PETER PAN Act One SOMETHING IN THE AIR (Full Comany) CUE: A single heart-stoing moment as the audience are lunged into sudden darkness... Comany Piano 6 Allegro mysterioso q = c.140 ff Music: GEORGE STILES Lyrics: ANTHONY DREWE Strings (arco) a "smear" + mark-tree erhas the ic only "touches" each of these notes, while someone else sustains the melody 6 10 6 m 14 mf 1995-2009 The Music Trunk Publishing Comany
2 18 oco rall. 23 Nervously q = 140 some thing in the air to-night Some-thing in the breeze semre leggiero MRS. DARLING (off) "John!...Michael!...Wendy!" LONDONERS MEN ONLY? sotto voce There s 27 Whist ling round the chim-ney stacks Rust-ling through the trees 30 Some-thing in the air to night Does-n't feel like sring
3 34 The night-in-gales are sil - ent As if 37 told they should - n't sing oco rit. NEWSBOY: "Paer! Evening aer!" MEN & WOMEN m There s 39 A Temo q = 140 some thing in the air to - night Some-thing in each gust m 42 Some thing leaves us shiv-er - ing
4 45 mf 49 Some thing we don t trust There s some-thing in the air to-night That s marcato quick-en -ing our tread Some-thing makes us wor - ry, Some- 52 55 m oco rit. Safe thingmakesus hur - ry to our child - ren at home - ly in bed STORYTELLER: "All children, excet one, grow u."
5 58 Meno mosso "One day, when Wendy was two years old and she was laying in the garden, she lucked another flower and ran with it to her mother." q = c.120 simile "Mrs Darling ut her hand to her heart and cried out: Oh, Wendy, why can t you stay like this forever? That was all that assed between them on that subject" 64 70 "but, from that moment on, Wendy knew that she must grow u. You always know after you are two." PETER PAN: (Who we cannot see, but whose voice echoes round the auditorium ): "Two is the beginning of the end." m STORYTELLER There's 74 oco iù mosso q = 140 some thing in the air to night Some-thing in the dark
6 78 Shad -ows in an all-ey-way Voic-es in the ark 82 Some - thing feels fam - il - i ar - Some -thing weonce knew m 85 A mem-or-y is stirr ing But is stay-ing out of view
7 90 NEWSBOY: "Evening aer! Read all about it! Baby vanishes from its erambulator! Little baby disaears!" STORYTELLER: "London Town was strangely ill at ease that night. For Mr Darling though, hurrying home from work, 96 Con moto q = 160 his concerns were of a rather less sinister nature..." f f MR DARLING: "Sto - that - HAT!" 100 102
8 104 m Temo rimo q = 140 MR DARLING: "Thank you." STORYTELLER sub There s some thing in the air to - night m Mr. D 107 mf Chil-ly for the time of year Wind has got a bite Some thing in the breeze Mr. D 110 Whist ling round the chim - ney stacks I don't re - mem - ber see - ing stars 3
9 Mr. D Mr. D Mr. D 112 COMPANY 115 118 Burn - ing quite so bright Some-thing in the Rust-ling through the trees Some-thing in the air to - night air to-night Does-n't feel like sring The night-in gales Does-n t feel like sring - are sil - ent As if WOMEN mf m MEN - higher The MEN - lower mf night-in-gales are sil - ent m told they should-n t sing As if m The night-in-gales are sil - ent As if told they should-n t sing told they should-n t sing
10 Mr. D 122 mf 126 130 Ah f S A There s f T B There s Ah some -thing in the air to-night some-thing in the air to-night f Some-thing in each gust Ah Some -thing leaves us shiv-er- ing Some-thing in each gust Some thing leaves us shiv-er- ing Ah Some-thing we don t trust There s some-thing in the air to-night That s Some-thing we don t trust There s some-thing in the air to-night
11 134 quick-en - ing our tread Quick-en - ing our tread m Quick-en - ing our tread MEN mf Quick-en - ing our tread m Quick-en - ing our 137 tread m Quick-en-ing our tread Quick-en-ing our tread niente
12 141 Quick-en - ing our tread STORYTELLER: "Meanwhile, in the Darling family house, 144 in a backwater in Bloomsbury, there were all the outward manifestations of domestic normality, if only from the children..."