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ACT ONE

#1 - Overture . . . …

Scene 1

THE DARLING NURSERY

[After the Overture the house curtain rises]

A scrim drop representing the DARLING residence is seen.

#2 - Prologue . . . ..

At Bar 12 the lights fade through the Darling Residence scrim into the Nursery.

Across the back center is huge, divided window whose shutters are open. On stage
L are two beds (JOHN’s and MICHAEL’s), stage R there is one bed (WENDY’s).
Above her bed is a dresser and above the dresser there is a flight of stairs leading
up and off. Doors are ULC and URC on each side of the big center window. DL is
a fireplace where a coal grade burns cheerily. On the mantel is a milk-glass jar
that TINKER BELL will use to hide in. A stool is near the fireplace; DR there
stands a hobby horse. Children’s toys are all about the room.

Behind the scrim WENDY, dressed up with her mother’s hat and boa, and JOHN,
wearing his father’s top hat and tailcoat, come forward doing a Swiss clock
dance. LIZA is dusting the hearth.

[At Bar 18 the scrim flies out]

WENDY & JOHN

ONE, TWO THREE, ONE TWO THREE,

ONE, TWO THREE, ONE TWO THREE.
(NANA pushes MICHAEL on from the door R)

MICHAEL
I won’t go to bed, Nana, I won’t go to bed. Lisa, it isn’t six o’clock yet, is it?

LIZA
(Consulting watch [oh her shirtwaist])
Yes.

MICHAEL
Nana, do I have to go to bed?
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NANA
(Barking) Woof! Woof!
(NANA pushes MICHAEL out the door UR)

WENDY
Liza, we’re pretending we’re Mother and Father and we’re going to the ball
tonight. Come play!

LIZA
(Picking up her bucket and going to UL portal)
Always playing games. I have much more important things to do than play at
make-believe and dancing.
[WENDY sighs and she and JOHN resume the dance]

WENDY & JOHN

(Counting off)
One, two, three, one, two, three-
(MRS. DARLING enters UL [Bar 40] and goes to the window)

MRS. DARLING
[Laughing]
Wendy! John!

WENDY
Mother!

JOHN
Oh, Mother! You look lovely!

MRS. DARLING
Why, thank you!
(To WENDY)
What are you doing in my old hat?

WENDY
We’re doing an act.

JOHN
We’re playing at being you and Father. I’m Father.
(Mimics his father’s voice)
“A little less noise there - a little less noise!”
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MICHAEL
(Entering UR)
Mother! They never let me play Father. They never let me dance.

MRS. DARLING
Well, we’ll soon fix that.
(She takes the top hat from JOHN and places it on MICHAEL)
May I have the honor of this dance, Mr. Darling?
(MICHAEL throws a triumphant look at JOHN, bows to his mother, and
all four dance)

ALL
ONE, TWO THREE, ONE, TWO THREE,
ONE, TWO THREE, ONE, TWO THREE,
ONE, TWO THREE, ONE, TWO THREE,
ONE, TWO THREE, ONE!
[On final chord, ALL bow to each other]

MRS. DARLING
You dance beautifully, Mr. Darling.

MR. DARLING
(Off)
Mother! Mother!

(MR. DARLING arrives, in no mood unfortunately to gloat over this

domestic scene. [He is really a good man as bread-winners go, and it is
hard luck for him to be propelled into the room now, when if we had
brought him in a few minutes earlier or later he might have made a fairer
impression. In the city where he sits on a stool all day, as fixed as a
postage stamp, his is so like all the others on stools that you recognise him
not by his face but by his stool, but at home the way to gratify him is to say
that he has a distinct personality.] He is very conscientious, and in the
days when MRS. DARLING gave up keeping the house books correctly
and drew pictures instead (which he called her guesses), he did all the
totting up for her, holding her hand while he calculated whether they
could have Wendy or not, and coming down on the right side. It is with
regret, therefore, that we introduce him as a tornado, rushing into the
nursery in evening dress, but without his coat, and brandishing in his hand
a recalcitrant white tie.)

(Implying that he has searched for her everywhere and that the nursery is
a strange place in which to find her)
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(MR. DARLING)
Oh, here you are, Mary.

MRS. DARLING
(Knowing at once what is the matter)
What is the matter, George dear?

MR. DARLING
(As if the word were monstrous)
Matter? This tie, it will not tie.
(He waxes sarcastic)
Not round my neck. Round the bed-post, oh yes - but round my neck, oh dear no;
begs to be excused.

MICHAEL
(In a joyous transport)
Say it again, father, say it again!

MR. DARLING
(Witheringly)
A little less noise there.
(Goaded by an auspiciously crooked smile on MRS. DARLING’s face)
I warn you of this, Mother, that unless this tie goes round my neck we don't go out
to dinner tonight, and if I don't go out to dinner tonight I never go to the office
again, and if I don't go to the office again you and I starve, and our children will
be thrown into the streets.
(The CHILDREN blanch as they grasp the gravity of the situation)

MRS. DARLING
Let me try, father dear.

(In a terrible silence their progeny cluster round them. Will she succeed?
Their fate depends on it. She fails - no, she succeeds. In another moment
they are wildly gay, romping around the room on each other's shoulders.
Father is even a better horse than mother. He sings “We’re all right for
another day!” as MICHAEL rides on his back. MICHAEL is dropped
upon his bed, WENDY retires to prepare for hers, JOHN runs from NANA,
who has reappeared with the bath towel)

JOHN
(Rebellious)
I won’t take a bath! Nana, I won’t take a bath!
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MR. DARLING
(In the grand manner)
Go and be bathed at once, sir.
(With bent head JOHN follows NANA into the bathroom. On the way,
NANA collides with his trousers - the first pair he has ever had with braid
on them)
Oh, Mother, look here! Hair all over my trousers!!
(To NANA)
Clumsy! Clumsy!
(NANA goes, a drooping figure)

MRS. DARLING
I’ll brush you off, Father dear.

MR. DARLING
Thank you. You know, Mother, sometimes I think it’s a mistake to have a dog for
a nurse.

MRS. DARLING
Why George, Nana is a treasure.

MR. DARLING
No doubt; but at times I have an uneasy feeling that she looks upon the children as
her puppies.

MRS. DARLING
George, we must keep Nana. I will tell you why.
(Her seriousness impresses him)
My dear, when I came into this room tonight I saw a face at the window.

MR. DARLING
(Incredulous)
A face at the window, two floors up?

MRS. DARLING
It was the face of a little boy; he was trying to get in.

MR. DARLING
Impossible.

MRS. DARLING
It’s not the first time I’ve seen that boy.
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MR. DARLING
(Beginning to think that this may be a man’s job)
O-ho?

MRS. DARLING
(Making sure that MICHAEL does not hear)
The first time was a week ago - I remember, because it was Nana’s night off. I
was sitting there by the fire, and suddenly I felt a daught, as though the window
were open. I looked round and I saw that boy - in the room. I screamed. Just then,
Nana came back and sprang at him at once. The boy leapt for the window. Nana
closed it quickly, but it was too late to catch him.

MR. DARLING
(Who knows he would not have been too late)
I thought so!

MRS. DARLING
But wait. The boy escaped, but his shadow hadn’t time to get out. I hid it! I rolled
it up and here it is!
(She produces it from a drawer. THEY unroll and examine the flimsy thing,
which is not more material than a puff of smoke, and if let go would
probably float into the ceiling without discolouring it. Yet it has human
shape. As THEY nod their heads over it they present the most satisfying
picture on earth, two happy parents conspiring cosily by the fire for the
good of their children)

MR. DARLING
A-ha! Well, I don’t think it’s anyone we know, though he does look like a
scoundrel!

MRS. DARLING
You know, I think he comes back trying to get his shadow.

MR. DARLING
(Meaning that the miscreant has now a father to deal with)
I dare say.
(The shadow is rolled up and replaced in the drawer)

MRS. DARLING
But wait - I haven’t told you all. The boy was not quite alone. He was
accompanied by - I don’t know how to describe it - by a ball of light no bigger
than my fist, that darted about the room like a living thing!
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MR. DARLING
(Though open-minded)
That is very unusual!

MRS. DARLING
(Sliding her hand into his)
George, what can all this mean?

MR. DARLING
(Ever ready)
What indeed!
(This intimate scene is broken by the return of NANA with a large spoon in
her mouth)

MRS. DARLING
Oh, what have we there, Nana? Oh - the medicine spoon, of course.

MICHAEL
(Promptly)
Won’t take it - oh no - boo-oo-oo!

MR. DARLING
(Recalling his youth)
Now then, Michael, be a man.

MICHAEL
Won’t, won’t!

MRS. DARLING
I’ll give you a lovely stick of candy to take after it.
(SHE leaves the room, though her husband calls after her)

MR. DARLING
Mother, don’t pamper him. Michael - Michael, when I was your age, I used to
take my medicine without a murmur. Used to say “Thank you, kind parents for
giving me medicine to make me well.”
(WENDY hears this and believes)
And as an example to you, Michael, I would take my medicine now - only I’ve
lost the bottle.
WENDY
(Always glad to be of service)
I know where it is, Father. I’ll bring it!
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(SHE is gone before HE can stop her. HE turns for help to JOHN, who has
come from the bathroom drying his hair)

MR. DARLING
Wendy! John! It’s that horrid stuff. The sticky sweet kind.

JOHN
(Who is perhaps still playing at parents)
It will soon be over, Father.

(A spasm of ill-will to JOHN cuts through MR. DARLING, and is gone.

WENDY returns panting)

WENDY
I’ve been as quick as I could.

MR. DARLING
(With a sarcasm that is completely thrown away on her)
Oh yes, you have been wonderfully quick!
(HE is now at the foot of MICHAEL’s bed; NANA is by its side, holding the
spoon insinuatingly in her mouth.)

WENDY
(Proudly, as she pours out MR. DARLING’s medicine)
Michael, you will see how Father takes it.

MR. DARLING
(Hedging)
Michael first.

MICHAEL
(Full of unworthy suspicions)
Father first.

MR. DARLING
It will make me sick, you know.

WENDY
(Disturbed)
I thought you took it quite easily, Father.

MR. DARLING
That’s not the point; the point is that there is much more in my glass than there is
in Michael’s spoon and it isn’t fair.
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JOHN
Come on, Father!

MR. DARLING
A little less noise there.

MICHAEL
(Coldly)
Father, I’m waiting.

MR. DARLING
You’re waiting! What about me - I’m waiting.

MICHAEL
Father’s a scare-dy cat.

MR. DARLING
Father’s not a scare-dy cat.
(They are now glaring at each other)

MICHAEL
Well, then, take it.

MR. DARLING
Well, then, you take it.

WENDY
(Butting in again)
Why not both take it at the same time?

MR. DARLING
(Haughtily)
Certainly. Ready, Michael? One - two - you know, Michael, I don’t think you’re
going to take yours after all!

MICHAEL
I am. I am.

WENDY
(As nothing has happened)
One - two - three.
(MICHAEL partakes, but MR. DARLING resorts to hanky panky)

JOHN
Father hasn’t taken his!
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(MICHAEL howls)

MR. DARLING
Shhh!

MICHAEL
Boo-oo-oo!

WENDY
(Inexpressibly pained)
Oh father!

MR. DARLING
(Who has been hiding the glass behind him)
What do you mean by “Oh Father”? Stop that row, Michael. I meant to take it but
I - missed it.
(NANA shakes her head sadly over him, and goes into the bathroom.
THEY are all looking as if they did not admire him, and nothing so dashes
a temperamental man)
Come on, to bed, the lot of you. Michael, John, Wendy.
(They steal to their beds as MRS. DARLING returns with the peppermint
stick)

MRS. DARLING
Well, is it all over?

MR. DARLING
Yes, Mother dear, it’s all over and quite satisfactory.

MICHAEL
Father didn’t -

MR. DARLING
Shhh!

MRS. DARLING
Father didn’t what?

MR. DARLING
(Uneasily)
Oh, nothing, nothing at all.
(NANA comes back. MR. DARLING stumbles over her)
Oh! Clumsy, clumsy - just look at my trousers, covered with hair again!
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WENDY
(On her knees by the kennel)
Father, she’s crying.

MR. DARLING
Go on! Coddle her! Nobody ever coddles me. I’m only the bread-winner. Why
should I be coddled? Why, why, why?

MRS. DARLING
George, not so loud; the servants will hear you.
(There is only one maid, absurdly small too, but they have got into the way
of calling her the servants.)

MR. DARLING
(Defiant)
Let the whole world know!
(The desperate man, who has not been in fresh air for days, has now lost
all self-control)
I refuse to allow that dog to lord it in my nursery for one hour longer.

ALL
Oh, Father!
(NANA supplicates him)

MR. DARLING
In vain, in vain, your place is downstairs. Come on, Nana!

(NANA again retreats into the kennel downstage of WENDY’s bed and the
CHILDREN add their prayers to hers)

CHILDREN
Oh, Father! Please, Father! (etc.)

MRS. DARLING
(Who knows how contrite he will be for this presently)
Remember what I told you - about that boy.

MR. DARLING
Am I master in this house or is she?
(To NANA, fiercely)
Come on, Nana!
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(NANA barks, snaps at him, and retreats into the doghouse)

Come, Nana!
(NANA shakes her head)
Good Nana!
(SHE backs away)
Nice Nana.
(SHE waves him away with her paw)
Dear Nana.
(SHE backs away again)
Pretty Nana.
(Yielding to his blandishments, NANA ventures out of the doghouse. MR.
DARLING grabs NANA by the collar)
Gotcha!

MRS. DARLING
Be brave, my dears.

WENDY
He’s chaining Nana up!

(This unfortunately is what he is doing, though we cannot see him. Let us

hope that he then reuters to his study, looks up the word “temper” in his
Thesaurus, and under the influence of those benign pages becomes a
better man. In the meantime the CHILDREN have been put to bed in
unwonted silence, and MRS. DARLING lights the night-lights over the
beds)

JOHN
(As the barking below goes on)
She’s awfully unhappy.

WENDY
That’s not her unhappy bark. That’s her bark when she smells danger.

MRS. DARLING
(Remembering that boy)
Danger! Wendy? Are you sure?

WENDY
(The one of the family, for there is one in every family, who can be trusted
to know or not to know)
Yes, Mother.
(Her mother looks this way and that for the window)
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Is everything all right?

