Peter Land
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Peter Land (July 9, 1953) is a New Zealand actor and singer born Peter Oliver White in Taihape. Educated at Palmerston North Boys' High School,Victoria University of Wellington and Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School, he achieved notable stage success after moving to England in 1977. His West End musical debut was as Freddy in My Fair Lady followed by seasons at the National Theatre in Galileo with Sir Michael Gambon and the Royal Shakespeare Company in A Winter's Tale with Patrick Stewart, Proteus in The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Alls 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, Savory in One Touch of Venus and in 2007 as Captain Hook in a new adaptation of J.M.Barrie's Peter Pan with music and lyrics by Leonard Bernstein and is the first to sing Bernstein's: 'Captain Hook's Soliloquy' in a stage production. Land married the well-known director and choreographer Gillian Lynne in 1980.
