SCENE 1 Bedtime AT RISE: It's evening. The Darling children are playing before bedtime. Wendy and John are ‘playing a game of "Keep Away” with Michael's stuffed dog, Nana. They are tossing her up and ‘down on a billowing blanket or sheet. It's all in good fun. There might be a simple fort of blankets they ve created. JOHN Ruff! Ruff! (Making the sound of a dog barking.) MICHAEL Give her to me! WENDY Look! Nana’s flying! MICHAEL Dogs don't fly! WENDY This one does! MICHAEL Give her to me! JOHN Say pretty please. MICHAEL Pretty please. (Continues to toss Nana) WENDY With sugar on top. MICHAEL With sugar on top. WENDY Okay. Here's your sly pup. (Finally gives the dog to Michael)MICHAEL (Holding the stuffed dog close.) Don't worry. won't let them hurt you, Nana. JOHN We would never hurt Nana, WENDY (Moving in close to stuffed dog to apologize.) It's true. We're sorry Nana. MICHAEL (Makes growing dog sound for Nana) Gr. (They all laugh. This playful banter was good-humored fun.) WENDY Alright everyone. Enough playing. It's time for bed. MICHAEL But I'm not tired at all. (yawning) WENDY know. But I promised Mother and Father we would go sleep at a reasonable hour. JOHN ‘Oh, Wendy, you're no fun. WENDY Well, 'm the oldest and I say it's time for bed. JOHN ‘Aye! Aye! Captain. (Saluting his sister) (They prepare blankets and pillows for sleep.) MICHAEL It’s fun to sleep on the playroom floor. It's ike camping. JOHN What do you know of camping? MICHAEL Well, I've read a book about it. JOHN Reading is not the same as knowing, MICHAEL Tknow it's not. JOHN Maybe someday we can go camping, and sleep in a real tent,MICHAEL Or under the stars! WENDY Let's pretend we're camping tonight. It will be like an adventure. Come now. Let's imagine we are somewhere far away. (They prepare for bed. Perhaps snuggling with blankets and pillows.) MICHAEL Wendy, will you sing us @ song before bed? WENDY Of course, I will. (Boys sit up to hear Wendy's song. She might be sitting with them or preparing the tent of Blankets.) WENDY'S LULLABY To the tune of Irish Lullaby (Song In the Public Domain) Too-ra-loc-ra-oo-ral Too-ra-loo-raii Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral Hush now close your eyes. Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral Too-ra-loo-ravli Too-ra-loc-ra-loo-ral In our dreams, we'll fy (Consider having boys join in the second verse or repeat the song with ail three kids singing.) JOHN Goodnight Wendy. WENDY Goodnight John. MICHAEL Hey! What about me? JOHN AND WENDY (Gogling) Goodnight Michael. SCENE CHANGE: The children fall asleep. Lights change. Perhaps some magical music or ‘chimes. Peter enters. After a while of searching for his shadow, he finds it. The shadow can be ‘imaginary. He cries softly as he tries to get his shadow to stick on.SCENE 2 Peter and Tinkerbell WENDY Boy, why are you crying? PETER Tm not crying. WENDY Well, you seem awfully sad, PETER That's because I can't get my shadow to stick on. WENDY It’s come off? PETER Yes. WENDY can help you. Would you like me to sew it back on? PETER You'd do that for me? WENDY Certainly, Let me get my needle and thread. (She grabs a needle and thread, perhaps from a pin cushion or a Iitle sewing basket. As she sews...) PETER What is your name? WENDY Wendy Moira Angela Darling. What's yours? PETER Peter Pan. WENDY Is that all? PETER Yes. That's my name.WENDY Where do you live? PETER (Pointing out into the distance.) Second star on the right and straight on till morning WENDY That's a funny address, PETER No, it's not. WENDY (Finishes the sewing.) There we go. All done. PETER Wendy, look! Oh the cleverness of me! (He crows like a rooster.) WENDY You're welcome! (sarcastically) PETER How thoughtless of me. Thank you for sewing on my shadow. WENDY It’s a very nice shadow. PETER ve had it for years. WENDY Peter, how old are you? PETER I don’t know. I ran away the day I was born. WENDY Ran away? Why did you do