MRS. DARLING
It’s all quiet and still.

#5 - Tender Shepherd . . . ……. . .

I wish I weren’t going out to dinner tonight.

MICHAEL
Can anything harm us, Mother, after the night-lights are lit?

MRS. DARLING
Nothing, precious. They are the eyes a mother leaves behind to guard her
children.
(Nevertheless we may be sure she means to tell LIZA, the little maid, to
look in on them frequently till she comes home)
Now sing your goodnight song, and into your beds.
(The CHILDREN line up in a row)

MRS. DARLING
TENDER SHEPHERD, TENDER SHEPHERD
LET ME HELP YOU COUNT YOUR SHEEP.
ONE IN THE MEADOW,
TWO IN THE GARDEN,
THREE IN THE NURSERY FAST ASLEEP
(The following is sung as a round [see Vocal Score for details] as the CHILDREN
climb into their beds)
CHILDREN
TENDER SHEPHERD, TENDER SHEPHERD
WATCHES OVER ALL HIS SHEEP
ONE, SAY YOUR PRAYERS AND
TWO, CLOSE YOUR EYES AND
THREE SAFE AND HAPPILY FALL ASLEEP
MRS. DARLING
All asleep.
(With a last look round)
Dear night-lights that protect my sleeping children, burn clear and steadfast
tonight.
(The nursery darkens and SHE is gone, intentionally leaving the door ajar.
Something uncanny is going to happen, we expect, for a quiver has passed
through the room, just sufficient to touch the night-lights. NANA barks
offstage.
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#6 - Peter’s Entrance . . . ……. . .

TINKER BELL flashes around outside the shutters and finally finds an
entrance at the bottom center. She flies around the nursery, looks at the
clock, then tweaks WENDY on the shoulder, causing her to stir in her
sleep. Then she flies into the jug on the mantel, causing it to light up and
rock back and forth. The windows open and PETER PAN flies into the
room, landing down center and searching for TINKER BELL. [In so far as
he is dressed at all it is in autumn leaves and cobwebs.] The huge windows
close)

PETER
(In a whisper)
Tinker Bell! Tink! Tink!

(NANA barks offstage [Bar 32], and in a fright PETER hides behind the
drapes UR)
[NB - It is at this point that PETER’s flying wire is detached]

#7 - Tink Finds the Shadow . . . ……. .

(PETER comes from behind drapes)

Tinker Bell! Tink! Where are you?
(Light appears in the jug on the mantel. PETER runs to the fireplace)
There you are! Tink, do come out of that jug.
(TINK answers)
Tink, do you now where they put it?
(TINK flashes once in the jug and darts to the dresser, R)
Over there?
(Examines drawers of dressers)
But which drawer?
(TINK replies, and jumps to the top drawer)
Ah!
(PETER pulls drawers open, seizes his shadow and closes the drawer
unknowingly with TINKER BELL inside of it)
Oh, my shadow, I’ll stick you on with soap.
(Picks up large bar of soap from the dresser and goes DC. HE soaps the
shadow’s head and tries to paste it to his forehead - it falls. HE then soaps
his backside and lies on it and wiggles. This failing, HE motions the prone
shadow to return - this fails and he loses hope and sits sobbing audibly)
Oh, my shadow! What’s the matter with you?
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(This wakens WENDY, who sits up, and is pleasantly interested to see a
stranger)

WENDY
(Courteously)
Boy, why are you crying?
(He jumps up, and crossing to the foot of the bed bows to her in the fairy
way. WENDY, impressed, bows to him from the bed.)

PETER
What’s your name?

WENDY
(Well satisfied)
Wendy Moira Angela Darling. What’s your name?

PETER
Peter Pan.

WENDY
Is that all?

PETER
(Ashamed)
Yes.

WENDY
(Kindly)
I’m so sorry.

PETER
(Bravely, stifling shame)
It doesn’t matter.

WENDY
Where do you live?

PETER
Second to the right and straight on till morning.

WENDY
What a funny address!

PETER
No, it isn’t.
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WENDY
I mean, is that what they put on your letters?

PETER
Don’t get any letters.

WENDY
But your mother gets letters?

PETER
Don’t have a mother.

WENDY
Oh, Peter!
(She leaps out of bed to put her arms round him, but he draws back; he
does not know why but he knows he must draw back)

PETER
You mustn’t touch me.

WENDY
Why?

PETER
No one must ever touch me.

WENDY
Why not?

PETER
I don’t know.

WENDY
No wonder you were crying.

PETER
I wasn’t crying about that - but I can’t get my shadow to stick on.

WENDY
It has come off? How awful. Why -
(Looking at the spot where he had lain)
Peter, you’ve been trying to stick it on with soap.

PETER
(Snappily)
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(PETER)
Well then?

WENDY
It must be sewn on.

PETER
What is “sewn”?

WENDY
You’re dreadfully ignorant.

PETER
No, I’m not.

WENDY
I shall [have to] sew it on for you, my little man.

(WENDY goes to the dresser for the sewing box)

PETER
Thank you.

WENDY
I daresay it will hurt a little.

PETER
(A recent remark of hers rankling)
I never cry.
(She seems to attach the shadow)

WENDY
There.

PETER
(He tests the combination)
It isn’t quite itself yet.

WENDY
Perhaps I should have ironed it.

(The SHADOW awakes. The footlights throw the SHADOW against the
shutters and PETER views it with joy)

#8 - I Gotta Crow . . ……. .

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PETER
Wendy, look!! My shadow! My very own shadow!

WENDY
But, it’s only a shadow!

PETER
Yes, but it’s all mine. Oh, I’m clever! Oh, the cleverness of me!

WENDY
Of course, I did nothing. You’re conceited.

PETER
CONCEITED? NOT ME!
IT’S JUST THAT I AM WHAT I AM,
AND I’M ME!
WHEN I LOOK AT MYSELF
AND I SEE IN MYSELF
ALL THE WONDERFUL THINGS THAT I SEE,
IF I’M PLEASED WITH MYSELF
I HAVE EVERY GOOD REASON TO BE!

I GOTTA CROW!
I’M JUST THE CLEVEREST FELLOW ‘TWAS EVER
MY FORTUNE TO KNOW
I TAUGHT A TRICK
TO MY SHADOW TO STICK
TO THE TIP OF MY TOE -
I GOTTA CROW!

I GOTTA BRAG!
I THINK IT’S SWEET I HAVE FINGERS AND FEET I
CAN WIGGLE AND WAG!
I CAN CLIMB TREES
AND PLAY TAG WITH THE BREEZE
IN THE MEADOWS BELOW -
I GOTTA CROW!

IF I WERE A VERY
ORDINARY
EVERYDAY THING,
I’D NEVER BE HEARD,
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(PETER)
COCK-A-DOODLIN’ ‘ROUND LIKE A BIRD,
SO-

NATURALLY
WHEN I DISCOVER THE CLEVERNESS OF A
REMARKABLE ME
HOW CAN I HIDE IT
WHEN DEEP DOWN INSIDE IT
JUST TICKLES ME SO
THAT I GOTTA LET GO
AND CROW!

(PETER lies on the floor and the shadow of his right hand becomes a bird,
the fingers of his left hand a tasty meal. After eating the fingers and
thumb, the bird dispatches the stump by pushing it down out of sight. Then
the bird looks to the right and confronts, face to face, another bird. Both
gasp with surprise, one makes affectionate overtures to the other, ending
in a pecking fight)

(PETER)
I’M REALLY A RARE THING,
SUCH A FAIR THING,
I CAN’T KEEP STILL,
I’M BURSTING WITH PRIDE,
AND I JUST COULDN’T KEEP IT INSIDE,
IF I TRIED,
SO-

NATURALLY
WHEN I DISCOVER THE CLEVERNESS OF A
REMARKABLE ME,
HOW CAN I HIDE IT
WHEN DEEP DOWN INSIDE IT
JUST TICKLES ME SO
THAT I GOTTA LET GO
AND CROW!
[After applause the PLAYOUT begins [Bar 276], which fades out under
the following dialogue]

WENDY
Oh, Peter, you are so clever! Shall I give you a kiss?
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PETER
Thank you.

(He holds out his hand)

WENDY
(Aghast)
Don’t you know what a kiss is?

PETER
I shall know when you give it to me.
(Not to hurt his feelings she gives him her thimble)
Now shall I give you a kiss?

WENDY
(Primly)
If you please.
(HE pulls an acorn button off his person and bestows it on her. She is
shocked but considerate)
A button! Why, Peter, I will wear it on this chain round my neck. Peter, how old
are you?

PETER
(Blithely)
I don’t know. I ran away from home the day I was born.

WENDY
Ran away. Why?

PETER
Because I heard Father and Mother talking of what I was to be when I became a
man. I want always to be a little boy and to have fun; so I ran away and I’ve lived
a long time among the fairies.
WENDY
(With great eyes)
Peter! You really know fairies?!
PETER
(Surprised that this should be a recommendation)
Yes, but they are nearly all dead now.

WENDY
Why?

PETER
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You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke
into a thousand pieces - and they all went skipping about - and that was the
beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh
becomes a fairy. So there ought to be a fairy for every boy and girl.
WENDY
(Breathlessly)
Ought to be? Isn’t there?
PETER
Oh, no. Children know such a lot now. Soon they don’t believe, and every time a
child says “I don’t believe in fairies” there is a fairy somewhere that falls down
dead.

WENDY
Poor things!

PETER
(To whom this statement recalls a forgotten friend)
I can’t think where she has gone to. Tinker Bell, Tink!

WENDY
(Thrilling)
Peter, you don’t mean to tell me that there is a real live fairy right here in this
room!

PETER
(Flitting about in search)
She came with me.

#9 - Locked in the Drawer . . ……. .

(The dresser drawer rattles furiously)

(With shameless glee)

Wendy, I believe I shut her up in that drawer!
(He releases TINK who darts about in a fury using language it is perhaps
as well we don’t understand)
Well, you needn’t say that.
(Listens)
Well, I’m very sorry.
(Listens)
Well, how could I know you were in that drawer?
(More rough language from TINK, who is now back in the jug)
Tink! This lady wishes you were her fairy.
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(The answer comes immediately)

WENDY
What does she say?

PETER
She’s not very polite. She says you’re a great ugly girl, and she’s mine.
(Back to TINK)
Tink! You know you can’t be my fairy because I am a gentleman and you’re a
lady.
[TINK replies in the rudest language yet]

WENDY
What did she say?

PETER
She said “You silly ass.” She’s quite a common girl, you know.
(NANA barks offstage - Peter ducks behind stool)

WENDY
It’s all right - she’s chained up. Peter, where do you live?

PETER
[Rushing to the window, which flies open at his gesture]
Way out there.

WENDY
How do you find your way home?

#10 - Neverland . . ……. .

PETER
You just follow all the golden arrows.

WENDY
Where do they lead you?

PETER
It’s a secret place.

WENDY
Please tell me!

PETER
Would you believe me if I told you?
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WENDY
I promise.

PETER
For sure?

WENDY
For sure!

PETER
(Sings)

I HAVE A PLACE WHERE DREAMS ARE BORN

AND TIME IS NEVER PLANNED;
IT’S NOT ON ANY CHART,
YOU MUST FIND IT WITH YOUR HEART -
NEVER NEVER LAND.

IT MIGHT BE MILES BEYOND THE MOON

OR RIGHT THERE WHERE YOU STAND.
JUST KEEP AN OPEN MIND
AND THEN SUDDENLY YOU’LL FIND
NEVER NEVER LAND.

YOU’LL HAVE A TREASURE IF YOU STAY THERE,

MORE PRECIOUS FAR THAN GOLD,
FOR ONCE YOU HAVE FOUND YOUR WAY THERE
YOU CAN NEVER, NEVER GROW OLD

AND THAT’S MY HOME WHERE DREAMS ARE BORN

AND TIME IS NEVER PLANNED
JUST THINK OF LOVELY THINGS
AND YOUR HEART WILL FLY ON WINGS
FOREVER
IN NEVER NEVER LAND.
(After applause, the music continues [Bar 43])

WENDY
What does it look like Peter?

PETER
It’s an island, Wendy.
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WENDY
A large one?

PETER
No, quite small - and nicely crammed - with hardly any space between one
adventure and another. And it’s summer and winter and spring and fall all at the
same time on different parts of the island.

WENDY
I wish I could see it.

PETER
You can. Just close your eyes tight. Now, what do you see?

WENDY
I see a pool of lovely, pale colors -

PETER
Squeeze them tighter-

WENDY
Yes!

PETER
And the pool will take on different shapes - and the colors become brighter.

WENDY
Yes!

PETER
So bright that in a moment they’ll go on fire - and in that moment - just before
they do -

WENDY
I see it! I see it!

PETER
That’s it, Wendy! That’s my island!
(Sings)
YOU’LL HAVE A TREASURE IF YOU STAY THERE,
MORE PRECIOUS FAR THAN GOLD,
FOR ONCE YOU HAVE FOUND YOUR WAY THERE
YOU CAN NEVER, NEVER GROW OLD.
AND THAT’S MY HOME WHERE DREAMS ARE BORN
AND TIME IS NEVER PLANNED
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(PETER)
JUST THINK OF LOVELY THINGS
AND YOUR HEART WILL FLY ON WINGS
FOREVER
IN NEVER NEVER LAND!

WENDY
Oh, it sounds lovely - Neverland! Who else lives there, Peter?

PETER
The Lost Boys.

WENDY
Who are they?

PETER
They are the children who fall out of their prams when the nurse is looking the
other way. If they aren’t claimed in seven days they’re sent far away to Never
Land. I’m Captain.

WENDY
What fun it must be.

PETER
(Craftily)
Yes, but we’re rather lonely. You see, Wendy, we have no female companionship.

WENDY
Are none of the others girls?

PETER
Oh, no. Girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.

WENDY
Peter, it is perfectly lovely the way you talk about girls. You may give me a kiss.

PETER
(Cynically)
I thought you would want it back.
(He offers her the thimble)

WENDY
(Artfully)
No, Peter, I didn’t mean a kiss…I meant - a thimble.
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PETER
(Only half placated)
What is that?

WENDY
It’s like this.
(She leans forward to give a demonstration, but something prevents the
meeting of their faces. Before he can even draw near, WENDY screams)
Ow!

PETER
What is it?

