The Mountain Play Association decided this week to give the hook to its originally planned 2010 production of Peter Pan, instead opting for the Broadway musical, Guys and Dolls. After four months of work on the J.M. Barrie classic, MPA discovered that the London-based multimedia production of Peter Pan will premiere in San Francisco three weeks prior to the Mt. Tam opening day performance in May. Not wanting to compete with a larger, bigger-budgeted theater company and further risk losing ticket sales in an uncertain economic climate, Mountain Play organizers decided Peter wasn't going to pan out. Switching gears, MPA was able to secure the rights to produce Guys and Dolls--which opened on Broadway in 1950, won a Tony Award for best musical, and starred Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando in the 1955 film--as a replacement.

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