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A Play by Rick Elice Based on the Novel
by Dave Barr and Ridle Pearson · Music
by
Wayne Barker Originally produced on Broadway by Nancy Nagel Gibbs, reg Shaffert, Eva Price, Tom Smedes, and Disney Theatrica Productions NE NT DeB
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PETER AND THE
STARCATCHER
PROLOGUE: A Bare Stage
(A COMPANY OF MEN enters with a puose, the BOY in the middle.) BOY
When I was a boy, I wished I could fl. PRENTISS
Me too SCOTT
So did I! BOY
Out the window and over the treesSMEE
- high as a cloud and lg hter than airMOL LY
(pushing through the men) then loop the loop and up to the stars! I dreamed about fling all the time.
o the looks om the men) What? Girs dream. BOY
Up to the stars I lke that. MOLLY
Me too
(A moment of connection between them, the rst of many) ASTER
Eventually of course, we dream other dreams PRENTISS
We change TED
We grow up. ASTER
It awas happens Nothing is forever. BOY
That's the rule.
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PETER
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STARCATCHER
SCOTT
- commanded by Leonard's old school chum, the legendary Robert Falcon ott. Captain of the W!
(A model of the Wasp appears and is passed briskly along to him.) Fastest ship loat Bound for the mote kingdom of Rundoon!
(SCOTT, now holding the Wasp beams with pride
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OTHERS applaud)
SLANK
(pushing through) And the other trunk, full o sand, courtesy o me Bill Slank, captain of this other shp-
(SOMEONE holds up a model of the everland) The Nerland.
(EVERYONE sco and groans as the unimpressive Neverland model is passed along) STACHE
The Nerland a slower shp SM EE
and long in the poop
(e everland model arrives in ALF's hands in time for: ALF
- a merchant shp, taking a longer route to Rundoon just to e safe SLANK
And whle noody's ookin'
(EVERYONE tus away occupied elshere) I'll just mark the Queen's trunk, the one sposed to go on the Wasp
(makes a chalk X on the top trunk) Then, at the last secSCOTT
ALL ASHORE HOS GOING ASHORE! SLANK -rn
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(smacks the chalk-marked trunk) Get this tru on board the Neverland y'garbage!
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SLANK k the silly cow in te Junor uite!
(Te SAILORS snigger.) Wat're you sniggern' at, ypicaroons?!? #3
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Put that trunk in my cabin!
(cracks his whip) Furrow the jib an' let fl y the frammstan, or youll curse the day you were bo!
(Te Nerland casts ofom the dockside) On to Rundoon, fungus! Theres profitable trade to be made n Rundoon!
(SAK laughs meanly Te SAILORS moan)
