SCENE 1: The Darling Nursery

TINKER BELL: Hi everyone! I'm Tinker Bell. Before we get started…

(steps forward to examine the audience)
... can you understand what I'm saying?
(waits for an affirmative response)

Good. 'Cause most humans just hear bells when I talk.

(steps back, gestures to the stage)

This is the story of Peter Pan and a girl named Wendy who believed in him. It begins in the
Darling family nursery...

( Darling family home. WENDY stares out the window. MICHAEL and JOHN are in their
pajamas. NANA enters doing nighttime chores: pulling up bed sheets with her snout, putting
away toys with her paws, bringing MICHAEL a bedtime snack. And suddenly, TINKER BELL
is gone. WENDY turns to MICHAEL and JOHN, who duel with toy swords. JOHN has a hook
in his right hand.)

JOHN: Peter Pan, you insolent boy, I'll slash you to ribbons!

MICHAEL: I'll cut you to pieces!

JOHN: Scuttle my bones - I'll slit your gizzard!

WENDY: Peter, fly! Or Captain Hook will catch

(MICHAEL turns and runs from JOHN screaming at the top of his lungs. He overshoots and
runs straight into MR. DARLING, who enters in an undershirt and lifts MICHAEL.)

WENDY: He caught you!

MICHAEL: Unhand me, you old bilge rat!

MR. DARLING: Michael, how dare you call your father-

WENDY: Not you, Dad. Michael is Peter Pan, and John's Captain Hook.

MR. DARLING: Yes fine, now where are my shirt and cufflinks? Nana - do you know?

WENDY: You'll need to look at the treasure map the boys made to find it.

(NANA sniffs around for the cufflinks as MICHAEL takes a cloth map out of his pocket, lays it
down and smoothes it out.)
MR. DARLING: Let's see if I follow the line here... to the dotted line here... to the "x" marks
the
(lifts up the map, which turns out to be drawn on his shirt)

Oh no. Oh no, my shirt!

(ENTERING)

MRS. DARLING:George, this is no time to play with the children. We're late!

MR. DARLING: This was my last clean shirt! You are pirates!

JOHN (taking a headdress out of the toy box and putting it on his head)
I'm not a pirate. I'm an Indian now!

MICHAEL (takes out a clamshell bikini top)

I'm a mermaid!

(NANA sticks her head under a bed, barks and retrieves the cufflinks.)

MR. DARLING (claps his forehead into his hands)

Wendy, what kind of stories are you putting into these boys' heads?!

(gets cufflinks from NANA)

Thank you-ugh! They're all slobbery! Wendy, why were these cufflinks under the bed?

WENDY: That's where Peter Pan hid the pirates' treasure!

MR. DARLING: You and your ridiculous stories! Captain Crook. Peter Pirate.

WENDY: Peter Pan.

MR. DARLING: Pan-pirate-poppycock!

MRS. DARLING: Now, George

MR. DARLING (imitating MRS. DARLING)

"Now, George. Now, George!" (his own voice)

Now, George will have his say! Wendy, this is your last night sleeping in this room! What?!?

MR. DARLING: You need to be a proper lady! You can't rough-house with your brothers, and
you can't stuff their heads with silly stories. We will have some dignity in this house!

(turns abruptly and trips on NANA)

WENDY, JOHN, MICHAEL, MRS. DARLING: Argh!

 (attending to NANA)
Oh, no! Poor Nana!

MR. DARLING: Poor Nana? This is the last straw! Nana-out! For good!

WENDY, JOHN, MICHAEL: No!

MRS. DARLING: But George, the children love her.

MR. DARLING: And she loves them, but Nana isn't a proper nursemaid! She's not even
human!

(As MR. DARLING talks, NANA responds in Dog.)

MR. DARLING Don't look at me like that. It's nothing personal. It's just that-well, you're not
really a nurse at all. You're, well, a dog. And children aren't puppies, they're people. Sooner
or later, Nana, people need to grow up.

(MR. DARLING exits with NANA as MRS. DARLING tucks in the CHILDREN. She hands
MICHAEL a stuffed bear.)

WENDY:I don't want to grow up if it means being a proper lady.

MICHAEL: Dad's mean.

MRS. DARLING: Now, now - he loves you very much.

(MRS. DARLING moves to close the window.)

WENDY: Don't close the window. He might come back!

MRS. DARLING: Who?

WENDY: Peter. I found his shadow. He must have dropped it. He flies here each night from
Never Land, which is just past the second star to the right-

MRS. DARLING Wendy, no such place exists! Good night.

(exits the room)

(In the outside)

TINKERBELL: Now, Peter, now! The parents are gone! The kids are asleep! Nana's away!

It's time! Hurry!

(PETER ARRIVES. The sound of a pan flute signals PETER PAN-youth and fun and
adventure personified-as he appears from behind the moon with TINKER BELL. He wears
clothes that seem to be stitched together out of leaves. PETER flies down and alights on the
nursery windowsill then enters the room. TINKER BELL follows.)

PETER: Tink, do you see my shadow?

(TINKER BELL jingles.)

It's gotta be somewhere here. Hmm...

