For many theater fans, seeing Cathy Rigby as Peter Pan never gets old – fittingly for a story about a boy who never grows up.

That’s lucky for her La Mirada company, McCoy Rigby Entertainment, which she runs with her husband, Tom McCoy. The 60-year-old actress is reprising her role as the lead in “Peter Pan,” which will begin its two-week run at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood on Jan. 15. It’s the theater’s first production of the musical since 2004.

The revival received backing from Pantages owner Nederlander Organization, the New York company that financed McCoy Rigby’s first “Peter Pan” production in 1990. The companies have worked together to put on shows such as “Annie Get Your Gun” and “Jekyll & Hyde,” which comes to Los Angeles later this year.

McCoy said Nederlander signed on for the new version of “Peter Pan” because of the popularity of the material and Rigby’s ability to draw crowds.

“Every seven or eight years, there’s a new corral of children whose families are always looking for something to take them to, and this seems to always fill that role,” said McCoy.

The Pantages run is part of a tour that will cost $1.5 million to produce.

For Rigby, this will be the last turn in the role that earned her a 1991 Tony nomination.

The physical demands on Rigby – who gained fame as the highest-scoring American gymnast in the 1968 Summer Olympics – are part of why audiences continue to come to the show after all these years, McCoy said. Rigby uses wires to fly across the stage, singing between the stunts.

“It’s Olympic-quality stuff,” he said. “When she hooks up into that harness, she flies and she wants to go faster and higher. Actors in their 20s and 30s stand in awe.”

– Ryan Faughnder