Who benefits from the royalties from 'Peter Pan'?
Peter Pan Goes Wrong Bank Robbery". Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity benefited from royalties of the play, in accordance to the terms of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 which granted them a right to royalty in perpetuity from adaptations of the story of "Peter Pan" on stage, publication and film in the UK. Like "The Play That Goes Wrong", "Peter Pan Goes Wrong" received positive reviews. WhatsOnStage.com gave it five out of five stars. The original West End run was nominated for the 2016 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy but lost to "Nell Gwynn". The play was adapted into
Peter Pan production in 1927, where Jean Forbes-Robertson took the title role, and played the part with a lighter, more fairy-like, physicality. Robertson was to play the part almost every year until 1939. The character's name comes from two sources: Peter Llewelyn Davies, one of the five Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired the story, and Pan, a minor deity of Greek mythology who plays pipes to nymphs and is part human and part goat. This is referenced in Barrie's works (particularly "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens") where Peter Pan plays pipes to the fairies and rides a goat. The god Pan represents