WENDY
It was exactly as if someone were pulling my hair!

PETER
That’s Tink. I never knew her to be so naughty before.
(TINK speaks. She is in the jug again)

WENDY
What did she say?

PETER
She says she will do that every time I give you a thimble.

WENDY
But why?

PETER
(Equally nonplussed)
Why, Tink?
(He has to translate the answer)
She said “You silly ass” again.

WENDY
She is very impertinent.
(They are sitting on the floor now)
Peter, why did you come to our nursery window?

PETER
To hear the stories. None of us knows any stories.

WENDY
How perfectly awful!
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PETER
Oh, Wendy, your mother was telling you such a lovely story.

WENDY
Oh? Which story was it?

PETER
It was about the Prince, and he couldn’t find the lady who wore the glass slipper.

WENDY
Oh, that’s Cinderella. Peter, he found her and they lived happily ever after.

PETER
I’m glad!
(They have worked their way along the floor close to each other, but he
now jumps up.)

WENDY
Where are you going?

PETER
(Already on his way to the window)
To tell the other boys.

WENDY
Don’t go, Peter. I know lots of stories.
(She ought not to have said this)

PETER
(Turning)
Do you?

WENDY
Oh Peter, the stories I could tell the boys!

PETER
(Gleaming)
Come on! We’ll fly!

WENDY
Fly? You can fly!
(How he would like to rip those stories out of her - he is dangerous now.)

PETER
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Wendy, come with me - how we should all respect you. You could tuck us in at
night and make pockets for us. None of us has any pockets.

WENDY
It’s awfully fascinating! Would you teach John and Michael to fly too?

PETER
(Indifferently)
If you like.

WENDY
(Playing rum-tum on JOHN)
John, Michael, wake up - there’s a boy here who is going to teach us to fly.

MICHAEL
There is?

JOHN
Then I’ll get up at once.
(NANA barks offstage)

#12 - Liza’s Entrance . . . ……. .

Out with the lights! Someone’s coming! Quick! Hide!

(MICHAEL runs up the steps and turns off the lights - ALL hide)
[NB - At this point flying wires are attached to PETER and the
CHILDREN]
(LIZA enters at the top of the staris holding NANA)

LIZA
There, you see! They are perfectly safe and sound asleep in bed.
(NANA barks)
Now no more! Come along, you naughty dog!
(THEY exit, NANA barking loudly all the while)

#13 - I’m Flying . . . ……. .

(PETER emerges from his hiding place)

PETER
(Listening)
All clear!

(The CHILDREN reappear)

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MICHAEL
Come on!

JOHN

Can you really fly?

PETER
I’ll teach you.

WENDY
How lovely to fly!

PETER
I’ll teach you how to jump on the wind’s back and away we’ll go!

WENDY
Go!

PETER
Wendy, when you’re sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with
me, saying funny things to the stars.

JOHN
How do you do it?

PETER
You just think lovely wonderful thoughts -
(HE starts up in the air)
- and up you go!

WENDY
Oh, how sweet!

PETER
(Embracing himself with sheer pleasure)
I’m sweet! I’m sweet!
(Sings)
I’M FLYING

WENDY
FLYING!

JOHN
FLYING!
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MICHAEL
FLYING!

PETER
LOOK AT ME,
WAY UP HIGH,
SUDDENLY HERE AM I,
I’M FLYING!
I’M FLYING!

WENDY
FLYING!

JOHN
FLYING!

MICHAEL
FLYING!

PETER
I CAN SOAR,
I CAN WEAVE,
AND WHAT’S MORE,
I’M NOT EVEN TRYING!

HIGH UP AND AS LIGHT

AS I CAN BE,
I MUST BE A SIGHT
LOVELY TO SEE!

CHILDREN
(Ad lib)
Oh, yes, Peter, you are! (etc.)

PETER
I’M FLYING

WENDY
FLYING!

JOHN
FLYING!
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MICHAEL
FLYING!

PETER
NOTHING WILL
STOP ME NOW,
HIGHER STILL,
LOOK AT HOW
I CAN ZOOM AROUND
WAY UP OFF THE GROUND,
I’M FLYING

I FLY
AND I’M ALL
OVER THE PLACE
YOU TRY
AND YOU’LL FALL
FLAT ON YOUR FACE!
(They try, and they do)
PETER
I’M FLYING

WENDY
FLYING!

JOHN
FLYING!

MICHAEL
FLYING!

PETER
OVER BED,
OVER CHAIR,
DUCK YOUR HEAD,
CLEAR THE AIR,
OH, WHAT LOVELY FUN!
WATCH ME, EVERYONE,
TAKE A LOOK AT ME AND SEE
HOW EASILY IT’S DONE
I’M FLYING!
(HE flies back down to earth)
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(PETER)
You like it?

CHILDREN
(Ad lib)
Oh, yes, Peter, yes! (etc.)

PETER
Want to learn how?

CHILDREN
(Ad lib)
Oh, teach us, Peter, please teach us! (etc.)

PETER
First I must blow the fairy dust on you.
(He blows fairy dust on them in time to harp cues [Bar 130])
(He laughs, sings)
NOW THINK LOVELY THOUGHTS

CHILDREN
THINK LOVELY THOUGHTS
[With each lovely thought, they try a little hop to launch themselves into
the air - to no avail]

JOHN
Fishing!

WENDY
Hopscotch!

MICHAEL
Candy!

WENDY
Picnics!

JOHN
Summer!

MICHAEL
Candy!

JOHN
Sailing!
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WENDY
Flowers!

MICHAEL
Candy!

PETER
Lovelier thoughts, Michael!

MICHAEL
Christmas!

PETER
(As MICHAEL rises into the air)
That’s it!
(All three CHILDREN fly about the room)
Come on! I’ll take you to Neverland!

WENDY
Neverland! Oh, it would be lovely!

PETER
There are Pirates and Brave Ones!

JOHN
Pirates!

MICHAEL
Brave Ones!
(THEY rise up into the air at the very thought)

WENDY
Let’s go at once!

PETER
Get ready!
(Sings)
YOU READY?

WENDY
READY!

JOHN
READY!
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MICHAEL
READY!

PETER
DON’T FORGET,
DON’T BE SLOW,
READY, SET,
HERE WE GO!
WENDY, MICHAEL, JOHN!
TINKER BELL, COME ON!
HURRY UP AND FOLLOW ME
FOR I WILL SOON BE GONE,
I’M FLYING!
(PETER flies out the window followed by WENDY and JOHN)

MICHAEL
Wait for me! Wait for me!
(HE rises up into the air and is almost out the window when LIZA enters
in alarm)

LIZA
What are you doing?

MICHAEL
I’m flying!
(HE flies back down to the ground and throws fairy dust on LIZA)
Come on, Liza, we’re going to Neverland!
(MICHAEL flies out the window. LIZA whirls. The nursery set disappears,
exposing the night sky.)

ACT ONE
Scene 2

THE FLIGHT TO NEVERLAND

(The Aerial Ballet ends the act [Bar 239])

END OF ACT ONE

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ACT TWO

#14 - Entr’acte . . . …

Scene 1

NEVERLAND

#15 - Opening Act Two . . ..

AT RISE: The stage is dark, behind cloud scrim and flamingo scrim traveller.
Gradually the sky lights up and the trees begin flowering in silhouette [Bar 5].

The cloud scrim flies out. More light.

The flamingo traveller opens slowly and lights come up to bright sunlight. We are
in a forest clearing: four trees range in front of the Neverland backdrop while an
incline leads off UL and off. DL there is a large pink toadstool.

The LION enters from UR [Bar 17], having just wakened, scratches himself
thoroughly, looks over the audience holding his pince-nez. He exits up ramp.

From DL the KANGAROO hops on [Bar 25], goes C, faces front, takes large
powder puff from pocket-book pouch, powders nose, replaces puff in pouch and
exits L in 2.

OSTRICH rises from praying position and comes DC [Bar 31], squats and preens
herself. LOST BOYS advance and try to catch her.

SLIGHTLY
Now!
(OSTRICH escapes L in 2, but not before losing a large tail feather to one
of the BOYS.)
Did you catch her?

1ST TWIN
(Showing feather)
No, but look.

2ND TWIN
Has Peter come back, Slightly?

SLIGHTLY
No, twin.

CURLEY
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I wish Peter would come back.

1ST & 2ND TWIN

So do we.

TOOTLES
I’m always afraid of the pirates and Brave Ones when Peter’s not here to protect
us.

NIBS
I wonder what’s keeping him so long.

SLIGHTLY
Maybe he’s waiting to hear the end of “Cinderella.”

TOOTLES
“Cinderella!”

CURLEY
Not knowing anything about my own mother, I am fond of thinking she is just
like Cinderella.

SLIGHTLY
My mother was fonder of me than your mothers were of you.

1ST TWIN
No, she wasn’t!

SLIGHTLY
Yes, she was. Peter had to make up names for you, but my mother had wrote my
name on the clothes I was lost in. “Slightly Soiled” - that’s my name.

(THEY fall upon him pugnaciously; not that they are really worrying
about their mothers, who are now as important to them as a piece of
string, but because any excuse is good enough for a shindy. Not for long is
he belabored, for a sound is heard that sends them scurrying to their
holes)

#16 - Pirate March . . ……. .

PIRATES
(Offstage - unaccompanied)
WE’RE BLOODY BUCCANEERS
(Grunt)
AND EACH A MURDEROUS CROOK!
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(Grunt)
WE MASSACRE BRAVE ONES,
KILL LITTLE BOYS
AND CATER TO CAPTAIN HOOK!

BOYS

Pirates!
(THEY hide. PIRATES neter, carrying HOOK on a litter)

PIRATES
YO-HO!

(Grunt)
YO-HO! YO-HO! YO-HO!

(Grunt)
(Grunt)
WE’RE BLOODY BUCCANEERS
(Grunt)
AND EACH A MURDEROUS CROOK!
(Grunt)
WE MASSACRE BRAVE ONES,
KILL LITTLE BOYS
AND CATER TO CAPTAIN HOOK!
YO-HO! YO-HO!
THE TERRIBLE CAPTAIN HOOK!

(Cruelest jewel in that dark setting is HOOK himself, cadaverous and

blackavised, his hair dressed in long curls which look like black candles
about to melt, his eyes blue as the forget-me-not and of a profound
insensibility, save when he claws, at which time a red spot appears in
them. He has an iron hook instead of a right hand, and it is with this he
claws. He is never more sinister than when he is most polite, and the
elegance of his diction, the distinction of his demeanour, show him one of
a different class from his crew, a solitary among uncultured companions.
This courtliness impresses even his victims on the high seas, who note that
he always says ‘Sorry’ when prodding them along the plank. A man of
indomitable courage, the only thing at which he flinches is the sight of his
own blood, which is thick and of an unusual colour. At his public school
they said of him that he ‘bled yellow’.
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In dress he apes the dandiacal associated with Charles II, having heard it
said in an earlier period of his career that he bore a strange resemblance
to the ill-fated Stuarts. A holder of his own contrivance is in his mouth
enabling him to smoke two cigars at once. Those, however, who have seen
him in the flesh, which is an inadequate term for his earthly tenement,
agree that the grimmest part of him is his iron claw.)

(As The Pirates carry the Litter DS they slip and drop it, and HOOK falls
to the ground)

HOOK

(Kicking 1st PIRATE)

Clumsy!
(Clawing 2nd PIRATE, who screams)
Butterfingers!
(TOOTLES runs from his tree and is seen for a moment, and NOODLER’s
pistol is at once up-raised. HOOK twists his hook in him)

NOODLER
Oow! No, Captain, no!

HOOK
Drop that pistol first!

NOODLER
It was one of those boys you hate. I could have shot him dead!

HOOK
Aye, and the first crack would bring Tiger Lily’s warriors upon us!
(The PIRATES cringe and shake at the mention of the Brave Ones)
D’you want to lose your scalps?

SMEE
(Wriggling his cutlass pleasantly)
That is true. Shall I after him, Captain, and tickle him with Johnny Corkscrew?
Johnny’s a silent fellow!

HOOK
Not now, Smee!
(HE slaps SMEE’s bared head)
He’s only one - and I want to mischief all the seven. They must live ‘round here
somewhere. Scatter and look for them.
 PETER PAN - 39 -

(The BOATSWAIN whistles his instructions, and the MEN disperse on

their frightful errand. With none to hear save SMEE, HOOK becomes
confidential)
(HOOK)
Most of all I want their captain, Peter Pan. ‘Twas he cut off me arm. Oh, I have
waited long to shake hands with him with this.
(Luxuriating)
Oh, I’ll tear him!

SMEE
(Always ready for a chat)
Yet I have oft heard you say your hook was worth a score of hands - for combing
the hair, and other homely uses.

HOOK
Aye, Smee, if I were a mother, I would pray that me children be born with this…
(Indicating the hook)
…instead of that.
(His left arm creeps nervously behind him. He has a galling
remembrance.)
But Pan flung me hand to a crocodile that happened to be passing by.

SMEE
I have often noticed your strange dread of crocodiles.

HOOK
(Pettishly)
Not of crocodiles, but of that one crocodile.
(He lays bare a lacerated heart)
He liked me hand so much, that he has followed me ever since -
(as if reciting poetry)
- from land to land, from sea to sea, he follows the ship, licking his lips for the
rest of me.

SMEE
(Looking for the bright side)
In a way it is a sort of compliment.
(SMEE removes his hat)

HOOK
Well, I want no such compliments!
(Slaps SMEE’s pate)
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I want Peter Pan, who first gave the brute his taste for me. Smee, that crocodile
would have got me long ere this if he could have crept upon me unawares. But by
some lucky chance he swallowed a clock -

SMEE
A clock!

HOOK
And it goes on - tick, tock, tick - within him; and so, before he can reach me I
hear the tick and bolt.
(He emits a hollow rumble)
Once I heard it strike six inside of him.

SMEE
(Somberly)
Some day the clock will run down, and then he’ll get you.

HOOK
(A broken man)
Ay, that is the fear that haunts me.
(Suddenly he rises)
Oh!

SMEE
What’s the matter, Captain?