that? PETER Because I heard my parents talking about what I would become when I grew up. But I don't want to grow up. I want to stay a child forever. So I ran away to live among the fairies. WENDY You know fairies? PETER Well, just one really. Tinkerbell.WENDY Tinkerbell? PETER Yes. She's around here somewhere. WENDY In this very room? PETER Of course. She goes everywhere with me. Where are you Tink? ‘TINKERBELL Here I am. (Appearing) WENDY Itis an honor to meet you Tinkerbell, ‘TINKERBELL Likewise, I'm sure. WENDY ‘A world with fairies? Where is this place you live? ‘TINKERBELL We live in Neverland with the Lost Kids. WENDY What are Lost Kids? PETER ‘They are the children who fall out of their prams when no one is looking. If they are not claimed in seven days, they are sent to Neverland. I'm Captain, ‘TINKERBELL Peter we've got to go! WENDY Oh, please don't go. I can sing you songs and tell you stories. PETER You could come with us. TINKERBELL I don't think she can fly, PETER IW teach her.WENDY What about my brothers? PETER Til teach them too. WENDY Really? PETER OF course! The more the merrier. WENDY (Gently waking them) John, Michael, wake up! It's time for an adventure. JOHN ‘Adventure? I’m awake! MICHAEL, But I just fell asleep, WENDY Youtl want to wake up for this. Peter Pan and Tinkerbell are going to teach us to fly and take Us to Nevertand, JOHN Neverland? Where is that? PETER (Pointing again.) Second star to the right and straight on tll morning. MICHAEL, I must be dreaming. PETER If you want to fly, just think lovely thoughts. WENDY Lovely thoughts? PETER Yes, and they will ift you into the air. (They all cose their eyes and think lovely thoughts, but nothing is happening) WENDY Tm thinking of flowers. JOHN Tm thinking of books.MICHAEL ‘Tm thinking of candy. (The children wait a moment, then open their eyes and look at each other.) WENDY Its not working. PETER Silly me. I forgot something. Tinkerbell, we need to sing and blow falry dust on them first. (This song can be sung first by Peter and/or Tinkerbell and then again with all the kids. Add ‘simple choreography. One idea would be to use the bedding so each child can fly offstage with theirs billowing behind. Or, you might create a shadow puppet show of them fying behind a sheet.) FLYING To the tune of Sailing, Sailing (Song in the Public Domain) Flying, flying, ‘Through the sky at night ‘ver the moon and back again ‘When stars are shining bright! Frying, flying, Through the sky at night Straight on "til morning ‘Second star to the right! (Once they have sung and have fairy dust sprinkled on them, they can ‘fy’ off stage.) TINKERBELL ‘You're fiying! Wait for me! SCENE CHANGE: Consider instrumental music or the sound of birds chirping. Clear the Playroom and establish Neverland. It's morning. Perhaps the Lost Kids enter with billowing ‘sheets as the others exit.SCENE 3 Neverland (it's early morning and the Lost Kids are playing the same sort of keep-away game that the Darling siblings were playing at the beginning. The stuffed bear belongs to Curly. Its name Is Barrie, as an homage to 1.M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan.) TOOTLES Grrr! Grrr! (Making the sound for the stuffed bear. Teasing, then tossing the stuffed bear to ‘Nibs. Curly isin the middle. They are playing keep-away.) NIBS Come and get it! (Catching the stuffed bear, then tassing it back to Tootles.) CURLY Give it to me. TOOTLES Say pretty please. CURLY Pretty please. (Tootles tosses it back to Nibs) NIBS With sugar on top. CURLY With sugar on top. NIBS Fine! Here's your bear. CURLY (Holding the stuffed bear close. Speaking to the bear.) Don't worry Barrie, I won't let them hurt you. (The name Barre is an homage to J.M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan) TOOTLES ‘We're just playing, Curly. NIBS ‘That's right. When Peter's away, the kids will play. TOOTLES Speaking of Peter, where is he? CURLY He