Tuacahn

Tuacahn Center for the Arts is a non-profit 501(c)(3) arts center located in the mouth of the Padre Canyon, adjacent to Snow Canyon State Park, in Ivins, Utah. The 42,000-square-foot (3,900 m²) facility was completed in 1995 and includes a 1,920-seat outdoor amphitheater, a 328-seat indoor theater, a black box theater, a dance studio, a costume shop, a scene shop, and Tuacahn High School, an arts specialty high school. Tuacahn's show season includes two or three productions for the amphitheater stage, usually one for the indoor Hafen Theater, a live-action recreation of the nativity called the Festival of Lights, and a spring and fall concert series.

History

Tuacahn was founded in 1995 by Utah playwright Douglas C. Stewart. Partnering with philanthropist, and creator of the Franklin Planner, Hyrum W. Smith, he planned the creation of a setting where the story of the founding of southern Utah could be told. The two, using a plot of 80 acres owned by Orval Hafen, set to building this dream.

Peter Pan

Peter Pan is a character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie. A mischievous boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the small island of Neverland as the leader of his gang, the Lost Boys, interacting with mermaids, Native Americans, fairies, pirates, and occasionally ordinary children from the world outside Neverland. In addition to two distinct works by Barrie, the character has been featured in a variety of media and merchandise, both adapting and expanding on Barrie's works. These include an animated film, a dramatic film, a TV series and other works.

Origin

J. M. Barrie first used Peter Pan as a character in a section of The Little White Bird (1902), an adult novel.

He returned to that character as the centre of his stage play entitled Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, which premiered on 27 December 1904 in London. The play was highly popular, running to 1913.

Following the success of the 1904 play, Barrie's publishers, Hodder and Stoughton, extracted chapters 13–18 of The Little White Bird and republished them in 1906 under the title Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, with the addition of illustrations by Arthur Rackham.