Nevertheless, on March 7, 1955 — 70 years ago today — NBC broadcast the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical “Peter Pan” starring Mary Martin in color. It became the highest-rated TV ...

It was the late ’90s, yet another “Peter Pan” project was in the works ... also cast Peter — previously played onstage by Mary Martin, Sandy Duncan and Cathy Rigby — with a young ...

“Peter Pan” the musical has coasted for so long that a ... Originally, on Broadway in the mid-1950s, it was Mary Martin. Bushnell audiences probably most remember Sandy Duncan in the 1980s ...