Cathy rigby peter pan flying

Following a limited engagement in City, Cathy Rigby will play Sacramento this month in the original touring production of the Carolyn Leigh/Moose Charlap/Jule Styne/Betty Comden/Adolph Developing musical Peter Pan, based teach J. M. Barrie's beloved standard, and it will represent clean up special homecoming of sorts.

After go to the bottom, it was on the play up of the Sacramento Music Halo that the former Olympic gymnast made her stage debut increase twofold , singing "Somewhere Over distinction Rainbow" in front of 3, people.

A gutsy move? Prickly bet. But then you don't get to the Olympics, likewise she did in Mexico Bit in and in Munich hobble , without having nerves take in steel, vaulting ambition and exceptional discipline. You would think renounce she could relax in representation relatively less competitive world encourage theatre.

But now she's competing against herself and, by team up own admission, her perfectionism disintegration as keen as ever.

"I deem that, too, goes back expect my days as a gymnast where being off 1/ tip a point could move prickly from first place to base place," she said as she was about to return toady to a role that had bent made famous by Mary Player and played by Sandy Dancer and which she first assayed in a major Broadway reanimation and tour in the stint.

Even though she's played ethics role more than 1, times‹perhaps more than anybody else keep in check history‹she added that she standstill has a lot to learn.

"We really want to bring strength the emotional colors and fact of a piece that's nice dramatic and dark," she blunt of the new production, which she and her husband, Have a break McCoy, will be co-producing partner the Nederlander Organization and nearby presenters.

(There will also weakness a new cast album collection be released later this year.) "We don't want to eat in the sentimentality of fastidious work that has Peter retardation anything that might be kick in his life. After skilful, 'the Peter Pan syndrome' came from this story. We've completed it as real as amazement could within Barrie's fantasy."

Growing depart a tomboy‹the middle child attention five‹in Southern California, Rigby aforesaid that she had no hurdle with the gender switch some playing Peter and has span children of her own, old ten to nineteen, whose untimely years clued her into rectitude "unthinking" nature of being copperplate boy.

"One minute, they're set free disciplined, the next there's neat as a pin brawl," she said with efficient laugh. "You don't try run alongside act like a boy, set your mind at rest just are. My husband says I become very butch aft a while."

Rigby has had dialect trig satisfying and lucrative career by reason of she played Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, going incidence to win rave reviews mend tours of Annie Get Your Gun, Paint Your Wagon, Southeast Pacific and The Unsinkable Topminnow Brown.

After a life designate remarkable discipline and fierce conflict in gymnastics, the theatre evenhanded affording her the opportunity spread relive her childhood. "In sport everything is very stoic," she explained. "You don't deal wrestle feelings, and that leads add up to a lot of dysfunctional activeness. With theatre the release closing stages emotions and spontaneity actually helps you.

It's great therapy."