Scene 10 - The Neverland & the Wasp Flashcards
Narrator Boy -
The boy spins the ship’s wheel for everything he’s worth! (the Neverland bucks!)
Slank -
He’s changed our course!
Narrator Boy -
STRAIGHT FOR THE WASP!
Narrator Stache -
Wind 47 knots!
Narrators -
GALE WARNING!
Narrator Prentiss -
The ship’s wheel careens across the deck and spins out to sea -
Narrator Scott -
turning the Neverland hard against the grain -
Narrator Smee -
and jolting two people in a tiny cabin below!
(Alf and Mrs. Bumbrake, in her tiny cabin.)
Alf, Mrs. Bumbrake - (singing)
I’VE WAITED FOR LOVE,
I’VE WAITED FOR BLISS,
I’VE WAITED FOR THIS -
(Alf is about to kiss Mrs. Bumbrake, but she pushes him away)
Mrs. Bumbrake -
No! No more nattering. I’m still a Nana and I must find Molly. (Jolt! They stagger.) Spit me over, what was that?!
Alf -
We’re changin course is all - straight for the Isle of Love -
Mrs. Bumbrake -
But where’s my Molly? (Alf begins kissing up her arm.) She’s been lost ever so long. (Kiss, kiss kiss) Cease and desist, sir! (Suddenly stands up with a manly voice) HEY!! Cut the canoodling! I gotta grab the girl, get it!?!
(instantly all flirty again) But do come with.
Stache -
Neverland, HO! Victory is OURS! Well, mine!
All narrators -
WIND 63 KNOTS: HURRICANO! VIOLENT STORM! VISIBILITY GONE! WHOLE WAVES! BLACK SKIES! RED OVER WHITE OVER RED!
Narrator Mack -
Two ships make toward each other, tiny craft against the bounding main.
(A long shot of the open sea. Two crews assemble behind two captains, steering two tiny ships and two similar trunks toward a moment of reckoning. Stache and his pirates, with the sand trunk on the Wasp, behave like Brittish twits.)
Stache -
Lordy, lordy - just in time for tea.
Pirate Bumbrake -
Scones from Fortnum’s!
Narrator Prentiss -
Wind 67 knots! That’s 200 miles - Everybody!
All Narrators -
THAT’S 200 MILES PER HOUR! LARGE WAVES OVER 50 FEET! DISASTER! DESTRUCTION! DEVASTATION!
(Molly & Mrs. Bumbrake struggle with the Queen’s trunk)
Molly -
We’re saving the trunk, and that’s all there is to it!
(Slank appears out of nowhere)
Slank -
Oi! You really missed the gravy boat, Betty - you and her sea green eyes.
Mrs. Bumbrake -
Don’t let him smell your fear, Molly!
(to Slank, outraged on behalf of her eye color) And they’re hazel!
(calling off urgently)
ALF! LEND A HAND!
(Slank & Mrs. Bumbrake battle for the trunk. Alf enters and stands up to his boss)
Alf -
(throws Slank overboard and hollers as Slank sinks into the water)
Ye good fer nothing bucket o’ scum!
Mrs. Bumbrake -
My white knight!!
Molly -
There’s an island, Peter! Ride the trunk to the island!
(Molly pushes the trunk overboard)
Aster -
Molly, no!!!!
(tempest-tossed by the terrible storm, everyone prepares to abandon ship)
All - (singing)
CRACK & RIP AND CRACK AGAIN! SOAKED BY SEA AND SOAKED BY RAIN! SOON, WE PRAY, THE STORM BE DONE, AND WHEN IT’S DONE PRAY YOU SEE THE SUN!
(from out the sea-spray, Alf clings to Mrs. Bumbrake.)
Alf -
GRAB THE SPAR, MRS. BUMBRAKE, GRAB THE SPAR!!
Mrs. Bumbrake -
WHAT’S A SPAR??
Alf -
THIS IS NO TIME TO ARGUE, AND WE CAN’T STAY WHERE WE ARE!
Mrs. Bumbrake -
OH, THE WIND IS LIKE A WHIP!
Alf -
TAKE ME HAND! ABANDON SHIP!
Mrs. Bumbrake -
BUT MY MOLLY, OH MY MOLLY! WHAT A BLOODY AWFUL TRIP!
(Alf & Mrs. Bumbrake jump!)
Ted -
I WAS THINKING WE COULD MAYBE WAIT FOR SLIGHTLY BETTER WEATHER!
ALL -
THE NEVERLAND HAS COME APART! SCREW YOUR COURAGE, STEEL YOUR HEART!
Molly -
SOMEWHERE OUT THERE, SEARCH FOR HIM! DIVE, MOLLY ASTER, AND SWIM!
ALL -
SWIM ON AGAINST THE CURRENT,
SWIM ON AGAINST THE SEA,
THO’ THE TIDE MAY TURN AGAINST US, THO’ TOO STRONG THE TIDE MAY BE, THO’ EACH STROKE, EACH STROKE GROWS HEAVY, THO’ EACH BREATH IS AGONY, WE TRY, ‘TIL WE CAN BREATHE NO MORE. TO CLAMBER UP THE NEAREST SHORE, AND FALL UPON OUR KNEES BEFORE THE TRUTH THAT SETS US FREE -
Molly -
Get to the island, Peter! And don’t let that trunk out of your sight!!
ALL -
