Okay, Peter Pan, Tiny Tim, and Barnabas walk into a bar….
Not really. I does sound like the lead-in to a great bar joke, though, doesn’t it?
No, it’s this picture.
Peter Pan, Tiny Tim, and Barnabas
Oh, and Tolkien, too, I guess.
The year was 1969 or so. on the wall are posters of Tiny Tim and Barnabas Collins, the sometimes-vampire (sometimes he got better). I was taking a class in theatrical makeup, and was designing makeup for Peter Pan. That theatrical makeup kit stayed with me for many years, deep into motherhood, and did duty for many a Halloween.
Mad props to Debbie Leuders, one of my roommates and still a dear friend, for the picture.
A WRITING PROMPT FOR YOU: Try to come up with a joke that goes with that lead-in. Double points if it’s clean.
MA
Jane
December 12, 2014 at 10:46amHi, little elf.
Peter Pan…I think the best version of Pan I ever saw was the one acted out by me and Sonnie McPherson when we were no more than seven. Sonnie was a big ol’ kid, with a butt crack when he leaned over his bike to fix the wheel, and he was indistingishable from any old trailer park kid (Neither of us lived in a trailer park.)
But when Sonnie stood up there on top of the picnic table and ad libbed a soliloquy from Peter’s point of view, I felt tears coming on. It was one of the most beautiful performances I’ve ever seen, by anyone. Sonnie WAS Pan.
THAT is the power of imagination.
Marian Allen
December 12, 2014 at 11:05amWow. Just wow. Wish I could have seen that.