WSJ.com: As the opening of what the producers hope will be a 20-month-long U.S. run—beginning with a stay of several months here—a visually dazzling, London-born production of J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan" opened in May in a round white tent, erected in the big public plaza across The Embarcadero from San Francisco's welcoming Ferry Building of 1898.
The production requires its own custom-built tent (shipped from London and requiring two weeks to set up) because its great novelty is a circular, convex video screen. Thirty-three feet high and 460 feet around, it covers the inside of the tent between 12 rows of in-the-round seating (capacity 1,350) and a peaked cupola that houses five tons of lighting and other technical equipment—including the people and gear manipulating the wires that enable Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, Wendy and her two brothers to fly through the air over our heads.
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