said he'd be back by morning.NIBs Well it's morning and he’s not here. TOOTLES You know Peter. He's always flying around and stirring up mischief. CURLY Let’s ust hope he didn’t get into any mischief with the pirates. TOOTLES ‘Shhhht Don't mention the P-I-R-A-T-E-S. (spells out pirates) NIBS “The last thing we need is those buccaneers nosing around here. (Pirates heard singing and grumbling off stage.) ‘TOOTLES, NIBS, CURLY Pirates! Hide! (Lost kids hide.) (Pirates enter singing. Perhaps they move in 2 comical line, do simple choreography, or create @ tableau. Noodles carries a pirate spygiass and Starkey carries a rolled-up treasure map.) PIRATE SONG To the tune of Drunken Sailor (Song in the Public Domain) What shall we do with Jolly Roger What shall we do with the Jolly Roger What shall we do with the Jolly Roger Earl eye in the mornin’! Way hey and up she rises Way hey and up she rises Way hey and up she rises Earl eye in the mornin’! (Pirates end the song with a flourish and pose. They are now looking for the Lost Kids.) ‘SMEE Tm sure I heard those Lost Kids around here somewhere. ‘STARKEY Me too! NOODLES Me three!SMEE (Ordering Starkey and Noodles to go in opposite directions.) (lo Starkey) You go that way! (To Noodles) You go that way! What do you see Starkey? STARKEY see the sea SMEE What do you see Noodles? (Captain Hook comes right up to Noodles) NOODLES I see the Captain, (Noodles is looking through the spyglass even though Captain Hook is very close.) SMEE Which captain? NOODLES Captain Hook. SMEE Captain Hook? (3 Pirates fumble around and then line up, at attention, saluting Captain Hook) CAPTAIN HOOK You bumble heads! Where is Peter Pan? SMEE I don’t know sir. CAPTAIN HOOK You don't know? SMEE No sir. CAPTAIN HOOK ‘Then why are we here Smee? SMEE We heard the sounds of children laughing. CAPTAIN HOOK This is no laughing matter, Smee. SMEE No sir.CAPTAIN HOOK We are looking for those Lost Kids because I want their Captain, Peter Pan! He's the one who cut off my hand and fed it to a crocodile. (holds up hook) ‘STARKEY ‘Ouch. That must have hurt. CAPTAIN HOOK OF course it did, you fool, NOODLES like your hook, Captain. Its shiny. CAPTAIN HOOK I don't need compliments Noodles. I need revenge! NOODLES Yes, sir. Revenge! CAPTAIN HOOK Back to the ship! I'm getting hungry and I need a snack. ‘SMEE Good idea, Captain. STARKEY and NOODLES (adlibs) Me too. I'm starving. CAPTAIN HOOK No one gets a snack until I get Peter Pan! PIRATES ‘Aye, aye, Captain! PIRATE SONG REPRISE Let's head back to the Jolly Roger Let's head back to the Jolly Roger Let's head back to the Jolly Roger Earl eye in the mornin’! Way hey and up she rises Way hey and up she rises Way hey and up she rises Earl eye in the momin’! (Prates exit with gusto.) (Lost kids sneak out of hiding.)TOOTLES ‘That was close. NIBS ‘That was scary. CURLY ‘We've got to warn Peter. (Enter Peter) PETER PAN Did someone say my name? (Crows) LOST KIDS Peter Pan! PETER PAN At your service. (Bons dramatically) TOOTLES Peter! The Pirates were here. NIBS Captain Hook is coming for you. CURLY You've got to hide. PETER PAN Twill do no such thing. I've brought my new friends to Neverland. We need to show them our hospitality. TOOTLES I don’t see anyone. PETER PAN Tink was helping them land. Here they come now. (Tinkerbell and the children enter.) TINKERBELL Allow me to introduce John, Michael, and Wendy Darling. (Children bow as Tinkerbell introduces them.) PETER PAN Please make them feel welcome. (Lost kids do sily, yet inappropriate greetings of raspberries, sticking their tongues out, etc.)WENDY Well, that was the strangest greeting I've ever received. JOHN liked it. MICHAEL Me too. WENDY Peter, who are your friends? PETER How rude of me. Allow me to introduce you. This is Tootles, Nibs, and Curly. (Each bow in their own way as they are introduced.) WENDY Is that really what your parents named you? (To all three Last