HOOK
Smee, this seat’s hot. Oh! It’s very hot!
(SMEE turns on smoke unit)
Odds, bobs, hammer and tongs, I’m burning!
(Indicating the mushroom)
Smee - help me!
(He has been sitting, he thinks, on one of the island mushrooms, which are
of enormous size. But this is a hand-painted one placed here in times of
danger to conceal a chimney. They remove it, and tell-tale smoke issues;
also, alas, the sound of children’s voices)
A chimney! Peter and the boys must be living underground!
(HE laughs)

SMEE
(As he turns off the smoke unit)
Listen!
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HOOK
They say that Peter Pan’s away from home.
(HE replaces the mushroom. His brain works torturously)
Call back the band!
(SMEE whistles on bosun’s whistle. PIRATES return)
I must think! Inspire me! Play, you dogs!

SMEE
What tempo, Captain?

HOOK
(Thinks)
Tempo, tempo, tempo - a tango!

SMEE
A tango!

#17 - Hook’s Tango . . ……. .

(HOOK laughs as he circles chimney)

(SMEE)
Unrip your plan, Captain!

HOOK
[Spoken in time]
To cook a cake quite large, and fill each layer in between
With icing mixed with poison, ‘til it turns a tempting green.
We’ll place it near the house just where the boys are sure to come,
And being greedy they won’t care to question such a plum.
[Sung]
THE BOYS WHO HAVE NO MOTHER SWEET,
NO ONE TO SHOW THEM THEIR MISTAKE,
WON’T KNOW IT’S DANGEROUS TO EAT
SO DAMP AND RICH A CAKE!
AND SO BEFORE THE WINKING OF AN EYE
THOSE BOYS WILL EAT THAT POISON CAKE
AND ONE BY ONE THEY’LL DIE!
OLE!

(PIRATES applaud)

PIRATES
Bravo! Bis! Encore! Encore! A marvelous plan! (etc.)
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(Ticking begins as PIRATES applaud HOOK’s song)

#18 - Crocodile Music . . ……. .

HOOK
Thank you, thank you, but that was nothing.
(Music resumes for encore)
Horrid little boys, their time has come.
(The sound of ticking is heard above the music)
The croc! The croc!

SMEE
How do you know?

HOOK
I hear him ticking. Protect me, Smee! Protect me! Oooo!
(HOOK faints into the arms of the two nearest PIRATES and is dragged
off R)

SMEE
(Following)
Don’t leave me, Captain! Don’t leave me!
(A huge CROCODILE, of one thought compact, passes across, ticking,
and oozes after them. The wood is now so silent that you may be sure it is
full of Brave Ones. The BOYS stick their heads out [from tree] and then
emerge)

SLIGHTLY
They’re gone.

2ND TWIN
(Almost losing confidence in himself)
I do wish Peter were here!

1ST TWIN
What’s that?

CURLEY
It’s so quiet!
(Four flaming arrows shoot right to left over them)

BOYS
Brave Ones!

#19 - Scurry Music . . . ……. .

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(Again they disappear)

#20 - Braves Dance . . . ……. .

(Brave Ones enter)

(TIGER LILY comes first. She is the belle of the Henny Penny tribe, whose
braves would all have her to wife, but she wards them off with a hatchet.
She puts her ear to the ground and listens, then beckons and the BRAVE
ONES are around her, carpeting the ground. Far away someone treads on
a dry leaf)

TIGER LILY
Ssshh! Too much noice. Listen to Tiger Lily - when we’re on War Path -
Sssshhhh!

(BRAVES DANCE)

(BRAVE ONES have exited at the end of the dance. TOOTLES emerges
from hiding)

TOOTLES
They’re gone!

#21 - The Wendy Bird . . ……. .

(BRAVE ONES re-enter and grab TOOTLES. The other LOST BOYS grab
him from other side - a tug of war. Suddenly CURLEY looks up)

CURLEY
Look! A bird!
(All look up, stopping tug of war)

ALL
A bird!

WENDY
(From off - voice amplified)
Poor Wendy! Poor Wendy!

SLIGHTLY
It’s a Wendy Bird!

NIBS
How white it is!
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TIGER LILY
The bird must be an omen.

1ST BRAVE
A good or bad omen?

TIGER LILY
(Shrugs)
There’s a famous Brave Ones proverb: when in doubt - run!
(THEY do)

CURLEY
Here, boys! Let’s shoot the Wendy!

SLIGHTLY
Aye - shoot it quick! Bows and arrows!
(BOYS scurry for weapons)

CURLEY
Out of the way! I’ll shoot it! I’ll shoot it!
(CURLEY shoots and the BOYS cheer. WENDY flies in with an arrow in
her heart. THEY put her down)
I’ve killed it! Peter will be so pleased with me!
(PETER’s crow is heard off)

BOYS
It’s Peter!

2ND TWIN
Let’s surprise him!

#22 - Peter’s March . . . ……. .

THEY line up in front of WENDY as PETER and procession enter. PETER

rides pick-a-back on the LION, the OSTRICH carries a Peter Pan flag, the
KANGAROO precedes them throwing confetti. JOHN, in silk hat,
MICHAEL, with teddy bear, follow them on)

PETER
Greetings, boys! I’m back! And I have a great surprise.

SLIGHTLY
So have we!
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CURLEY
We killed a big white bird.

ALL
And look!
(THEY stand aside. PETER sees WENDY)

PETER
Wendy! With an arrow in her heart! This isn’t a bird - it’s a lady!

BOYS
(Dismayed)
A lady!

PETER
I was bringing her here to be our mother - and you have killed her. Whose arrow?

CURLEY
Mine, Peter.

PETER
(Raises arrow like a dagger)
Oh dastard hand!
(WENDY’s arm comes up and grasps PETER’s free arm)
I cannot strike. Something stops me.

NIBS
Look at her arm.

PETER
(Investigating)
She lives!
(BOYS cheer)
See - the arrow struck against this. It’s a kiss I gave her.

TOOTLES
I remember kisses. Let me see - aye, that’s a kiss.

PETER
Are you asleep, Wendy?
(WENDY sits up and nods, lies down again. PETER gets pillow from
KANGAROO for her head)
(To KANGAROO)
Thank you.
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(To WENDY)
Don’t you want to get up and play?
(WENDY shakes her head, turns over on side - settling comfortably and
happily)

TOOTLES
What shall we do with Wendy?

SLIGHTLY
Let’s carry her down into the house.

PETER
No, no! You mustn’t touch her. That wouldn’t be sufficiently respectful.
(BOYS jump back)
I know - we’ll build a house around her!

BOYS
A house!

PETER
I have a plan -
(KANGAROO, LION and OSTRICH exit UR)

#23 - Wendy . . . ……. .

(PETER)
WE’LL NEED LOTS OF WOOD,
NEED LOTS OF LEAVES,
NEED LOTS OF PAINT,
BUT HUSH, HUSH, HUSH, HUSH, HUSH!

LET’S BE QUIET AS A MOUSE

AND BUILD A LOVELY LITTLE HOUSE FOR WENDY
ALL FOR WENDY - SHE’S COME TO STAY.

BOYS
(Loudly)
AND BE OUR MOTHER!

PETER
Shhhh!

BOYS
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(Quietly)
AT LAST WE HAVE A MOTHER!

PETER
“HOME SWEET HOME” UPON THE WALL,
A WELCOME MAT DOWN IN THE HALL FOR WENDY,
SO THAT WENDY WON’T GO AWAY

BOYS
WE HAVE A MOTHER!
AT LAST WE HAVE A MOTHER!

PETER
OH, WHAT PLEASURE SHE’LL BRING TO US,
MAKE US POCKETS AND SING TO US,
TELL US STORIES WE’VE BEEN LONGING TO HEAR
OVER AND OVER!
SHE’LL BE WAITING AT THE DOOR,
WE WON’T BE LONELY ANYMORE
SINCE WENDY, LOVELY WENDY’S HERE TO STAY.

BOYS
WE HAVE A MOTHER!
AT LAST WE HAVE A MOTHER

PETER
(Spoken)
Bring the best of what we have!
(TOOTLES brings PETER a paint bucket and brush)
(To TOOTLES)
Oh, thank you!
(THEY build a house [Bar 44])

BOYS [& PETER]

WE HAVE A MOTHER!
AT LAST WE HAVE A MOTHER

SLIGHTLY
(From inside the house)
Help, Peter! How do we get out?
(PETER paints a door on the front of the house. He paints the doorknob
on the left side.)
 PETER PAN - 48 -

PETER
Now!
(The BOYS emerge, but the door opens from the “wrong” [i.e., the
doorknob] side)
Aww!
(PETER and the BOYS paint windows and flowerboxes on door and sides
of the little house [Bar 70]. PETER paints the word “WENDY” on the
front door but misjudges the spacing - the “DY” spills over past the door
frame)

(Sings)
OH, WHAT PLEASURE SHE’LL BRING TO US,
MAKE US POCKETS AND SING TO US,
TELL US STORIES WE’VE BEEN LONGING TO HEAR
OVER AND OVER!

SHE’LL BE WAITING AT THE DOOR,

WE WON’T BE LONELY ANYMORE
SINCE WENDY

ALL
LOVELY WENDY’S HERE TO STAY.

(WENDY [unseen in the house] turns on the smoke unit, turns it off when
smoke appears from the chimney)

BOYS
WE HAVE A MOTHER!
AT LAST WE HAVE A MOTHER

PETER
SHE’LL BE OUR MOTHER!
IT’S NICE TO HAVE A MOTHER

ALL
WENDY’S HERE TO STAY.

(WENDY emerges at end of song)

PETER
Wendy lady, for you we have built this house. Say that you’re pleased.
 PETER PAN - 49 -

WENDY
Lovely, darling house!

2ND TWIN
And we’re your children!

WENDY
Oh!

BOYS
Wendy lady, be our mother.

WENDY
I’d love to be your mother - provided Peter will be the father.

PETER
(Hesitating, shy)
All right.
(JOHN gives PETER the top hat)
As long as it’s only make-believe.

(HOOK, SMEE, and PIRATES enter behind bushes - a long arm pushes
poison cake out. The BOYS discover it, break and run to it)

BOYS
Look! A cake! A cake! (etc.)

(ALL join in clamor)

WENDY
(Takes cake)
Children! I’m sure this cake is much too damp and rich for you.
(BOYS groan)
Now you go inside the house, but before I put you to sleep I’ll have just enough
time to finish the story of Cinderella!

#25 - Cinderella Tag . . ……. .

(BOYS troop happily inside the house, followed by WENDY and PETER.
The door closes after them)

HOOK
The game is up. Those boys have found a mother!
 PETER PAN - 50 -

SMEE
What’s a mother?

HOOK
(Striking at SMEE)
Tsst! I must think!

SMEE
(They leap into place)
What tempo, Captain?

HOOK
A tarantella!

SMEE
A tarantella!

#26 - Hook’s Tarantella . . ……. .

HOOK
METHINKS I SEE A PLOT, A GLEAM,
A GLIMMER OR A PLAN
BY WHICH, PERHAPS, I MAY REDEEM
ME HONOUR AS A MAN.
KIDNAP WENDY, SEIZE THE BOYS,
AND YOU’LL HAVE HOOK TO THANK,
FOR WHEN THE TIME IS RIPE
YOU’LL SEE THE CHILDREN WALK THE PLANK!

OH!
WHEN WAS SUCH A PRINCELY PLOT
CONCOCTED BY ANOTHER
TO MURDER ALL THE BOYS AND
KEEP THE WENDY FOR OUR MOTHER!

ALL
OH!
WHEN WAS SUCH A PRINCELY PLOT
CONCOCTED BY ANOTHER
TO MURDER ALL THE BOYS AND
KEEP THE WENDY FOR OUR MOTHER!
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HOOK
HEY!

PIRATES
BRAVO!

HOOK
BRAVO!

PIRATES
BRAVO!

HOOK
BRAVO!

PIRATES
YO-HO!

HOOK
YO-HO!

PIRATES
YO-HO!

HOOK
YO-HO!

HOOK & PIRATES

TO THE SHIP! TO THE SHIP!
TO THE SHIP! TO THE SHIP!
TO THE SHIP! TO THE SHIP!
TO THE SHIP! TO THE SHIP!

HOOK
TO THE SHIP!

(Exits)

#27 - Liza’s Dance . . . ……. .

(PETER and WENDY come out of the house - PETER wears his top hat -
WENDY pauses in the doorway)

WENDY
Goodnight, Peter.
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PETER
Goodnight, Wendy.

WENDY
Guard the house well.

PETER
I will.

(WENDY retires. PETER stretches out in the night air using his top hat for
a pillow.

After a moment LIZA flies in [Bar 9].

She dances with the TREES, during which her feather duster becomes a
bunch of gaily colored balloons, then a bouquet of feather flowers.

The LION and KANGAROO come in and dance with her.

She discovers PETER [asleep] - silences the TREES and ANIMALS who
gather around the doorway.

LIZA places the flowers before PETER - then they all settle down)

LIZA
(To TREE)
Ssshhh!

CURTAIN
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ACT TWO

Scene 2

A PATH IN THE WOODS

There are five cutout trees lining the Path in the Woods, behind which is a
green backdrop with eerie mists floating upon it.

#28 - I Won’t Grow Up . . . ……. .

The CROCODILE crosses L to R. LION and KANGAROO come on from L

in ONE, KANGAROO carrying hand mirror, LION a large wicker sewing
box with a string of oversized pearls. The OSTRICH enters from R and is
handed the pearls, which SHE dons. The traveller opens on path drops.
The OSTRICH sees PIRATES off left, pulls a tail feather and throws it
down disdainfully. All ANIMALS exit R, excited.

TIGER LILY and her BRAVES come from behind trees - SHE sees the
feather, picks it up and puts it on, replacing her own feather which she
drops.

TIGER LILY
Uga Wuga Ostrich!

BRAVE ONES
Uga Wuga Ostrich!
(BRAVE ONES exit. PIRATES come on DL carrying HOOK on litter)

PIRATES
WE’RE BLOODY BUCCANEERS
AND EACH A MURDEROUS CROOK!
(SMEE discovers discarded feather and hands it to HOOK)

HOOK
(Yells)
Brave Ones! Pursue ‘em!
(THEY exit R quickly)

(PETER and BOYS enter)

PETER
Are you ready for today’s lesson?
 PETER PAN - 54 -

BOYS
Yes, Peter.

PETER
Then listen to your teacher. Repeat after me.
(Sings)
I WON’T GROW UP.

BOYS
I WON’T GROW UP.

