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Friday, December 05, 2014

Ugg-A-Wha? Updating Stereotypes in 'Peter Pan'

NYTimes.com: Is there anything that says “Native American” more than Sondra Lee?

If you answered “yes, almost everything,” well, bingo. But that didn’t stop Jerome Robbins from casting the platinum blond Ms. Lee as Tiger Lily in his 1954 musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie’s “Peter Pan,” which went on to be a hit on Broadway and in later telecasts on NBC.

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