Kids) TOOTLES don't know. I never met my parents. NIBs ike to think Nibs is short for Nathaniel Ignatius Barnaby Smith. But everyone just calls me Nibs. CURLY They call me Curly because, well. I don't know. (The line can be funny whether or not the actor has curly hair.) TOOTLES Enough chit-chat. Captain Hook Is really mad. JOHN Why is that? NIBs Peter cut off his hand. WENDY Peter, that is awful! You should be ashamed of yourself. PETER It was an accident. Well, not exactly an accident. We were having a duel and well. that’s what happens when you play with swords. WENDY If Twere in charge, there would be no swords. And I would make sure you were all being safe ‘and making good choices.TOOTLES Being safe? NIBS Making good choices? CURLY Why? WENDY Because I care about you and want what's best for you. PETER Really? You care about us? WENDY Yes. TOOTLES ‘That's so nice. NIBS Nobody has ever cared about us before. CURLY I think you should stay here forever. WENDY ‘That's lovely, but we need to be going. Our parents will start worrying about us soon. PETER But I want you to stay in Neverland and be Lost Kids just like us. JOHN ‘That sounds fun! MICHAEL Yes! I want to stay a child forever. WENDY No. We must go home soon. TOOTLES At least have @ proper meal with us. JOHN 1 amgetting hungry.MICHAEL, Me too. WENDY Well, we wouldn't want to be rude, NIBS So youll stay? WENDY Just for one meal. CURLY ‘And then forever? WENDY You're sweet Curly. (Curly is flattered.) JOHN ‘What's for breakfast? TOOTLES: Maybe pancakes. They are the best for throwing. JOHN Throwing? NIBS (Or maybe pudding. It makes such a nice splat! JOHN T thought we were having breakfast. ‘CURLY What good Is breakfast without a food fight? MICHAEL, Food fight? PETER Of course. We always have a good food fight after every meal, MICHAEL, love Neverland! TINKERBELL ‘Come on, everyone! Let's eat! (They all exit. As they exit, Michael must drop Nana, leaving her behind on stage.)(Smee, Noodles, and Starkey re-enter.) MEE (Stops, looks around) This place looks familia. (All looking up) Sky. (All looking down) Ground. (All looking at the dog) Dog. STARKEY Look at that cute little pup. (Crosses to the dog, picks it up, and hugs i.) Ive always wanted a dog. NOODLES Me too. Maybe it can be our mascot on the Jolly Roger. STARKEY If we make it back to the ship alive. I'm starving. NOODLES Me too. STARKEY T could really use a snack. SMEE ‘You heard the Captain. If we ever want to eat again, we've got to find Peter Pan. STARKEY Even if we found him, how would we get him back to the ship? NOODLES ‘That Peter Pan is a tricky one. STARKEY I don’t know. It might take a miracle. (Michael and Wendy's voices from offstage. Pirates freeze and listen.) MICHAEL Wendy, I can’t find Nana. WENDY Don’t worry Michael, 11I go find her. SMEE What was that? STARKEY Sounds like kids.NOODLES Quick! Hide! (Pirates hide) (Wendy enters and looks for the stuffed dog.) WENDY Where are you, Nana? (Pirates appear and surprise Wendy. They keep the dog hidden at first.) Oh, hello, Who are you? ‘SMEE Who are you? WENDY Tasked first. ‘SMEE T'm Smee. STARKEY Tm Starkey. NOODLES Tm Noodles. WENDY Hello, I’m Wendy. ‘SMEE ‘Are you a Lost Kid? WENDY No, Im a guest. My friend Peter brought me and my brothers here for a visit. ‘STARKEY Peter Pan? WENDY Yes. Do you know him? ‘STARKEY You could say that.WENDY It's nice to meet you both, but I've got to hurry and find my brother's stuffed dog and then head back. We're having breakfast. NOODLES Breakfast? (dreamy and hungry) MEE (To Wendy) Wait just a minute! (Pulling Starkey and Noodles aside) If we take the git! back to the ship, Peter Pan will come looking for her. And you know what that means, STARKEY The Captain will get his wish. ‘SMEE And we will get our..? NOODLES (realzation) Snacks. ‘SMEE (Oh Wendy, is this what you were looking for? (Grabbing the dog from whoever has it and showing Wendy.) WENDY Oh, there you