PETER
I DON’T WANNA GO TO SCHOOL.

BOYS
I DON’T WANNA GO TO SCHOOL.

PETER
JUST TO LEARN TO BE A PARROT,

BOYS
JUST TO LEARN TO BE A PARROT,

PETER
AND RECITE A SILLY RULE.

BOYS
AND RECITE A SILLY RULE.

PETER
IF GROWING UP MEANS IT WOULD BE
BENEATH MY DIGNITY TO CLIMB A TREE

PETER & BOYS

I’LL NEVER GROW UP, NEVER GROW UP,
NEVER GROW U-P, NOT ME.

JOHN
(Spoken)
Not I.
PETER
Not me.

BOYS
Not me!
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PETER
(Sings)
I WON’T GROW UP.

BOYS
I WON’T GROW UP.

PETER
I DON’T WANNA WEAR A TIE,

BOYS
I DON’T WANNA WEAR A TIE,

PETER
OR A SERIOUS EXPRESSION

BOYS
OR A SERIOUS EXPRESSION

PETER
IN THE MIDDLE OF JULY.

BOYS
IN THE MIDDLE OF JULY.

PETER
AND IF IT MEANS I MUST PREPARE
TO SHOULDER BURDENS WITH A WORRIED AIR,

PETER & BOYS

I’LL NEVER GROW UP, NEVER GROW UP,
NEVER GROW U-P.

PETER
NOT ME.

JOHN
(Spoken)
Not I.
BOYS
Not me!

PETER
So there.
 PETER PAN - 56 -

PETER
(Sings)
NEVER GONNA BE A MAN.

BOYS
I WON’T!

PETER
LIKE TO SEE SOMEBODY TRY

BOYS
AND MAKE ME.

PETER
ANYONE WHO WANTS TO TRY

BOYS
AND MAKE ME

PETER
TURN INTO A MAN -
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN!
I WON’T GROW UP!

BOYS
I WON’T GROW UP!

PETER
NOT A PENNY WILL I PINCH.

BOYS
NOT A PENNY WILL I PINCH.

PETER
I WILL NEVER GROW A MOUSTACHE.

BOYS
I WILL NEVER GROW A MOUSTACHE.

PETER
OR A FRACTION OF AN INCH.

BOYS
OR A FRACTION OF AN INCH.

PETER & BOYS

 PETER PAN - 57 -

‘CAUSE GROWING UP IS AWFULLER

THAN ALL THE AWFUL THINGS THAT EVER WERE
I’LL NEVER GROW UP, NEVER GROW UP,
NEVER GROW U-P,

PETER
NO SIR.

MICHAEL & JOHN

NOT I!

TWINS
NOT ME!

BIG BOYS
SO THERE!

CURLEY
I WON’T GROW UP!

BOYS
I WON’T GROW UP!

CURLEY
I WILL NEVER EVEN TRY;

BOYS
I WILL NEVER EVEN TRY;

CURLEY
(Spoken)
I will do what Peter tells me!

BOYS
I will do what Peter tells me!

PETER
(Sings)
AND I’LL NEVER ASK HIM WHY!

BOYS
AND I’LL NEVER ASK HIM WHY!

TWINS
WE WON’T GROW UP!
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BOYS
WE WON’T GROW UP!

TWINS
WE WILL NEVER GROW A DAY!

BOYS
WE WILL NEVER GROW A DAY!

TWINS
(Spoken)
And if someone tries to make us

BOYS
And if someone tries to make us

TWINS
(Sings)
WE WILL SIMPLY RUN AWAY!

BOYS
WE WILL SIMPLY RUN AWAY!

SLIGHTLY
I WON’T GROW UP!

BOYS
I WON’T GROW UP!

SLIGHTLY
NO, I PROMISE THAT I WON’T!

BOYS
NO, I PROMISE THAT I WON’T!

SLIGHTLY
I WILL STAY A BOY FOREVER!

BOYS
I WILL STAY A BOY FOREVER!

PETER
AND BE BANISHED IF I DON’T!

BOYS
AND BE BANISHED IF I DON’T!
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PETER & BOYS

AND NEVERLAND WILL ALWAYS BE
THE HOME OF YOUTH AND JOY AND LIBERTY
I’LL NEVER GROW UP, NEVER GROW UP,
NEVER GROW U-P,

MICHAEL & JOHN

NOT ME!

TWINS
NOT ME!

SLIGHTLY & CURLEY

NOT ME!

TOOTLES & NIBS

NOT ME!

PETER
NOT ME!

ALL
NOT ME!

(At end of number ALL fall on the ground laughing. Suddenly PETER
points offstage)

PETER
Hey!

PETER
Pirates!
(BOYS, MICHAEL & JOHN exit L. PETER hides behind tree DS)

(SMEE enters, followed by CECCO [carrying TIGER LILY], and three

other PIRATES)

SMEE
Move, you spalpeen, move! The Captain ordered us to tie her to the tree and leave
her here for the wolves!

STARKEY
To the tree with her, mate!
 PETER PAN - 60 -

SMEE
Not so rough, Starkey. Roughish, but not so rough.

PETER
Poor Tiger Lily!

CECCO
What was that?

PETER
(Mimics HOOK’s voice)
Ahoy there, you lubbers!

STARKEY
It’s the Captain, he must be close by.

SMEE
(Calling)
I tied the Brave to the tree, Captain.

PETER
Set her free!

SMEE
But, Captain-

PETER
Cut her bonds, or I’ll plunge my hook in you.

STARKEY
Better do as the Captain orders.

SMEE
Aye aye!

(THEY undo TIGER LILY’s bonds and SHE runs off L whooping. PETER
mimics the whoop. TIGER LILY and PETER shake hands before she exits.)

HOOK
(Off)
Ahoy there!

SMEE
(Relieved)
It’s the Captain!
 PETER PAN - 61 -

(HOOK enters)

STARKEY
Captain, is all well?

HOOK
All is very well.
(Shrieks)
Where is Tiger Lily?

SMEE
(Shaken)
It’s all right, Captain, we let her go.

HOOK
(Terrible)
Let her go?

SMEE
‘Twas your own orders, Captain.

STARKEY
(Whimpering)
You called to us to let her go.

HOOK
Brimstone and gall, what cozening is here?
(PETER laughs)

#29 - Pantomime . . . ……. .

(HOOK, SMEE, and STARKEY take four steps downstage)

HOOK
(Addressing the immensities)
Spirit that haunts this dark forest tonight, dost hear me?

PETER
(In the same voice)
Odds, bobs, hammer and tongs, I hear you.

HOOK
(Gripping the stave for support)
Speak stranger, who are you?
 PETER PAN - 62 -

PETER
(Who is only too ready to speak)
I am Hook -

HOOK
Hook?

PETER
Captain of the Jolly Roger.

HOOK
If you are Hook - who am I?

PETER
A codfish.

HOOK
(Aghast)
A codfish?

SMEE
(Drawing back from him)
Have we been captained all this time by a codfish?

STARKEY
It’s lowering to our pride.

HOOK
(Feeling that his ego is slipping from him)
Don’t desert me, bullies.
(SMEE and STARKEY melt away)
(There is a touch of the feminine in HOOK, as in all the greatest pirates,
and it prompts him to try the guessing game)
Speak, Stranger - have you another name?

PETER
(Falling to the lure)
Uh…yes.

HOOK
(Thirstily)
Is it vegetable?

#30 - Oh, My Mysterious Lady . . . ……. .

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PETER
No.

HOOK
Mineral?

PETER
No.

HOOK
Animal?

PETER
(Pauses to think)
Yes.

HOOK
Ah! Have you another…voice?

PETER
Yes!
(PETER sings operatic voice)
LA LA, LA LA, LA LA LA.
LA LA LA

HOOK
It’s a lady!

PETER
(Cadenza)
AH AH AH AH AH AH AH!

HOOK
It’s a beautiful lady!
(Paso doblè music begins)
OH! MY MYSTERIOUS LADY,
WHAT IS YOUR NAME?
OH! MY MYSTERIOUS LADY,
FROM WHENCE HAVE YOU CAME?

PETER
LA LA LA LA LA LA,
LA LA LA LA
 PETER PAN - 64 -

HOOK
ANSWER MY PLEA,
WHO MAY YE BE?
PETER
LA LA LA LA LA LA!
LA LA LA LA LA LA!
AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH!

HOOK
OH! MY MYSTERIOUS LADY,
WHAT IS YOUR NAME?
(Slow Czardas tempo)
TAKE OFF THAT VEIL AND
LET ME SEE YOUR FACE!
WHY HIDE YOUR BEAUTY BENEATH
THAT TON OF LACE?

PETER
(Held note)
AH!

HOOK
TAKE OFF THAT VEIL AND
LET ME SEE YOUR FACE!
WHY HIDE YOUR BEAUTY BENEATH
THAT TON OF LACE?
WHAT’S YOUR SECRET?

PETER
[Coquettishly]
LA LA LA LA LA LA!

HOOK
TELL YOUR SECRET!

PETER
LA LA LA LA LA LA!

HOOK
SPEAK, OH SPEAK, OH SPEAK I PRAY YOU,
TELL ME, OH TELL ME YOUR NAME!
 PETER PAN - 65 -

(PETER comes out from behind a tree and bonks HOOK over the head
with a stick. HOOK falls face down to the ground in grovelling
supplication)
PETER
(Hungarian vocalise)
AH AH AH AH AH AHA AH!

HOOK
(During above, pleadingly)
Ah! Per favore! Madonna mia! Misericordia!
(As PETER continues to vocalise obliviously up and down the scale,
HOOK has meanwhile peeked under the veil and discovered instead of the
sensuous lady that it is PETER. During the cadenzas he beckons to the
PIRATES)

PETER
(Trilling)
AH!
(HOOK motions to SMEE, L, who hands him a wooden flute)
(Trilling again)
AH!

(PETER and HOOK eadenza in tandem [Lucia-style], with HOOK playing

thirds on the flute with PETER. As PETER hits a high note [Bar 108], the
PIRATES pull off PETER’s veil and pounce.

There now follows a burlesque chase scene, half-dance, half chase, in

Hungarian style. The PIRATES have PETER, then lose him again. Finally
they think they have him and fall upon him in a huddle, only to find he has
snuck away. PETER taunts them)

(PETER)
Yoo-hoo!

(The PIRATES advance for the kill - at which point the BRAVE ONES
enter, some of them on kiddie scooters, and rout the PIRATES. PETER and
TIGER LILY shake hands as the curtain falls)

CURTAIN
 PETER PAN - 66 -

ACT TWO

Scene 3

THE HOME UNDERGROUND

The path cutout flies out, the back drop flies out, and the full border flies
out.

The neutral traveller opens on the Home Underground. There is a

fireplace RC. To the right of this is a red velvet bench arcing around a tree
trunk. An iron kettle hangs in the fireplace, and there are several kitchen
utensils, too. A clothesline to the R of the tree trunk holds several little
boys’ shirts and an empty raffia cage. Below this is a cradle nestling
against a ramp leading off R. Going onstage this ramp becomes the top of
the home underground.

UL there is a door from the ramp into the Home Underground, opening on
a fireman’s pole. To the L of this pole there is a ladder. Three ladders can
be seen through arches UC. There is a small shelf ULC holding PETER”s
medicine and a glass. To the L of this is a pegged coat rack.

#31 - Underground Opening . . . ……. .

As the curtain opens SLIGHTLY, TOOTLES, and NIBS are at a large tin
tub DR washing and drying dishes. WENDY is clearing a table, C - and
the BOYS pile stools upon the table before taking it UC. A rocking chair is
UC and TINKER BELL’s home in a tree stump is DR)

WENDY
(As music fades)
Dear, dear, your father’s missed his dinner again. Another long day at the forest.

TOOTLES
Oh mother, it was such a wonderful dinner. Strawberry shortcake, vanilla ice
cream, chocolate pudding, lemon meringue pie and fudge for desert.

WENDY
Yes, I always believe in a well-balanced diet. Now get the rest of the house in
order.

#32 - Tink and Wendy . . . ……. .

(To TINK)
Tinker Bell!
 PETER PAN - 67 -

TINK
(Celeste)

WENDY
Is your room straightened up?

TINK
(Celeste)

WENDY
Now, really, Tink! I will not go home - Peter needs me.

TINK
(Celeste)

WENDY
Why can’t we talk this over like two civilized human beings? Ow! Ow! Tink, let
go!

TINK
(Celeste followed by a rude noise on the bassoon)

1ST TWIN
Now that we’re finished, tell us a story.

WENDY
Very well.

CURLEY
Tell us the story of Cinderella.

WENDY
Well, the Prince found her, and -

BOYS
And?

WENDY
And they all lived happily ever after.
(BOYS cheer)

2ND TWIN
Tell us the end of Sleeping Beauty.

WENDY
Well, the Prince woke her up and -
 PETER PAN - 68 -

BOYS
And?

WENDY
And they all lived happily ever after.
(BOYS cheer)

TOOTLES
Tell us the end of Hamlet.

WENDY
Hamlet? Well, the Prince Hamlet died, and the King died, and the Queen died,
and Ophelia died, and Polonius died, and Laertes died, and -

BOYS
And?

WENDY
Well, the rest of them lived happily ever after.
(BOYS cheer)
Now, no more stories until your father comes home.

#33 - Braves Descend . . . ……. .

(The BRAVE ONES run up the ramp from R, open the door and slide down
the pole into the home underground. WENDY, MICHAEL, JOHN and the
LOST BOYS grab make-shift weapons - broom, dustpan, rolling pin, and
WENDY aims a rifle at them. In the nick of time, PETER arrives wearing
his new feathered headpiece from TIGER LILY)
PETER
Don’t shoot! We’re friends now!

BOYS
Friends?

PETER
I saved Tiger Lily’s life in the forest and she saved mine.

TIGER LILY
Peter Pan is the sun, the moon, and the stars!

PETER
Yes, I know.

(PETER slides down pole)

 PETER PAN - 69 -

(PETER)
No hands! Come on, boys, shake hands with your new brothers.
(BOYS hesitate)
Don’t be afraid! Oh, come on - let’s make two tribes into one. Tiger Lily, let’s
smokum peace pipe!

#35 - Ugh-A-Wug . . . ……. .

