Script

Audition Central: Disney's Peter Pan JR.

Script: John

SIDE 1

MR. DARLING
Oh, Nana.
(NANA hears something and barks. MR. DARLING sits up.)

MR. DARLING
Nana, what is it?
(WENDY, JOHN, and MICHAEL climb in one by one over the threshold, as MR. and MRS. DARLING try to take this in, speechless, then overjoyed.)

Wendy!

MRS. DARLING
Michael!

NANA
Arf!

WENDY, JOHN, MICHAEL
Hello!

MICHAEL
(looking around)
I ve been here before. I think.

JOHN
Michael, we re home.
(One big DARLING FAMILY embrace. The CHILDREN all look worse for the wear, like they ve been through a major battle& but also maybe like they ve been playing in the woods all night.)

MR. DARLING
It s three stories down! That was very irresponsible of you to climb the trellis!

WENDY
Peter Pan dropped us off here!

MRS. DARLING
And you re covered in dirt!

JOHN
From the pirate ship!

SIDE 2

MICHAEL
Mom! Tell us a story of Pan?

WENDY
Michael you don t think I m actually your mom?! John?

JOHN
Moms tell stories. You tell us stories. You must be our mother!

WENDY
But I ve just been playing! You have a real mom at home. Michael, John, you remember?

MICHAEL
Did she have silky ears and wear a fur coat?

WENDY
That was Nana!

CHUBBY
I think I had a mother once.

SKUNK
I once had a white rat.

WENDY
(sudden realization)
I think it s time we go home.

PETER
(as Indian)
No go home! Stay many moons! Have big fun time!

WENDY
Now, Peter  we ve got to be practical, and Indian braves don t even talk like that!
(to MICHAEL and JOHN)
Do you just want to stay here and grow up like savages?

MICHAEL, JOHN
(a gleeful answer)
Savages!

WENDY
You need a real mom.

SIDE 3

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 you!
(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 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!

MRS. DARLING
(entering)

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

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

SIDE 4

CUBBY
I wanna join!

RACCOON TWINS
Us too!

SKUNK
(like a cheerleader cheer)
Pi-rates forever! Lost Boys never!

WENDY
(overlapping)
Boys! Boys

SKUNK
Pi-rates forever! Lost Boys never!

WENDY
Skunk!

SKUNK
(stops his chant)
Sorry.

WENDY
Aren t you all ashamed of yourselves?

FOXY
Well, Captain Hook makes a very convincing case, Wendy.

HOP
We ll walk the plank if we don t become pirates!

JOHN
No, Peter will save us.

MICHAEL
Yeah!

WENDY
No, he won t. Peter thinks only of himself.

SIDE 5

CHIEF TIGER BAMBOO
(big pompous voice)
Greetings, People From Across the Ocean!

CHUBBY
Greetings!

CHIEF TIGER BAMBOO
For many moons, we Native Braves have fought with you Lost Boys!

HOP
True!

CHIEF TIGER BAMBOO
Sometimes you win. Sometimes we win!

SKUNK
Okay, you win this time. Turn us loose.

JOHN
Turn us loose? You mean, this is only a game?

CHIEF TIGER BAMBOO
(normal voice)
Yeah, and it sometimes feels a little ridiculous to talk like that.
(snaps back to the game with his pompous voice)
But there is one important thing: where have you have hidden Tiger Lily?

FOXY
What? We ain t got the Princess!

CHIEF TIGER BAMBOO
(normal voice)
Yes you do! Tell me. Or else!

SKUNK
Honest, we don t!

CHIEF TIGER BAMBOO
(pompous voice)
Then that is a big  People-From-Across-the-Ocean lie! If Tiger Lily is not back by sunset, Lost Boys get burned  at the stake!