Script
Audition Central: Disney's Peter Pan JR.
Script: Mr. Darling
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
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!