Our First Hook into NBC's Peter Pan Live

March 22, 2017

Last December, NBC brightened our holiday season with The Sound of Music Live! featuring Carrie Underwood. Reviews may have been somewhat mixed (OK, so it tanked with the critics), but the fact remains: SOML! reached nearly 22 million viewers if you include DVR. People love a good musical.


Here at DS, we’d like to count ourselves among those people (huge surprise, I know). So we were thrilled to find out that the executive producers of the show—Craig Zadan and Neil Meron—are planning another live telecast musical for the 2014 Holiday Season. You guys, Peter Pan Live is coming to town.

On Sunday, NBC made the first casting announcement: Christopher Walken will play Captain Hook. Walken is no stranger to onscreen musical theater. He played John Travolta’s husband in the 2007 film adaptation of Hairspray and Gyp DeCarlo in the Clint Eastwood’s recently released adaptation of Jersey Boys.

But here’s the greatest part: This Captain Hook is gonna tap dance. We’re not quite sure how that’ll work out (sinister tap dancing? hmmm…), but we’re pumped, nonetheless. And just in case you’re worried Walken doesn’t have the dancing chops to make it work, here’s a little reassurance—EPIC-dance-supercut-style (courtesy Huffpost Entertainment).