(ALL sit in circle on the floor. The Peace Pipe [which is actually a bubble
pipe] is handed around and given to PETER, who blows bubbles with it.
HE passes it to TIGER LILY, who likewise blows bubbles with it)

(PETER)
UGH-A-WUG, UGH-A-WUG, UGH-A-WUG, UGH-A-WUG-
WAH

TIGER LILY
UGH-A-WUG, UGH-A-WUG, UGH-A-WUG, UGH-A-WUG-
WAH

PETER & TIGER LILY

GUG-A-BLUCK, GUG-A-BLUCK, GUG-A-BLUCK,
GUG-A-BLUCK,
WA-HOO!
UGH-A-WUG, UGH-A-WUG, UGH-A-WUG, UGH-A-WUG-
UBBLE WUBBLE,
WHEN WE GET IN TROUBLE, UGH-A-WOO,
THERE’S JUST ONE THING TO DO.

PETER
I’LL JUST SEND FOR TIGER LILY!

TIGER LILY
I’LL JUST SEND FOR PETER PAN!

BOTH
WE’LL BE COMING WILLY-NILLY, LILY!
BEAT ON A DRUM,
AND I WILL COME!

PETER
AND I WILL COME AND SAVE THE
BRAVE NOBLE WARRIOR
 PETER PAN - 70 -

ALL
BOOM BOOM!

TIGER LILY & BRAVE ONES

UGH-A-WUG, UGH-A-WUG, UGH-A-WUG, UGH-A-WUG-
WAH

PETER & CHILDREN

UGH-A-WUG, UGH-A-WUG, UGH-A-WUG, UGH-A-WUG-
WAH

BRAVE ONES
UGH!

BOYS
WAH!

BRAVE ONES
UGH!

BOYS
WAH!

PETER, TOOTLES & 1ST TWIN

IBBITY BIBBITY, IBBITY BIBBITY -
SAB.

TIGER LILY & 2 BRAVES

IBBITY BIBBITY, IBBITY BIBBITY -
SAB.

ALL 6
PUFF-A-WUFF, PUFF-A-WUFF, PUFF-A-WUFF,
PUFF-A-WUFF -
POW-WOW!

PETER
IBBITY BIBBITY, IBBITY BIBBITY -
SABBLE-SEEVIL,
IF WE COME TO EVIL,
SABBLE-SOO, THERE’S JUST ONE THING TO DO.

PETER, TOOTLES & 1ST TWIN

WE’LL JUST SEND FOR TIGER LILY!
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TIGER LILY & 2 BRAVES

WE’LL JUST SEND FOR PETER PAN!

ALL 6
WE’LL BE COMING WILLY-NILLY, LILY!

PETER & TIGER LILY

SEND UP A FLARE
AND I’LL BE THERE
YOU KNOW YOU REALLY GOT A FRIEND!

OTHERS
A FRIEND!

ALL 6
WE’LL BE TRUE BLOOD BROTHERS TO THE END!
UGH!

PETER & TIGER LILY

UGH UGH WAH!

ALL
UGH UGH WAH!
UGH UGH WAH!

(DANCE)
PETER & TIGER LILY
UGH-A-WUG, UGH-A-WUG, UGH-A-WUG, UGH-A-WUG-
WAH!
SSSHHH!

ALL
UGH-A-WUG, UGH-A-WUG, UGH-A-WUG, UGH-A-WUG-
WAH!
SSSHHH!
BOOP-A-DOOP, BOOP-A-DOOP, BOOP-A-DOOP,
BOOP-A-DOOP,
WAH-HOO!
SSSHHH!
UGH-A-WUG, UGH-A-WUG, UGH-A-WUG, UGH-A-WUG-

PETER
UGH-A-WETCHA,
IF THE PIRATES GETCHA,
 PETER PAN - 72 -

(PETER)
AND YOU’RE TOOK
AWAY BY CAPTAIN HOOK -

ALL
HOOK!

TIGER LILY
(Spoken)
What’ll we do?

PETER
(Sung)
I’LL JUST SEND FOR TIGER LILY!

TIGER LILY
I’LL JUST SEND FOR PETER PAN!

ALL
WE’LL BE COMING WILLY-NILLY, LILY!
SEND UP A FLARE
AND I’LL BE THERE
YOU KNOW YOU REALLY GOT A FRIEND!
(A FRIEND!)
WE’LL BE TRUE BLOOD BROTHERS TO THE END!
UGH!

WENDY
Tiger Lily, I’ll never get my children to sleep after all this excitement.

TIGER LILY
We’ll go up now and keep guard. Watch out for pirates.

#36 - Home Sweet Home . . . ……. .

(General goodnights. BRAVE ONES exit and mount ladders. THEY settle
down and sleep on ramp above cave)

WENDY
Now, children, make your father comfortable.

SLIGHTLY
Here’s your chair, Father.
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TWINS
Here are your slippers, Father.

JOHN
Here’s your pipe, Father.

MICHAEL
Here’s your paper, Father.

WENDY
Now go wash up - it’s your bed time.
(BOYS run off. WENDY draws stool DS and sits)
They are sweet, aren’t they, Peter?

PETER
There’s nothing better than sitting by the fireside with the little ones close by -
Mother.

MICHAEL
(Rising in cradle)
Peter, don’t you think I’m too big for a cradle?

PETER
A little less noise there!
(A serious expression comes over PETER’s face. WENDY notices)

WENDY
Peter, what is it?

PETER
I was just thinking - it’s only pretend, isn’t it, that I’m their father?

WENDY
Oh yes. But they are ours, Peter, yours and mine.

PETER
(Determined to get at facts, the only things that puzzle him)
But not really?

WENDY
Well, no, not if you don’t wish it.

PETER
I don’t.
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WENDY
Peter, what are your exact feelings for me?

PETER
(In the class-room)
Those of a devoted son, Wendy.

WENDY
(Turning away)
I thought so.

PETER
(Puzzled)
You’re so strange. Tinker Bell’s just the same. There’s something she wants to be
to me, but she says it’s not my mother.

#37 - You Silly Ass . . . ……. .

TINKER BELL
(Celeste & Bassoon)

WENDY
I almost agree with her.

#38 - Distant Melody . . . ……. .

(BOYS return with nightclothes and pallets)

CURLEY
We’re all ready for bed now, Mother.

TOOTLES
I even brushed my teeth

WENDY
Then in you go!
(BOYS settle)
Peter, do you know a lullaby to sing to our children?

PETER
Lullaby…lullaby - I think so. Sometimes late at night I seem to remember…
(Sings)
ONCE UPON A TIME AND LONG AGO
I HEARD SOMEONE SINGING SOFT AND LOW.
NOW WHEN DAY IS DONE AND NIGHT IS NEAR
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I RECALL THAT SONG I USED TO HEAR.

“MY CHILD MY VERY OWN,
DON’T BE AFRAID, YOU’RE NOT ALONE.
SLEEP UNTIL THE DAWN, FOR ALL IS WELL.”
LONG AGO THIS SONG WAS SUNG TO ME,
NOW IT’S JUST A DISTANT MELODY.
SOMEWHERE FROM THE PAST I USED TO KNOW,
ONCE UPON A TIME AND LONG AGO.

(MICHAEL whimpers)

MICHAEL
Wendy, I’m homesick! I want to go home!

JOHN
So do I.

WENDY
Yes, we must go hme. Perhaps Mother’s in half-mourning by this time.

1ST TWIN
You’re not leaving us, Wendy?

WENDY
I must - at once. Peter, I appeal to you to make the necessary arrangements.

PETER
If you like. Tink, you are to get up at once and take Wendy on a trip across the
sea.

#39 - Tinker Bell Rejoices . . . ……. .

TINK
(Celeste)

WENDY
Dear ones, if you all come with me I feel almost sure my mother and father would
adopt you.
(BOYS cheer)

TOOTLES
Peter, can we go?

WENDY
All right.
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(BOYS cheer)

WENDY
Then put your beds away quickly, and remember to bring the baby clothes you
were lost in.
(BOYS exit)
Peter, I’m going to give you your medicine before your journey.
(SHE pours medicine into glass on shelf)
Get your things, Peter.

PETER
I’m not going with you, Wendy.

WENDY
Yes, Peter.

PETER
No.

WENDY
Why not?

PETER
I don’t want to grow up and learn about solemn things. I just want to always be a
little boy and to have fun. No one’s going to catch me and make me a man.
(BOYS re-enter with bundles)

SLIGHTLY
We’re all ready to go now.

WENDY
Peter isn’t coming with us.

2ND TWIN
Peter’s not coming?

CURLEY
Then, Peter, we won’t leave you.

PETER
That’s all right. If you find your mothers I hope you like them.
(BOYS cry)
Now then, no fuss, no blubbering, just say goodbye.

#40 - Fight Above Ground . . . ……. .

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(PIRATES attack the guarding BRAVE ONES and rout them. The
CHILDREN all huddle around PETER)

PETER
Shh! It’s over!

WENDY
But who won?

PETER
If the Braves have won they will beat the tom-tom. Listen!

(HOOK, up above, beats out a cadence with his claw)

The tom-tom! A Brave Ones victory!

#41 - Farewell Music . . . ……. .

You’re perfectly safe now, Wendy. Tiger Lily will escort you through the forest, as
flying tires you so. Goodbye, boys.

(The BOYS file past PETER saying goodbye and shaking hands.
TOOTLES is the last - he reaches out his arms, but PETER turns away
from him sadly)

PETER
Tink, are you ready?

TINK
(Celeste)

PETER
Then lead the way.

(Sits on a stool, his back to WENDY)

WENDY
(Placing medicine on table)
Peter, that’s your medicine, you know.

PETER
I won’t forget it.

WENDY
Peter, if you come for me once a year, I’ll do your spring cleaning. Will you
come?
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PETER
If you like.

WENDY
You won’t forget? Peter, if another little girl, one younger than I - oh, Peter, how I
wish I could take you up and squidge you!
(PETER pulls away)
Yes, I know. Good-bye.

PETER
Wendy!
(WENDY turns back hopefully. PETER returns the thimble and WENDY
turns away to climb the ladder. PETER lies down on the bench)

#42 - Kidnapping & Poison . . . ……. .

(The TRAVELLERS start upon their journey, little guessing that HOOK
has issued his silent orders: a man to the mouth of each tree. As the
CHILDREN squeeze up they are plucked from their trees, trussed, and
thrown like bales of cotton from one PIRATE to another)

HOOK
Psst! Take them all to the ship! The boys we will make walk the plank - and
Wendy will be our Mother!

SMEE
But what about Peter?

HOOK
(Holding up vial of poison)
This is for Peter!

SMEE
Poison!

HOOK
Aye!
(Laughs)
He’s doomed!

(HOOK and PETER are now, as it were, alone on the island. Below,
PETER is on the bed, asleep, no weapon near him; above, HOOK, armed
to the teeth, is searching noiselessly for some tree down which the
nastiness of him can descend. Don’t be too much alarmed by this; it is
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precisely the situation PETER would have chose, indeed, if the whole
thing were pretend.

HOOK finds the tree and descends. He sees the medicine on the table, and
to WENDY’s draught he adds from a bottle three drops of poison. The
medicine in the glass turns blood red.

HOOK worms his way upwards, and winding his cloak around him, as if
to conceal his person from the night of which he is the blackest part, he
stalks moodily toward the lagoon.

A dot of light flashes past him and darts down the nearest tree, looking for
PETER, only for PETER, quite indifferent about the others when she finds
him safe.)

#43 - Tink’s Sacrifice . . . ……. .

PETER
(Stirring)
Who is that?
(Sits up)
Is anyone there?
(TINK has to tell her tale, in one long ungrammatical sentence)
What? The Brave Ones were defeated? And Wendy and the boys have been
captured by the pirates? I’ll rescue her! I’ll rescue her!
(HE leaps first at his dagger, then at his grindstone, to sharpen it. TINK
alights near the glass, and rings out a warning cry)
What? Oh, that’s just my medicine.

TINK
(Celeste)

PETER
Poisoned? Nonsense. Who could have poisoned it? I promised Wendy to take it,
and I’m going to, just as soon as I’ve sharpened my dagger.
(TINK, who sees its red color and remembers the red in the pirate’s eye,
nobly swallows the daught as PETER’s hand is reaching for it)
Why, Tink, you have drunk my medicine!
(SHE flutters strangely about the room, answering him now in a very thin
tinkle)

TINK
(Celeste)
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PETER
What’s the matter with you?

TINK
(Celeste)

PETER
It was poisoned and you drank it to save my life! Tink, dear Tink, you’re dying?

TINK
(Celeste)

(He has never called her “dear Tink” before, and for a moment she is gay;
she alights on his shoulder, gives his chin a loving bit, whispers ‘You silly
ass’ and falls on her tiny bed. The boudoir, which is lit by her flickers
ominously. He is on his knees by the opening.)

PETER
Your light is growing faint, and if it goes out, that means you’re dead! Your voice
is so low I can scarcely hear what you’re saying.

TINK
(Celeste)

PETER
You say -

TINK
(Celeste)

PETER
You think you could get well if -

TINK
(Celeste)

PETER
If…

TINK
(Celeste)

PETER
(He is sobbing now)
If what, Tink?
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TINK
(Celeste)

PETER
…if children believed in fairies.
(He rises and throws out his arms he knows not to whom, perhaps to the
boys and girls of whom he is not one)
Do you believe? Oh please, please believe! If you believe, wherever you are, clap
your hands and she’ll hear you!

#44 - Tink’s Recovery . . . ……. .

(Many clap, some don’t, a few hiss. Then perhaps there is a rush of
NANA’s to the nurseries to see what on eart is happening. But TINK is
saved)
Clap! Clap! Don’t let Tink die! Clap! She’s getting better! Her light’s getting
stronger! Oh, she’s all right now! Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you!
(TINK thanks the audience by bouncing down to the footlights and
flashing dizzily all over the auditorium like a skyrocket burst. PETER
follows her downstage. TINK returns to the stage.)
Come on, Tink! Let’s rescue Wendy!
(PETER ascends his tree as if he were shot up it. What is is feeling is
“Hook or me this time!” He is frightfully happy.)

CURTAIN

END OF ACT TWO

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ACT THREE

Scene 1

THE PATH IN THE WOODS

#45 - Opening Act Three . . . ……. .

(LIZA is discovered C dusting. PIRATES enter singing Pirate March,

dragging WENDY, MICHAEL, JOHN and the LOST BOYS, all gagged.)

