Finding Neverland - The World Is Upside Down

BARRIE
Welcome, my friends

BOYS
Mr. Barrie!

BARRIE
Glad you could join me on this most auspicious day

BOYS
Hip hip, hooray!

BARRIES
I hope you'll forgive
Mistakes and errors
We're just getting under way

BOYS
Of course! We understand

BARRIE
You may recognize some of the scenes
You all played a part in sowing the seeds
‘Cause there is magic here in my imagination
Just believe and it can be a creation
The stories we invented
All the fun that we found
Appearing here before your eyes
The world is upside down!

MISS BASSETT
Our characters

MISS JONES
Nibs and Tootles...?

MISS BASSETT
What is their motivation?
Because you see, I have to live and breathe my part, drawing from my own life experience...

BARRIE
Nibs is a lost boy

MISS BASSETT
Lost! Good, interesting

MISS JONES
Yes...

MISS BASSETT
That I can use

MISS JONES
Good, right

MISS BASSETT
Is he lost in an emotional purgatory?
...or lost in an existential search for himself?

MISS JONES
Yes!

BARRIE
No, he's just lost

MISS BASSETT
Good heavens! Where, when, and how?

BARRIE
Do you have experience being lost?

MISS BASSETT/MISS JONES
We're experiencing it now

MR. HENSHAW
Dogs!

MISS POTTER
Boys!

MR. CROMER
Flying!

MISS BASSETT
Lost!

FROHMAN
So...

ACTORS
Frustration!

BARRIE/BOYS
Believe and it can

ACTORS
No!

BARRIE/BOYS
Be a creation

MISS BASSETT
Actors don't fly...

MR. CROMER
Because actors could die!

BOYS
Start by saying I can do
And then you can try

MISS JONES
I can't

MISS POTTER
I won’t

MR. HENSHAW
Will not

MR. TURRIN
Not me

ACTORS
There is no magic in your imagination
I do not believe in your new creation
This disaster is all due to your play
This could be my last first day

MR. CROMER
Nauseous!

MISS POTTER
Anxious...

MR. HENSHAW
My reputation!

MISS BASSETT/MISS JONES
Playing lost?

ACTORS
Get lost! Serious actors cannot work this way!

FROHMAN
A positive start!

ACTORS
The world is upside down!