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SCENE 1
(As the song ends, the castaways slog onto the set, plop down on
rocks and other outcroppings, exhausted.)
EMMA: I can't believe we made it!
SOPHIE: I've never seen a storm like that!
CAPTAIN: Well, I've been a captain for twenty years, and I haven't
either!
OLIVIA: Did we all make it?
CAPTAIN: Pretty sure we did, but let me count! (Captain counts heads,
softly but audibly, one to eleven.) Ten! There were eleven of us
aboard the S.S. Mango! Who's missing?
(Everyone looks around anxiously, counting their friends.)
JESSICA: It looks like the passengers are all here. What about the crew?
CAPTAIN: Well that's just me and my first mate … (She suddenly realizes
that it's Billy who is missing.) Billy!
(Everyone looks around when no answer comes.)
LOGAN: Did anyone see him after the boat went down?
ALL: (ad lib, "I don't think so," "I didn't," "Maybe," etc.)
CAPTAIN: If something happened to him, I'll never forgive myself! I
couldn't have saved the S.S. Mango without him!
ALL: (ad lib, calling for Billy.)
(Billy tumbles on stage from the wings, then discovers the
castaways.)
BILLY: Oh, here you are!
CAPTAIN: Billy! You scared me! I thought we lost you! Where have you
been?
