Peter Land

Peter Land
Born	Peter Oliver White 9 July 1953 Taihape, New Zealand
Spouse	Gillian Lynne

Peter Land (9 July 1953) is a New Zealand actor and singer known for his classical acting with the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company as well as appearances in many musicals.

Biography

Early life

Born Peter Oliver White in Taihape, he is the third child of Dr. Allan Neil White, made M.N.Z.M. for services to Medicine and the Community in the New Zealand New Year Honours 2007 and Molly Louise Copeland, whose maiden name provided Land with his last name. Educated at Palmerston North Boys' High School, Victoria University of Wellington (graduating from the Drama Department) and Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School, he achieved notable stage success after moving to England in October 1977.

Career

His West End musical debut was as Freddy in My Fair Lady followed by seasons at the Royal National Theatre in Life of Galileo with Sir Michael Gambon and the Royal Shakespeare Company in The Winter's Tale with Patrick Stewart, Proteus in The Two Gentlemen of Verona and All's Well That Ends Well with Dame Peggy Ashcroft. Equally at home in musicals with roles such as Cliff in Cabaret, Andre in The Phantom of the Opera, Snodgrass in Pickwick, Savory in One Touch of Venus and in 2007 as Captain Hook in a new adaptation of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan. In this production, he sang the first stage performance of "Captain Hook's Soliloquy", composed by Leonard Bernstein in 1950 and given its world premiere in concert by baritone Lawrence Tibbett. Summer of 2008 Land appeared successfully as Rene Auberjonois's brother Beralde in Molière's The Imaginary Invalid, the season's hit at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington D.C. directed by Keith Baxter. 2010/11 sees Land back at The King's Head Theatre renamed London's Little Opera House debuting as The Bonze in OperaUpClose's radical reinterpretation of Puccini's Madam Butterfly directed by Adam Spreadbury-Maher.

Personal life

Land married the well-known director and choreographer Gillian Lynne in 1980.

Trivia

During the week 10 to 17 January 1987 Land as Cliff Bradshaw 'fell in love' with four different Sally Bowles in the West End revival of Cabaret: Kelly Hunter, Caroline O'Connor, Toyah Willcox and Kalli Greenwood. Cast change and sickness made for this unusual occurrence possibly a West End record .

External links

• Peter Land at IMDb
• Peter Land at the Internet Broadway Database
• Peter Land Toi Whakaari Success Story
• Peter Land in Now or Never