[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, spoken]

Lost! Good, interesting

[MISS JONES, spoken]

Yes...

[MISS BASSETT]

That I can use

[MISS JONES, spoken]

Good, right

[MISS BASSETT]

Is he lost in an emotional purgatory?

(spoken)

...or lost in an existential search for himself?

[MISS JONES, spoken]

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!