PIRATES
YO-HO! YO-HO!
YO-HO! YO-HO! YO-HO!
(Grunt)
WE’RE BLOODY BUCCANEERS
(Grunt)
AND EACH A MURDEROUS CROOK!
(Grunt)
WE MASSACRE BRAVE ONES,
KILL LITTLE BOYS
AND CATER TO CAPTAIN HOOK!
YO-HO! YO-HO!
THE TERRIBLE CAPTAIN HOOK!

(KANGAROO, LION and OSTRICH all enter excited. THEY see PETER
and the BRAVE ONES and hide on apron DR. PETER and the BRAVE
ONES enter.)

PETER
Ugh-a-wug-a Pirates!

BRAVE ONES
Ugh-a-wug-a Pirates!

PETER
Ugh-a-wug-a Hook!

BRAVE ONES
Ugh-a-wug-a Hook!

PETER
Ugh! Revenge!
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BRAVE ONES
Ugh! Revenge!
Whoop! Whoop! Whoop!

PETER
When on the warpath - sshhh!

BRAVE ONES
Ssshhh!
(PETER motions BRAVE ONES off)

PETER
(To ANIMALS)
Come on!
(To LIZA)
You too!
(To CROCODILE as PETER accompanies him)
To the ship! To the ship! To the ship!
(THEY exit)

DROP FLIES OUT

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ACT THREE

Scene 2

THE PIRATE SHIP

#46 - The Pirate Ship . . . ……. .

In the strange light of a moonlit night we see what is happening on the

deck of the Jolly Roger, which is flying the skull and crossbones and lies
low in the water.

Some PIRATES are preparing torture instruments. A quartet on the poop

prepare their music.

HOOK paces.

On the poop, MULLINS is visible, in the only greatcoat on the ship, raking
with his glass the monstrous rocks within which the lagoon is cooped.

STARKEY leans over the bulwark, silently surveying the silent waters. The
only sound to be heard is made by SMEE at his sewing-machine, which
lends a touch of domesticity to the night.

HOOK is now leaning against the mast, now prowling the deck, the double
cigar in his mouth. With PETER surely at last removed from his path we,
who know how vain a tabernacle is man, would not be surprised to find
him bellied out by the winds of his success, but it is not so; he is still
uneasy, looking long and meaninglessly at familiar objects, such as the
ship’s bell or the Long Tom, like one who may shortly be a stranger to
them. It is as if Pan’s terrible oath ‘Hook or me this time!’ had already
boarded the ship.

HOOK
How still the night is. Nothing sounds alive. Now is the hour when children in
their homes are a-bed -

#47 - Hook’s Waltz . . . ……. .

- their lips bright-browned with the goodnight chocolate, and their tongues
drowsily searching for belated crumbs housed insecurely on their shining cheeks.
Compare with them the captive children on this boat! Split me infinitives, but ‘tis
me hour of triumph! Peter killed at last and all the boys about to walk the plank.
(Laughs)
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(HOOK)
At last I’ve reached me peak! I’m the greatest villain of all time! Who was
Bluebeard?

PIRATES
Nobody!

HOOK
Who was Nero?

PIRATES
Nobody!

HOOK
Who was Jack the Ripper?

PIRATES
Nobody!

HOOK
(Sings)
WHO’S THE SWINIEST SWINE IN THE WORLD?

PIRATES
CAPTAIN HOOK! CAPTAIN HOOK!

HOOK
WHO’S THE DIRTIEST DOG IN THIS WONDERFUL
WORLD?

PIRATES
CAPTAIN HOOK! CAPTAIN HOOK!

HOOK
CAPTAIN OF VILLAINY,
MURDER AND LOOK.
(Grabbing SMEE)
EAGER TO KILL ANY WHO SAYS
THAT HIS HOOK ISN’T CUTE.

SMEE
(Cowering)
It’s cute!
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HOOK
(Laughs and drops SMEE)
WHO’S THE SILMIEST RAT IN THE PACK?

PIRATES
CAPTAIN HOOK! CAPTAIN HOOK!

HOOK
WHO’S UNLOVABLE?

PIRATES
YOU!

HOOK
WHO’S UNLIVABLE?

PIRATES
YOU!

HOOK
WHO’S EXISTENCE IS QUITE UNFORGIVABLE?

PIRATES
YOU!

HOOK
WHO WOULD STOOP TO THE LOWEST
AND CHEAPEST OF TRICKS IN THE BOOK?

PIRATES
TRICKS IN THE BOOK!

HOOK
BLIMEY!

PIRATES
SLIMEY CAPTAIN HOOK!
(2 PIRATES lift HOOK onto their shoulders, while the others pirouette
around him)

PIRATES
(Shouted)
Captain Hook!
Captain Hook!
Captain Hook!
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(PIRATES set HOOK down)

(PIRATES)
(Sung)
CAPTAIN HOOK!

(SMEE gives HOOK a hand mirror [Bar 100], then places apple on 1st
PIRATE’s head. HOOK, using the mirror, attempts to shoot it off from his
shoulder, using a flint-lock pistol, Annie Oakley-style.

He shoots, and misses, and a different PIRATE screams and falls dead.)

PIRATES
Hooray!

(2nd PIRATE puts the apple on SMEE’s head. SMEE covers his eyes with
his hands. HOOK aims and shoots. 2nd PIRATE screams and falls dead.
HOOK shrugs his shoulders.)

HOOK
Oh, well.

PIRATES
Hooray!

HOOK
All mortals envy me! Yet better, perhaps, for Hook to have had less ambition.

(Violin solo begins. HOOK continues with a schmaltzy, 19th century type
of recitation over music)

Oh fame! Fame! Thou glittering bauble, in searching for thee what fame have I
not lost.

(HOOK bends over and puts his head in his hands. As he does so, SMEE,
seated at the sewing machine, loudly rips a large piece of calico cloth.
HOOK starts, and checks his clothes for tears. Finding nothing, he returns
to his soliloquy)

No little children love me. I’m told they play at Peter Pan, and that the strongest
always chooses to be Peter. They force the baby to be Hook. The baby! That’s
where the canker gnaws. I’m told they find Smee loveable. How can I break it to
him that they find him loveable? No!

(Chord)
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(HOOK)
Bi-carbonate of soda, no!

(Chord)

Not even -

(SMEE tears a cloth again as HOOK bends over. HOOK cries out at the
sound)

Auggh!

(Signals SMEE to look over his backside)

All in one piece?

(SMEE nods)

PIRATES
Hooray!

HOOK
Who’s the swiniest?

PIRATES
Swiniest!

HOOK
The doggiest?

PIRATES
Doggiest!

HOOK
The slimiest?

PIRATES
Slimiest!

HOOK
WHO’S THE CREEPIEST CREEP IN THE WORLD?

PIRATES
CAPTAIN HOOK! CAPTAIN HOOK!

HOOK
WHO’S INSENSIBLE?
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PIRATES
YOU!

HOOK
REPREHENSIBLE?

PIRATES
YOU!

HOOK
WHO’S BEHAVIOR IS JUST INDEFENSIBLE?

PIRATES
YOU!

HOOK
WHO’S THE CRAWLINGEST, CRUELEST, CRUMMIEST,
CROOKEDEST CROOK?

PIRATES
CROOKEDEST CROOK!

WHAT A PRIZE!

WHAT A JOY!

HOOK
MISSUS HOOK’S LITTLE BABY BOY!

PIRATES
THE SCOURGE OF THE SEA!

SMEE
(Daintily)
Just lil ol’ me!

ALL
CAPTAIN HOOK!

PIRATES
HOOK HOOK!
HOOK HOOK!

HOOK
HOOK!
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PIRATES
HOOK HOOK!
HOOK HOOK!

HOOK
HOOK!

HOOK
YO-HO!

(End of number)

HOOK
Are all the prisoners chained?

SMEE
Aye, aye, the little birds are.

HOOK
Then hoist them up.

#48 - Prisoner Music . . . ……. .

(The terrified BOYS [and WENDY] are prodded up and tossed about the
deck.)
Now then, you bullies, six of you are about to walk the plank, but I have room fro
two cabin-boys - which of you is it going to be?

2ND TWIN
(After huddle)
You see, Sir, I don’t think my mother would like me to be a pirate. Would your
mother like you to be a pirate, Slightly?

SLIGHTLY
I don’t think so. Would your mother like you to be a pirate, Twin?

1ST TWIN
I don’t think so. Nibs, would your mother -

HOOK
Stow that gab.
(To JOHN)
You boy - you look as though you had a little pluck in you. Didst ever dream of
becoming a pirate, me hearty?
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JOHN
(Dazzled by being singled out)
What would you call me if I join?

HOOK
Blackbeard Joe.
(PIRATES laugh)

JOHN
Can we still be faithful to the flag?

HOOK
You would have to swear “Down with the flag!”

PIRATES
Aye, aye!

JOHN
Then I refuse.

MICHAEL
And I refuse!

HOOK
That seals your doom.
(To PIRATES)
Bring their mother.
(WENDY is brought forward. MICHAEL runs to her)

MICHAEL
Wendy!

HOOK
(To WENDY)
Well, me proud beauty, you are about to see your children walk the plank!

WENDY
Are they to die?

HOOK
(Laughs)
They are.
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PIRATES
(Laughing ad lib)
Aye!

HOOK
Silence! Silence all, for a mother’s last words to her sons.
(HOOK removes his hat and bows his head. PIRATES turn away and bow
their heads)

WENDY
These are my last words.

HOOK
Thank you! Tie her up - and fetch the plank!

#49 - Peter Comes On Board . . . ……. .

(WENDY is tied up to the mast and the BOYS put in position to walk the
plank)

(All eyes are fixed upon the plank [actually a huge sliding board] now
protruding from the poop over the ship’s side. A great change, however,
occurs in the time HOOK takes to raise his claw and point to this deadly
engine. No one is now looking at the plank: for the tick, tick of the
CROCODILE is heard)

(HOOK)
Smee! The croc! The croc! Save me! Save me!
(Falls prostrate face down on the deck)

SMEE
I’ll save you!
(Yet it is not to bear on the CROCODILE that all eyes slew round, it is that
they may bear on HOOK. Otherwise prisoners and captors are equally
inert, like actors in some play who have found themselves ‘on’ in a scene
in which they are not personally concerned. Even the iron claw hangs
inactive, as if aware that the crocodile is not coming for it. As the
menacing sound draws nearer they close their eyes respectfully or
fearfully)

(PETER climbs over the railing carrying an over-sized alarm clock [Bar
19] as the PIRATES gather at the opposite ends of the rail listening to
what they think is the CROCODILE - then over the rail following PETER
come the BRAVE ONES, the ANIMALS and LIZA last of all. The BOYS
 PETER PAN - 93 -

and WENDY greet them silently and PETER guides the BRAVE ONES and
ANIMALS into the cabin and below decks. ALL scurry to hiding places.
The OSTRICH puts her head in a cannon. PETER throws a tarpaulin over
her tail.

LIZA has no place to hide. All boxes, nooks and crannies are occupied.
PETER opens the cabin door and beckons to her and pops a barrel over
her. The mop still sticks up over the top. WENDY and BOYS resume their
frightened attitude as the ticking stops)

SMEE
It is gone, Captain! There is not a sound.
(Immensely relieved, HOOK leaps to action with a heel click.)

HOOK
(With gay abandon to the BOYS)
Thought I was frightened, eh? How would you like a touch of the cat before you
walk the plank?
(He is more pitiless than ever now that he believes he has a charmed life.)
Fetch the cat, Jukes; it’s in the cabin.

JUKES
Ay, ay, sir.
(HE goes below)

#50 - The Song of the Cat . . . ……. .

HOOK
(Sings unaccompanied)
HE’S OFF TO GET THE CAT,
THE MEAN AND SCRATCHEDY CAT.
THE STING OF ALL NINE OF ITS TERRIBLE TAILS -

(From the dark cabin comes a curdling screech [JUKES] which wails
through the ship and dies away. It is followed by a sound, almost more
eerie in the circumstances, that can only be likened to the crowing of a
rooster.)
(HOOK)
What was that?
(CECCO swings into the cabin, and in a moment returns, livid.)
(With an effort)
What is the matter with Bill Jukes, you dog?
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CECCO
He’s dead - stabbed.

PIRATES
Bill Jukes dead!

CECCO
The cabin is as black as a pit, but there is something terrible in there: the thing
you heard a-crowing.

HOOK
(Slowly)
Cecco, go back - and fetch me out that doodle-doo.

CECCO
(Unstrung)
No, Captain, no.
(He supplicates on his knees, but his master advances on him implacably.)

HOOK
(In his most syrupy voice)
Did you say you would go, Cecco?

CECCO
No, no! Please, Captain, don’t make me! All right! All right!
(CECCO goes. All listen. There is one screech, one crow.)

HOOK
‘Sdeath and oddsfish, will no one fetch me out that doodle-doo?
(No one steps forward)

STARKEY
(Injudiciously)
Wait till Cecco comes out.

#51 - Mutiny Music . . . ……. .

(The black looks of some others encourage him)

HOOK
I think I heard you volunteer, Starkey.

STARKEY
(Emphatically)
No, by thunder!
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HOOK
(In that syrupy voice which might be more engaging when accompanied by
his flute)
My hook thinks you did. I wonder if it would not be advisable, Starkey, to humour
the hook?

STARKEY
I’ll swing before I go in there.

PIRATES
Aye, aye. (etc.)

HOOK
(Gleaming)
Is it mutiny? Then Starkey is ringleader. Come on, Starkey! I want you to taste the
hook!

STARKEY
No! No!!

HOOK
Come on, Starkey! Shake hands, Starkey!
(STARKEY recoils from the claw. It follows him till he leaps overboard.)
Did any other gentlemen say mutiny?
(They indicate that they did not even know the late STARKEY.)
I’ll go in and fetch that doodle-doo meself.

#52 - Hook Takes Charge . . . ……. .

(With a lighted lantern in his hand, he enters the cabin. Not a sound is to
be heard now on the ship, HOOK staggers out.)

(HOOK)
(Unsteadily)
Something blew out the light.

NOODLER
(With dark meaning)
Some-thing?

PIRATE
What of Cecco?

