AUDIO: PETER PAN LIVE! Gets Three Newly Adapted Songs- Listen to the Originals!

As BroadwayWorld previously reported: in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Broadway composer Amanda Green and PETER PAN LIVE executive producer Neil Meron chat about expanding the lyrics to classic songs such as "I Won't Grow Up" and "I'm Flying," for NBC's upcoming live broadcast of the musical classic. Green is the daughter of one of Peter Pan's original lyricists, Adolph Green, and has an impressive list of theater credits of her own, including the recent Broadway musical 'Hands On a Hardbody.' Commenting on choosing Green for the job of adding new lyrics to familiar numbers, Meron explains, "It fleshed out the show. It deepened the characters, it kind of drove plot more-which good songs do in musicals. Amanda was just wonderful in capturing the spirit of her father and [Green's partner] Betty Comden."

The creative team also decided to add new songs to the show, including "Vengeance," described as "an entrance song for Captain Hook," adapted from "Ambition" from the musical Do Re Mi; "Only Pretend," a new song for Wendy which expresses her feelings for Pan, adapted from "I Know About Love," also from Do Re Mi; and "A Wonderful World Without Peter," a duet featuring Hook and Peter adapted from "Something's Always Happening On The River" from Say Darling.

Also new will be a reprise of "Only Pretend," performed by Mrs. Darling, and "When I Went Home," a song for Peter written Moose Charlap and Carolyn Leigh that originally appeared in the 1954 out-of-town try-out, but was later cut.
Says Meron, "When ["Home"] was sung originally in the show, according to history books, there was a very, very quiet, subdued reaction to it, because it was kind of melancholy. We felt that would work for our production, because we wanted to go into our characters a little bit more. We wanted to show a little bit of what went on inside of Peter. We restored the song, and it's gorgeous."

Want to know what the musical additions might sound like? Check out original recordings of the songs off of which they are based below!