[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!