are, Nana! (She reaches for It, but Smee pulls it away) SMEE "Not so fast! If you want this dog you'll have to come with us. (Starkey and Noodles take Wendy by the arms. Wendy screams, but they shush her and lead her off stage. Smee tosses the dog to the ground, and they all exit.) (Enter Tinkerbel) ‘TINKERBELL ‘Wendy, where are you? You're going to miss the food fight. (Spies dog on the ground) What's this? (Picks up Nana) Oh no! The pirates must have taken Wendy! T've got to tell Peter! (Tinkerbell exits) SCENE CHANGE: Consider instrumental music or sounds of the ocean. Perhaps the sheets or blankets from previous scenes become the sails or the water. Its possible that some of the pirates ‘create’ the ship as part of the scene change. They could even sing the pirate song again as they set up. You might use benches or stage blocks to represent the bow of the ship.SCENE 4 ‘The Pirate Ship (Pirates bring Wendy to the ship and present her to Captain Hook.) CAPTAIN HOOK Well, well, well. What do we have here? ‘SMEE Its a girl. CAPTAIN HOOK can see that you bumble head. STARKEY Her name is Wendy. CAPTAIN HOOK And... NOODLES ‘And she's a friend of Peter Pan. CAPTAIN HOOK Peter Pan? ‘SMEE You know what that means! CAPTAIN HOOK Revenge will be mine! WENDY Peter is my friend and when he realizes I'm gone he'll come and rescue me. CAPTAIN HOOK ‘That's just wonderful. I always welcome a visit from Pan the Man. WENDY It's very rude of you to capture me like this. CAPTAIN HOOK Well, it was rude of him to cut off my hand. WENDY ‘That was an accident. Besides, you shouldn't have been playing with swords. ‘SMEE That's funny.CAPTAIN HOOK No, its not. ‘MEE You're right. It's not. CAPTAIN HOOK ‘Just wait until T get my hands... I mean my hook on that lad. STARKEY Captain, can we have a snack now? CAPTAIN No! First, you must swab the decks. I want this boat to be in ship shape when I make Peter Pan walk the plank. PIRATES Aye, aye, Captain! (Pirates sing this sea shanty and then swab the decks. Captain Hook guards Wendy.) SAILING, SAILING (To the tune of Sailing, Sailing, a song in the public domain) Sailing, sailing, Far from Neverland A pirate’ life is really fun ur captain lost his hand Sailing, sailing, Far from Neverland We steer the ship and swab the decks And search for Peter Pan (Repeat if you need more time, or even write more verses) (The pirates continue to clean the ship. Peter, Tinkerbell, Lost Kids, John, and Michael all sneak ‘in, They are not yet visible to the pirates) ‘TINKERBELL There she is! (Whispering. Pointing to Wendy) PETER ‘There he's! (Whispering. Pointing to Captain Hook) All right everyone, do you remember our plan? (il nod) (The plan is for everyone to board the ship when Peter calls for them.) (Peter jumps onto the sip, hopefully at a high level above all the pirates.)PETER Hello, Hook! CAPTAIN HOOK Peter Pant PETER That's me! CAPTAIN HOOK knew you'd come looking for your friend. PETER Let her go, Hook! CAPTAIN HOOK ‘Not until I get what I want. PETER ‘And what's that? CAPTAIN HOOK I want to see you walk the plank. PETER Never. CAPTAIN HOOK Then she stays with us here on the Jolly Roger. PETER You don't deserve someone as wonderful as Wendy. CAPTAIN HOOK I don't care about the git I just want to see you suffer. PETER ‘Then let's fight fair and square. CAPTAIN HOOK Draw your weapon. PIRATES (chanting) Fight, fight, fight. WENDY No! Please don't fight. CAPTAIN HOOKWENDY This has been quite an adventure, but we can't stay in Neverland. PETER Why not? WENDY Because this isn't our home, Peter. PETER Will you come to visit? WENDY Of course, we will PETER Then you may go home. But firs, let's sing a song and sail on til morning, (All kids cheer and sing) ‘SAILING SONG REPRISE sailing, sailing ‘The seas of Neverland ‘Around the moon and back again What a merry band Sailing, sailing ‘The seas of Never Land Straight on ‘til moming With our friend Peter Pan CURTAIN