"Growing up is such a barbaric affair," James Matthew Barrie stated, and with Peter Pan he created the story of a boy who doesn't want to grow up. Peter experiences playful, imaginative adventures with the children of an orphanage.

In 1950, Leonard Bernstein was commissioned to compose stage music for a Broadway production of J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan. He was so enthusiastic about the material while working on it that the score took on a larger scale than planned. The new production at the Gerhart Hauptmann Theater, which takes Bernstein's score as the starting point for a new narrative of the children's book classic, is the world's first implementation of the music as a dance piece.‎

Cross-disciplinary production: dance company, music theater ensemble, opera choir of the Gerhart Hauptmann Theater, Neue Lausitzer Philharmonie