Christopher Walken will star as Captain Hook in NBC ’s live degree performance of Peter Pan . And he ’ll be tap dancing .
According toThe Hollywood Reporter , NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt is expected to announce Walken ’s cast at today ’s Television Critics Association ’s summer closet tour .
This is n’t the first meter NBC has present a unrecorded broadcast of aPeter Pan musical . The new take on the play comes almost sixty year after the web ’s bouncy telecast of the Broadway production , which open in 1954 . Sez Walken :
I start my career in musical comedy and it ’s wonderful after all this meter , at this point in my career , to be in this classic musical I see as a nestling and to work with Neil Meron and Craig Zadan again afterHairspray . It ’s a chance to put on my rap horseshoe again .
On that last power point , Greenblatt has said that Walken ’s might be “ the first tap dancing maitre d’hotel Hook you ’ve ever seen . ” Normally , the cerebration of a toe - tapping Hook would give us pause , but this ? This we ’re actually kind of excited about . I intend , have you check Walken dance ? The man knows how to move :
See also :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wbaAV01qG8
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