ACT I
SCENE 1
The Darling Family Nursery
Despite the best efforts of the dog/nurse Nana to get the three
children washed up and into bed, Wendy, John, and Michael manage
to evade her. Mrs. Darling joins the children for a friendly
dance around the nursery before Mr. Darling arrives on the scene.
Mr. Darling is repelled by Nana's shedding hairs and sends the nurse
outside to be chained for the night. Mrs. Darling confides in her
husband the fact that she saw a mysterious boy hovering at the nursery
window earlier that evening, and that she had captured his shadow
and hidden it under John's mattress.
Mr. Darling dismisses his
wife's fears of the mysterious boy's return,
even after the children
hear Nana's bark from the yard, warning of danger.
Mrs. Darling and the children sing their good-night song ("TENDER
SHEPHERD"), and the parents leave to attend a dinner party.
Once the parents have left, Peter
Pan follows his fairy friend, Tinkerbell,
into the nursery. He
finds his shadow but even his best efforts to
re-attach it are futile. His frustration wakes
Wendy, who introduces herself to the mysterious boy and sews his
shadow back on.
Peter, convinced that the re-attachment was due to his
own cleverness, sings an ode to himself
("I GOTTA CROW"). Wendy becomes
enthralled in his tales of Neverland, the magical place he calls home. Peter,
realizing Wendy's usefulness (pocket sewing,
story-telling, tucking
in at night), invites her to join him on a return flight, much to
the pertubation of his jealous fairy friend, Tinkerbell.
Wendy requests that her brothers be permitted to come along, and Peter
proceeds to teach the
three children the rudiments of flight, namely,
thinking lovely thoughts and a sprinkling of fairy
dust.
They all take flight, and head off to Neverland ("I'M FLYING").
SCENE 2
Neverland
Near the Lost Boys's Hideaway
The Lost Boys are playing an exhausting game of hide and seek,
when they hear someone fast approaching. They run and hide as the
Pirates enter with their ruthless leader,
Captain Hook ("PIRATE MARCH"). The
Captain admits his fear of
crocodiles to Smee, his first mate. Not of all crocodiles,
just one crocodile who bit off Hook's hand, swallowed a clock,
and spends the rest of his time looking to eat
the rest of him.
With the pirates accompanying him on
imaginary instruments, Hook unrips a plan to capture the Lost Boys and
their leader, his arch-nenesis, Peter Pan ("THE TANGO"). The crocodile
enters and sends the pirates fleeing for their lives.
After the
crocodile has passed, the beautiful and dangerous Tigerlily appears
with her gang of Blood Brothers, who also plot to capture
Peter Pan and the Lost Boys.
The Blood Brothers are frightened away by the appearance of a strange,
white bird high up in the sky. The bird is really Wendy, arriving
in Neverland with her brothers and Peter Pan. But, mistaking Wendy for
a bird (at Tinkerbell's suggestion),
Curly shoots
her down. Peter enters with John and Michael, distraught
at the murder
of Wendy. But Wendy wasn't really killed,
she's just asleep. So, the boys decide to build a house around her
("WENDY").
At the song's end, Wendy emerges from the house to
the boys's great pleasure.
Captian Hook and his pirates, who
have witnessed the entire affair from a hiding place in the bushes,
are sufficiently dismayed by Wendy's presence. Hook thinks of a new
plan to do away with Peter and the Lost Boys ("TARANTELLA").
SCENE 3
In the Forest of Neverland
Peter,
Wendy, John, Michael, and the Lost Boys are playing a game of house
with Peter and Wendy as their father and mother. Wendy leaves to go
home and start dinner, and Peter stays behind to teach the boys their
daily lesson, a vicious diatribe against puberty ("I WON'T GROW UP").
They are interrupted by the entrance of the pirates, sans Hook. The
boys run and hide, while Peter hides behind a tree.
The pirates
enter with Tigerlily as their prisoner. Peter impersonates Hook and
convinces
the pirates to set Tigerlily free. Tigerlily shakes hands with Peter
as she runs off, cementing a new allegiance between her gang and the
Lost Boys. Hook arrives and convinced that a spirit of the forest has spoken to his
men, speaks to Peter, who replies in a disguised voice and impersonates
a lady. Hook chases the apparent beautiful lady through the trees of
the forest in a ridiculous pantomime ("OH MY MYSTERIOUS LADY"), till he
and the pirates capture
and unmask Peter. Tigerlily and her gang enter, chasing the Pirates
offstage and freeing Peter.
ACT II
SCENE 1
In the Lost Boys's Hideaway
Wendy and the boys are waiting in the underground hideaway, still
playing house. They all run for weapons when the Blood Brothers enter their
home, but Peter rushes in and announces the new allegiance between
the two gangs. They all revel in a joyous celebration of friendship
("BLOOD BROTHERS"). The Blood
Brothers go back up to keep guard and
act as
lookouts. The boys reluctantly get ready for bed and Peter pulls a
lullabye out of his limited repertoire ("DISTANT MELODY").
