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4/16/2010 Feature article on the flying in Northern Ballet Theatre's Peter Pan in the UK. This is a very fun article from "This is Nottingham" 4/16/2010 UK writer, Mark Shenton, writing in his blog, "The Stage", writes about Peter and Barbara Foy in the midst of his review of Twyla Tharp's new Broadway offering. This is a fun tribute. 3/18/2010 San Diego News Network: ‘Peter Pan’ soars at City Ballet of San Diego "Flying is as essential to “Peter Pan” as pixie dust is to Tinker Bell. So dancers at City Ballet of San Diego are strapping on their flying harnesses in preparation for the family-pleasing, three-performance engagement March 20-21." " The eye-opening sequences are possible thanks to Flying by Foy, the company that’s tops in airborne effects and has worked on everything from Broadway shows to church pageants and NASA simulations. And because the performers are ballet dancers, they’re dancing as well as flying. " 12/1/2009 Hull High's 'Chocolate Factory' takes flight -- literally - Nice story from the Patriot Ledger about this school production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 03/11/2009 SILive.Com Staten Island AWE writer wings it for 'Garden of Earthly Delights' by Lisa Ann Williamson - An insider account, with some nice video. 12/27/2008 Newsday Joins NY Times in Identifying Foy Shows within the top 10 NY shows this season [Garden of Earthly Delights and Billy Elliot.] 12/19/2008 BERNSTEIN PETER PAN MOUNTED IN CALIFORNIA - Another feature on this milestone revival. 12/18/2008 Peter Pan Set for Lobero Theatre - Feature on the long-awaited revival of the Leonard Bernstein version of Peter Pan - Article published in the Santa Ynez Valley Journal in California 12/08/2008 Radio City Christmas Spectacular - Feature on the touring production from The Columbus [Ohio] Dispatch 11/13/2008 High School Drama Reaches New High With Stage Flight - Foy helps secure the success of this Youngstown, Ohio production of Fiddler on the Roof 11/12/2008 Peter Pan at Cocoa Village Playhouse - Learn about this Florida production. 11/10/2008 Barksdale High School Presents A Christmas Carol - Learn more about this Cape Cod production. 11/06/2008 High Wire Act - High School Students in Rhode Island mount Peter Pan 11/04/2008 Pittsburgh Opera Presents Grapes of Wrath - The production is profiled on Broadway World 10/31/2008 Pixie Dust and Pulleys Get Peter Pan off the Ground - Peter flies in St. Petersburg, Florida 10/30/2008 Watch Peter Pan Soar - John Glen High School in Michigan Flies by Foy! 10/22/2008
Clarke's Garden of Earthly
Delights Announces New Off-Broadway Dates
- Playbill article on this amazing show.
10/21/2008
Martha Clarke Directs Garden
of Earthly Delights - Broadway World's
news on the coming opening Off-Broadway, of The Garden of Earthly Delights
10/20/2008 Peter Pan Flies in Colorado - Story about a production of Pan at Broomfield High School in Colorado 09/17/2008 Royal Winipeg Ballet Production of Peter Pan 09/02/2008 Hi-Liners soar in Peter Pan - Article profiles a production from Hi-Liners located in Washington State 04/10/2008 'Wizard of Oz' Will Feature Floating Characters - This article features a glimpse of the preparations for Wizard of Oz at the Williamsport High School in Maryland 03/02/2008 Magic, of course - The Columbus Dispatch feature on BalletMet's Production of Aladdin 12/05/2007 Finding Nemo, the Musical - Profiled in LiveDesign 11/15/2007 Crystal Cathedral Angels Fly for the First Time - Story in the Orange County Register. 05/20/2007 Aerial expert flies in to add 'Pan' magic - Omaha World_Herald feature on the Omaha Community Playhouse production of Peter Pan 02/02/2007 A Show That Comes With Strings Attached - Washington Post article on the mounting of the play, Vigils at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, DC 20/3/2005 "Learning to Fly? Easy as Up You Go" - Article from the Eugene, OR Registar Guard on a Rose Children's Theatre production of Peter Pan. Informative article. 09/30/2004 PETER PAN BALLET - Reviewed in the Houston Chronicle 11/14/2003 Shakespeare's Dream Takes Flight - Feature in The Washington Post on the preparations for flying performers in The Shakespeare Theatre's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream 12/05/2003 Flying by Foy Lifts Peter Pan - Story in the Honolulu Star Bulletin about preparation for a production of Peter Pan at the Diamond Head Theatre. 10/05/2002
Peter Foy 'Airographer' - Marvelous story and
audio file from Scott Simon on National Public Radio
07/01/2000 Pan in Australia - This article in Live Design Magazine profiles the work on the $6 million lavish production. 01/13/1991 Tunes From Arlen to Kern, Mermaids in Clamshells - Feature Article in The New York Times on the preparations to bring the show, Ziegfeld: A Night at the Follies to Broadway. 12/09/1990 Flights of Fancy - Feature article in the New York Times as Peter Foy prepares to fly Cathy Rigby in Peter Pan on Broadway 5/15/1987
'Delights' by Clarke Preparing for Takeoff
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This NY Times article by Eleanor Blau on the revival
of Martha Clarke's Garden of Earthly Delights,
features a great interview with Peter Foy himself.
09/24/1979 The Man Who Flies Peter Pan - Nice article from New York Magazine 12/10/1969 Gary Foy Flies Sandy Duncan on Broadway - New Yorker Article Subscription Required 09/24/1967
Will Barbra Make it Big in Movies? - A wonderful
account of 04/22/1950 New Yorker article on Peter Foy's flying of Jean Arthur in Broadway's Peter Pan [requires a subscription to read the full article]
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