‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ review — never-ending laughs abound in this Neverland
But Peter Pan Goes Wrong benefits from the familiar framing of a classic story: There is anticipatory laughter in waiting to see just how the amateur company will hoist actors in the air and fashion a crocodile. (The answers: poorly, and with an actor in a childish onesie on a rolling board.)
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