HOOK
He’s as dead as Bill.
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(Panic amongst the PIRATES)

PIRATES
(General ad lib)
It’s Hook’s fault. He’s a devil. We’re doomed. The ship’s doomed. The devil’s
aboard. Aye, and he has a hook! (etc.)

(Knives and pistols come to hand. Hearing something like a cheer from the
BOYS, HOOK wheels around and his face brings them to their knees.)

NOODLER
Poor Cecco!

PIRATE
It’s Hook’s fault!

HOOK
Now lads, here is a notion: open the cabin door and drive them in. Let them fight
the doodle-doo. If they kill him we are so much the better; if he kills them we are
none the worse.

#53 - Boys Into Cabin . . . ……. .

(This masterly stroke restores their confidence; and the BOYS, affecting
fear, are driven into the cabin. Desperados though the PIRATES are, some
of them have been boys themselves, and all turn their backs to the cabin
and listen, with arms outstretched to it as if to ward off the horrors that
are being enacted there. The barrel shifts its position to keep near
WENDY.

Relieved by PETER of their manacles, and armed with such weapons as

they can lay their hands on, the boys steal out softly as snowflakes, and
under their captain's hushed order find hiding-places on the poop.)

(PETER is now disguised as a whiskered pirate and takes place with the
crew.)

PIRATE
The doodle-doo has killed them all!

NOODLER
The ship’s bewitched!
(They are snapping at HOOK again.)

HOOK
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The ship’s bewitched! There is a Jonah aboard.

PETER
(Advancing upon him)
Aye, it’s the man with a hook.

PIRATES
Aye, it’s the man with a hook.

HOOK
(Temporising)
No, lads, no, it is the girl.

PETER
Aye, aye, it’s the girl!

PIRATES
Aye, the girl!

HOOK
Never was luck on a pirate ship with a woman aboard.

PETER
No, no, not with a woman aboard.

PIRATES
A woman aboard!

HOOK
Take her to the plank!

PETER
To the plank!

#54 - Plank Music . . . ……. .

HOOK
(Jeering)
There is none can save you now, missy.

PETER
There is one.

HOOK
Who is that?
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PETER
(Casting off the disguise)
Peter Pan, the avenger!

#55 - Ship Fight . . . ……. .

(General fight scene in which all participate. The KANGAROO has boxing
gloves on and boxes several PIRATES.)

HOOK
Back, back, you mice! It’s Hook - do you like him?
(He lifts up MICHAEL with his claw and uses him as a buckler.

A terrible voice breaks in.)

PETER
Wait, boys! This man is mine!
(HOOK shakes MICHAEL off his claw as if he were a drop of water, and
these two antagonists face each other for their final bout. They measure
swords at arms’ length, make a sweeping motion with them, and bringing
the points to the deck rest their hands upon the hilts.)

HOOK
(Jeering)
So, Pan, this is all your doing!

PETER
Aye, Hook, it is all my doing!

HOOK
Proud and impudent youth, prepare to meet thy doom!

PETER
Dark and sinister man, have at thee!
(As they begin to duel, PETER flies about HOOK’s head and swoops down
on him. HOOK is unable to fight him properly.)

HOOK
It isn’t fair. I say it though it was my last breath! It isn’t fair. ‘Tis some fiend
fighting me. Pan! Who and what art thou?
(The children listen eagerly for the answer, none quite so eagerly as
WENDY)

PETER
(At a venture)
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I am youth! I am joy! I am freedom!

(Flies to topmost part of the rigging as BOYS cheer)

HOOK
If I am to die you’ll all die with me!
(Stung to madness)
I’ll light a bomb and blow up the ship!
(HOOK disappears, they know not where)

CHILDREN
Save us Peter, save us!
(PETER, alas, goes the wrong way, and HOOK returns, bomb in hand)

HOOK
In two minutes, the ship will be blown to pieces!

CHILDREN
Mercy! Mercy!

HOOK
Back! Back, you pewling spawn! I’ll show you now the road to dusty death!
(HOOK climbs the ladder to the poop deck)
There’ll be a holocaust of children! There’s something grand to the idea!
(HOOK reaches the poop where the CROCODILE is waiting for him.
HOOK screeches at the sight of it.)
Augghh! The croc! The croc!
(At this sight the greath heart of HOOK breaks. That not wholly unheroic
figure climbs onto the plank [sliding board] and makes his farewell
speech)
Pan - no words of mine can express me utter contempt for you.
(HOOK slides down the sliding board into the sea, followed by the
CROCODILE. There is an enormous as ALL cheer.

PETER throws the bomb overboard. Everyone holds their ears.

EXPLOSION! General rejoicing.)

CURTAIN
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ACT THREE

Scene 3

THE PATH IN THE WOODS

#56 - Crossover March . . . ……. .

KANGAROO comes on with bass drum.

LION is carrying PETER PAN flag.

OSTRICH carries an umbrella.

TWINS play flute and violin.

CHILDREN & BRAVES

YO-HO!

(Grunt)
YO-HO! YO-HO! YO-HO!

(Grunt)
(Grunt)
(LOST BOYS drag PIRATES on with long rope. BRAVE ONES carry
PETER on HOOK’s litter)

ALL
YO-HO! YO-HO!
THE WONDERFUL PETER PAN!

TIGER LILY
Peter Pan is the sun, the moon, and the stars!
(ALL cheer)
Peter Pan is a lump of delight!
(ALL cheer)
Peter Pan is the bravest and strongest of all boys!
(ALL cheer)

PETER
Yes, I know. I don’t say it to boast, but because I cannot tell a lie.

#57 - Crow Reprise . . . ……. .

(PETER)
I GOTTA CROW,
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ALL
(Crowing)

PETER
I’M JUST THE CLEVEREST FELLA
‘TWAS EVER MY FORTUNE TO KNOW.

ALL
(Crowing)

PETER
I GIVE THE SIGN AND THE SUNLIGHT WILL SHINE
AND THE FOREST WILL GROW,

ALL
OOOO!

PETER
AND THE RIVERS WILL FLOW,

ALL
OOOO!

PETER
I GOTTA CROW!
(Spoken)
Away with ‘em!
(ALL exit except LIZA)

LIZA
Oh, Peter, you’re the most wonderful boy in the whole world! Is there anything
you couldn’t do?

PETER
(Considers it)
Nothing.

LIZA
Peter, will you teach me how to crow?

PETER
Sure!
(Sings)
YOU DO IT TOO.
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LIZA
ME?

PETER
YES.
AND IF YOU DO
YOU WILL FIND SUCH UNUSUAL THINGS YOU CAN DO.

LIZA
(Tiny crow)
Erk.

PETER
YOU’RE GETTING WARM
BUT YOUR MOUTH SHOULD BE FORMING A HAPPIER
“ERK”

LIZA
(Timidly)
Erk.

PETER
(Encouragingly)
Erk.

LIZA
(Still shy)
Erk.

PETER
Aww…
(Sings)
DON’T BE SUCH A SISSY,
PRIM AND PRISSY,
LET OUT A CROW!
YOU’VE NOTHING TO FEAR,
COME AND WHISPER IT CLOSE TO MY EAR.
(LIZA crows timidly, then stronger, then loud)

PETER
That’s better!

PETER & LIZA

AND NOW WE CAN CROW
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(PETER & LIZA)

(Crow)
JUST LIKE A ROOSTER
WE’LL BE OUR OWN BOOSTER
AND LET OUT A CROW!
(Crow)
WE’LL GIVE THE PROUDEST
AND GAYEST AND LOUDEST
OF CROWS THAT WE KNOW

LIZA
(Squawks loudly)

PETER
EVERYBODY LET GO

LIZA
(Squawks loudly)

PETER & LIZA

AND CROW!
(THEY crow merrily until the number ends)

CURTAIN
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ACT THREE

Scene 4

THE DARLING NURSERY

It is the nursery again, only the toys are gone, and DR the fore part of a
doghouse can be seen. A green velvet chair has replaced the firestool.

#58 - Nursery Music . . . ……. .

MRS. DARLING is looking out the window. NANA is finishing turning

down WENDY’s bed.

MRS. DARLING
Oh, Nana, it touches my heart to see you turn down their beds night after night.
But they’ll never come back - never!
(NANA whimpers, then crosses to dog house and scratches)
No! Don’t disturb the mater. He uses your house as his home, out of remorse. I’ll
wake him when it’s time for his dinner.
(WENDY peeps in window, motions JOHN and MICHAEL in)

WENDY, JOHN & MICHAEL

TENDER SHEPHERD, TENDER SHEPHERD,
LET ME HELP YOU COUNT YOUR SHEEP.
ONE IN THE MEADOW, TWO IN THE GARDEN,
THREE IN THE NURSERY FAST ASLEEP.

(NANA finally sees them, nuzzles against MRS. DARLING and barks
excitedly)

MRS. DARLING
Wendy! Michael! John!

CHILDREN
Mother!
(THEY rush to her and embrace her. LIZA and the BOYS appear at the
window)

MR. DARLING
(As he emerges from the dog house on all fours)
A little less noise there, please, a little less noise!

MRS. DARLING
Father! The children have come home!
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CHILDREN
Father!

(THEY rush to him and embrace him, NANA following)

MR. DARLING
Michael! John! Wendy!
(LIZA and BOYS jump from the window sill into the room)

MRS. DARLING
Who are they?

WENDY
There are a few more of us. Won’t you adopt them?

MR. DARLING
What? All six of them?

WENDY
Please, father.

MRS. DARLING
George, don’t you think we could manage?

MR. DARLING
Well, what’s another six or seven?

BOYS
We’ll be good children.

#59 - Grow Up Reprise . . . ……. .

MR. DARLING
(Sings)
WILL YOU TREAT ME WITH RESPECT?

BOYS
YES, SIR!

MR. DARLING
LET ME HAVE A LITTLE PEACE AND QUIET?

BOYS
WE WILL ALWAYS TRY TO KEEP SO QUIET.
(Sung loudly)
QUIETER THAN MICE!
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MR. DARLING
(Spoken)
Well, wouldn’t that be nice!

BOYS
WE WILL GROW UP!

FAMILY
THEY WILL GROW UP!

BOYS
WE WILL MIND OUR P’S AND Q’S.

FAMILY
THEY WILL MIND THEIR P’S AND Q’S.

BOYS
WE WILL NEVER BE A BOTHER.

FAMILY
THEY WILL NEVER BE A BOTHER.

BOYS
AND WE’LL ALWAYS SHINE OUR SHOES.

MR. DARLING
(Spoken)
Oh, to think of all those shoes!

FAMILY
WE HAVE NO ROOM TO SPARE, IT’S TRUE,

MR. DARLING
BUT OH, WHAT OF IT, WE’LL PRETEND WE DO.

BOYS
WE’RE GOING TO GROW UP,

FAMILY
GOING TO GROW UP,

BOYS
GOING TO GROW U-P.

MR. DARLING
Like me!
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BOYS
Like I!

NANA
Woof! Woof!

BOYS
Like me!

MR. DARLING
Now make yourselves at home!
(ALL exit ad libbing, except WENDY, who goes to the window)

MR. DARLING
You won’t forget to come for me, Peter - please, please don’t forget!

THE LIGHTS FADE

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ACT THREE

Scene 5

THE NURSERY - MANY YEARS LATER

#60 - Spring Cleaning Time . ……. .

Music begins in darkness. Westminster chimes are heard to denote

passage of time.

Then PETER’s crow is heard offstage. Lights dim up on the nursery.

JANE is asleep in bed DR. WENDY (grown-up) is sewing by the fire.

PETER flies through the window. The music fades as he sees WENDY.

PETER
Hello, Wendy.

WENDY
Peter!

PETER
Where’s John?

WENDY
He’s not here now.

PETER
Is Michael asleep?

WENDY
Yes. No - that’s not Michael.

PETER
Is it a new one?

WENDY
Yes.

PETER
Boy or girl?

WENDY
It’s a girl.
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PETER
What’s her name?

WENDY
Jane.

PETER
Jane!

WENDY
Peter, are you expecting me to fly away with you?

PETER
Of course. That’s why I came. Have you forgotten it’s spring cleaning time?

WENDY
I can’t come. I’ve forgotten how to fly.

PETER
I’ll teach you again.

WENDY
Oh, no, Peter - don’t waste the fairy dust on me.

PETER
(Frightened and shrinking)
What is it?

WENDY
I’m old, Peter. I’m ever so much more than twenty. I grew up a long time ago.

PETER
You promised not to!

WENDY
I couldn’t help it. I’m a married woman now, Peter.

PETER
No! You’re not!

WENDY
Yes. And the little girl in the bed - is my child.

PETER
No, she’s not! She’s not!
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(HE sinks to his knees, sobbing. WENDY goes to PETER to comfort him,
but instead turns and runs from the room. JANE is awakened by his
sobbing)

JANE
Boy, why are you crying?

PETER
(Straightening and bowing)
Hello.

JANE
Hello.

PETER
I’m Peter Pan

JANE
Yes, I know.

PETER
I came to take my mother - back to Neverland.

JANE
Yes, I know. I’ve been waiting for you.

PETER
For me?

JANE
Yes. Will you teach me how to fly?

PETER
Do you know any stories?

JANE
I know lots of stories.

PETER
Will you tuck me in at night and mend my pockets for me?

JANE
Oh, yes, Peter! Take me with you.

#61 - Finale Ultimo . ……. .

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PETER
(Crows joyously)
First I must blow the fairy dust on you.
(HE does so)
Now think lovely, wonderful thoughts, and up you go!
(JANE flies from her bed to the mantlepiece)

JANE
How sweet!

PETER
She’s sweet! She’s sweet!

JANE
Look at me, Mummy! I’m flying!

PETER
She’s my mother! Come on, Jane!

WENDY
No! No!

JANE
It’s just for spring cleaning time. He wants me always to do his spring cleaning.

WENDY
Oh, if only I could go with you.

PETER
You can’t. You see, Wendy, you’re just too grown up. Are you ready, Jane?

JANE
Ready!

PETER
(Sings)
THEN COME WITH ME WHERE DREAMS ARE BORN,
AND TIME IS NEVER PLANNED.
JUST THINK OF LOVELY THINGS
AND YOUR HEART WILL FLY ON WINGS
FOREVER
IN NEVER NEVER LAND!

(PETER flies out the window, followed by JANE. WENDY stands looking
out the window after them.)
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CURTAIN

#62 - Bows . ……. .

#63 - Exit Music . ……. .