(TINKER BELL finds the shadow in the drawer and jingles to let PETER know. PETER
ignores her as he looks under beds and all around, even moving JOHN and MICHAEL's legs
and arms in his quest to find the shadow.)

You know, you used to be better at finding stuff like this. You used to be able find a Lost Boy
in no time!

(TINKER BELL, whose jingling has become louder and louder, finally turns to the audience.)

TINKER BELL: It can be incredibly frustrating trying to communicate with Peter when he
gets distracted!

PETER: Tink, why are you chattering so much!

(steps behind TINKER BELL to grab his shadow from the drawer)
I found it! I knew I'd find it quicker than you! Look how amazing my shadow. Now I just need
to attach it back. Get me some soap!

(PETER sits on Wendy's bed. TINKER BELL gets him soap then sits with her back to him,
peeved. PETER tries to put the shadow back on with soap. After a moment, WENDY sits
up.)

WENDY: Oh my gosh, it's you! I knew you were real! I knew it! I knew it!
I'm Wendy. Wendy Moira Angela Darling. You came back for your shadow, right? Wait - are
you trying to attach it with soap?!

(WENDY takes a needle and thread by her bed and sews his shadow back on PETER's
feet.)

WENDY: But wait-how'd you lose your shadow?

PETER: Girls talk a lot.

WENDY: Excuse me?

PETER: First of all, your nanny is a dog, so that's weird. And second, she attacked me while
I was floating outside and grabbed my shadow!

WENDY: Oh, Nana!

PETER: I come every night to listen to your stories.

WENDY: But my stories are all about you.

PETER: That's why I like 'em! I tell 'em to the Lost Boys. But I forget some of the details.

(notices his shadow intact) Wow. Look at how amazing I look with my shadow back!

(crows)

I crow when I'm happy

WENDY: Oh, Peter-I'm so unhappy. I have to grow up tomorrow and be a proper lady.

PETER: Grow up?

WENDY: Tomorrow I'm leaving the nursery - which means no more stories.

PETER: What? I won't have it! I'm taking you to Never Land! You'll never grow up there!

WENDY: But what would my mom say?

PETER: What's a mom?

WENDY: What's a mom? Someone who loves you and tells you stories-

Good, you can be our mom.

PETER

(WENDY wrinkles her nose-not so sure about this idea - then feels as though her hair has
been pulled.)

Stop it, Tink!

(PETER whispers in WENDY's ear while TINKER BELL addresses the audience.)

TINKER BELL: There's one more thing you should know. Although you see me as a
normal-sized girl, I'm really just a two-inch-tall fairy... which is why my voice sounds like bells
to most humans!

(TINKER BELL darts around the nursery as PETER points out her location. WENDY squints
in her attempt to locate TINKER BELL)

PETERLook, she's there. Now she's there.

TINKER BELL

(to audience)
Now, I really shouldn't have pulled Wendy's hair, but she was going to tell Peter more stories
about himself! Peter Pan is an excellent boy, but he can be very conceited!

(PETER crows again. Just 'cause. MICHAEL opens his eyes and sits up.)

MICHAEL: John, wake up! Peter Pan is here!

JOHN

(opens and can't believe his eyes)

Wow!

(sees TINKER BELL)

What's that?

WENDY: A fairy. One is born each time a baby laughs its first laugh.

(TINKER BELL jingles, irritated. She doesn't want WENDY to come.)

PETER: Tink, Wendy is my friend and she's coming with us!

WENDY

(to MICHAEL and JOHN)

Peter is going to take us to Never Land!

(MICHAEL and JOHN cheer. WENDY turns to PETER.)

But how will we get there?

PETER

We'll fly, of course. It's easy. All you have to do is… think on a wonderful thought.
(PETER steps off the windowsill. The CHILDREN wait for PETER to fall... but he doesn't!)

MICHAEL : I will think that I am an Indian

JOHN : I will think that I'm in a pirate's cave

WENDY: I will think that I am in a mermaids lagoon

(The CHILDREN jump off the bed and fall to the floor. MICHAEL lands on his butt.)

MICHAEL: Ouch
PETER: Hmmm, this won't do. What's the matter with you? All it takes is faith and trust. Oh-
and something I forgot: dust!

MICHAEL: Dust?

PETER: Yup. Just a little bit of pixie dust. Tinker Bell. Tink.... I order you!

(Reluctantly, TINKER BELL sprinkles some dust on the CHILDREN.)

(PETER jumps outside the window and floats.)

PETER: Okay, now you.

(WENDY stands on the windowsill-the threshold of believing.)

WENDY: Are you sure it will work?

PETER: Of course I'm sure.

(Wendy is about to jump, then:)

WENDY: I'm scared!

PETER: Believe!

(WENDY steps off and screams.)

MICHAEL, JOHN: Wendy!!!!

(Wendy rises slowly and relaxes in the air)

(MICHAEL and JOHN step to the windowsill holding hands, close their eyes, and jump! They
fly! They grab WENDY's hand as she reaches for PETER's hand. PETER takes hold and
leads.)

PETER: Never Land's just past the second star to the right, and straight on morning!