This song was a poor choice on Peter's part, as it has made the
Darling children decide that they would like to leave Neverland and
go back with their real parents. Wendy assures the Lost Boys that her
parents would almost certainly adopt them all. Peter gives permission
for the boys to leave, and everyone's happy, until Peter announces
that he isn't going anywhere. Before leaving, Wendy
makes Peter
promise to take his medicine.
Wendy, Michael, John, and the Lost Boys all climb up
above the hideout and are all promptly ambushed and taken by the
pirates. Hook stays behind, as he has yet another cunning scheme to
do away with Peter.
Peter is asleep in the hideout, and Hook enters silently, poisons Peter's medicine, and exits as stealthily as he came. Tinkerbell, who has witnessed this entire affair, wakes Peter and tells him about how his entire gang has been captures by the pirates. Tinkerbell continues to warn him about the poisoned medicine, but Peter refuses to believe her. In a last-ditch attempt to save his life, Tinkerbell drinks the poison herself. But, due to the faith of children everywhere, Tinkerbell is brought back to life, better than ever. She and Peter leave to rescue Wendy and the boys.
SCENE 1B
On the Way to the Ship
Tigerlily and the Blood Brothers, looking worse for wear after the scuffle with the Pirates, are out in the woods when Peter arrives with Tinkerbell. The two leaders plan out a strategy to free the Lost Boys from the Pirates. They all exit to go to the ship.
SCENE 2
Onboard the Jolly Roger
As the pirates cower in fear of a crocodile,
Peter climbs over the side of the ship, carrying a noisy clock. When
the ticking stops, Hook sends Jukes,
one of his pirates, off to get the cat'o'ninetails which
they have
left in the ship's cabin. Jukes lets out a curdling screech, which is
followed by a sound that can only be likened to the crowing of a
rooster. Cecco, another pirate, peeks in to investigate and returns
bearing the news that Jukes is dead, stabbed to death.
Hook
sends Cecco back into the cabin to see what exactly is happening back
there. There is another curdling screech: another crow. Obviously
there is some kind of murderous rooster or doodle-doo inside of that
cabin. Hook tries to send Starkey, another of
his pirates, into the
cabin. When Starkey refuses, he is thrown overboard and Hook resolves
to fetch the doodle-doo himself.
Hook returns a moment later
with the news that Cecco has been stabbed to death as well. He sends
the boys in to investigate. The boys go in and realize that it is
Peter back there who has been killing the pirates.
One pirate concludes that all of the boys have been
killed, which leads another to conclude that the ship of bewitched by
some kind of rooster ghost. Peter Pan appears as the
avenger of youth and joy. Hook and Peter engage in the fight
of their lives; two
adversaries finally involved in a life and death battle from which
there can be only one victor. The Pirates are all thrown overboard,
except for Captain Hook, who, expressing
his distaste for Peter Pan for one final time, is sent
flying off
the plank, into the water and the eager jaws of the crocodile.
Tigerlily, Peter Pan, and the Lost Boys and Blood Brothers all
celebrate the victory ("I GOTTA CROW-
REPRISE").
SCENE 3
The Darling Family Nursery
Back in the nursery of the
Darling household, we behold a tragic scene. The
family remaining after the children took flight are
despondant over the childrens's long absence.
But lo! What light from yonder window breaks! Wendy, John, and Michael
return home ("TENDER SHEPHERD- REPRISE") with the Lost
Boys in tow. They convince Mr. Darling to adopt the boys,
who pledge to embrace
all that growing up entails ("WE WILL
GROW UP").
The scene
ends with Wendy making an impassioned plea to Peter not to forget
to come back and collect her again for next year's spring cleaning.
SCENE 4
The Darling Family Nursery
Many Years Later
This scene, more of an epilogue than a scene, takes place in the
Darling's
nursery, years after the occurrance of the events of the
previous scenes. Wendy,
as a grown-up, is in her childhood bedroom,
now a nursey for her own daughter, Jane. Peter appears, much to
Wendy's delight, and asks with curiosity who
the unfamiliar child is sleeping in Michael's bed. Wendy reveals that
it is her daughter. And the horrors don't end there. Wendy also
reveals that she is old now ("I'm ever so much more than twenty."),
and also that she is a married woman.
Peter, overcome with
grief, starts sobbing. Wendy leaves the room, Jane
wakes up and, in a scene reminiscent of Wendy's introduction to Peter,
comforts the sobbing boy. These two introduce themselves to one another
. Peter agrees to let Jane come to Neverland, after she assures him
that she knows lots of stories and is capable of tucking him in at
night and sewing pockets for him.
Jane is just ready to fly when Wendy re-enters and begs Peter to take her to Neverland as well. Peter explains that Jane is his new mother. Jane and Peter fly off to Neverland and to untold adventures ("NEVERLAND").