{"id":2386,"date":"2014-12-06T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2386"},"modified":"2025-09-28T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:30:00","slug":"my-friend-sue-konigs-column-on-the-live-peter-pan-on-nbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2386","title":{"rendered":"My friend Sue Konig&#8217;s NRO column on the live &#8220;Peter Pan&#8221; on NBC."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which I was going to DVR and then forgot! Rats. I was a huge fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mary_Martin\" target=\"_self\">Mary Martin<\/a> as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Pan_%281954_musical%29\" target=\"_self\">Peter Pan<\/a>, way back when (1955 on NBC).<\/p>\n<p>However, the reviews of the latest recreation of Peter Pan weren&#39;t very good.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s Sue&#39;s &#8211; hit the link for the whole amusing column<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/393924\/no-ugg-wugg-wha-susan-konig\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\"> No Ugg a Wugg . . . Wha? Political correctness vs. Peter Pan <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I think we can all agree that there are scenes in popular movies and plays from decades ago that cause us to say, wow, that is not gonna fly these days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">But is \u201cUgg a Wugg\u201d really in that category? \u201cUgg a Wugg\u201d is the song that Peter Pan sings with the \u201cIndian\u201d girl Tiger Lily. It\u2019s about counting on each other. It has lyrics that children would make up and is a nonsense friendship song. Not only is it <em>not<\/em> about Native Americans, but the mythical tribe it so positively portrays allows the play to introduce themes of bonding amongst diverse groups, equality between the sexes, and brotherhood across racial identity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Tiger Lily and her tribe are not Native Americans. They live in a made-up place: Neverland. How do you get there? Second star to the right and straight on \u2019til morning. That is not an actual place. Google Map it \u2014 it won\u2019t come up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which I was going to DVR and then forgot! Rats. I was a huge fan of Mary Martin as Peter Pan, way back when (1955 on NBC). However, the reviews of the latest recreation of Peter Pan weren&#39;t very good. Here&#39;s Sue&#39;s &#8211; hit the link for the whole amusing column No Ugg a Wugg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8262,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions\/8262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}