peter Pan, is a work by J.
