Act II

              Toby wakes from his stupor and calls out for the missing
        Top Gallant.  Toby remembers his father's words (DO
        YOU SEE THE STARS).
      

              Susanna departs the Jack Rose Tap with her payoff for
        stealing Top Gallant.  Swain Dawkins espies the ship model. 
        Before he can heist it, Toby stealthily enters, steals Top
        Gallant, and a drunken Dawkins nearly shoots a blind-sided
        Captain Mardocke.  Toby descends a trellis, encountering
        Nick, who is searching for Susanna.  Nick gives Toby a
        gunnysack to keep Top Gallant safe from Mardocke's thieves.  
        They go their separate paths (THE MOON IS HIGH).
      

              In Captain Mardocke's quarters, Susanna accuses
        Mardocke of committing deadly harm against Toby's father. 
        She draws her knife.  Mardocke claws the knife away,
        shoving it to Sparrow.  Susanna is hustled away.  In a rage,
        Mardocke bribes Winslow's two town constables to find Toby
        (TOP GALLANT WILL BE MINE REPRISE (I)).
      

              Susanna, captive in a shuttered, determines to rebel
        against Captain Mardocke's schemes (TELL ME).
      

              Cecilia hosts a glittering ball (GOOD DAY, CECILIA!
        REPRISE / SWEET MELODY).  A surprise guest,
        Pierceton Asheley, Cecilia's father, enters and demands to
        know Toby’s whereabouts.  An alarmed Mayor Risello and
        party-goers interrupt (MASSACHUSETTS YANKEE).  Toby
        bursts in, chased by the town constables and Sparrow. 
        Townspeople renew a bidding war for Toby.  Pierceton
        expresses outrage.  Order is restored when it is rumored a
        model of Top Gallant is in Toby's gunnysack.  The bag is
        opened, but Top Gallant is missing.  Toby is accused by a
        vengeful Sparrow of stealing Susanna's knife.  Desperately
        grabbing the knife, Toby dashes away, pursued by townspeople. 
      

              By the island spit, Susanna protests Nick's advances
        (DON'T PRETEND, LET'S SUPPOSE).  Captain
        Mardocke enters and captures Nick.  Mardocke rewards a
        stunned Susanna with a fine necklace.  Nick accuses
        Susanna of setting him up to be shanghaied.
      

              Townspeople chase Toby (ISLAND PURSUIT). 
        Captain Mardocke's ship Black Bess swings into view. 
        Toby and Mardocke, at cross purposes, implore the
        heavens (I WISH I HAD A FATHER REPRISE / TOP
        GALLANT THEME REPRISE (I)).  Toby leaps out of
        sight onto Black Bess.  Mardocke orders a desperate
        attempt to find Top Gallant (TOP GALLANT WILL BE
        MINE REPRISE (II)).  The sailors mutiny.  Mardocke and
        his crew run off in pursuit.  Toby hears his father's voice
        (WHEN YOU REACH FOR THE SUN).  Susanna enters to
        warn Toby something terrible has happened to his father. 
        Toby protests he has just heard from his father (WHERE
        YOU ARE).  
      

              Captain Mardocke surprises the two.  After a chase, Toby
        spots Top Gallant in the highest rigging.  Mardocke disarms
        Toby of Susanna's knife and orders him to climb to Top
        Gallant.  A shouting Mayor Risello and townspeople enter. 
        A shot rings out.  Toby falls, caught by a rope.  Mardocke,
        victim of a bullet, sinks.  Cecilia waves a pistol she has
        slipped, unnoticed, from a constable's holster, and faints. 
      

              Toby looks up at the rigging.  Top Gallant has vanished. 
        Susanna reminds Toby, if he can see the stars, and his
        father can see the stars, then his father has truly found
        him.  Susanna asks if Nick might apprentice Toby. 
        Pierceton approves.  Chiding Cecilia, Pierceton reveals he
        has discovered the lost plans for Top Gallant hidden in her
        house.  Mayor Risello declares Winslow will build a full-
        size Top Gallant.  Toby, looking up to where Top Gallant
        was last seen, vows to fulfill his father's bold dreams
        (A BIT OF BLADE REPRISE).  
      

              Toby stands alone on a windswept hill (TOP GALLANT
        THEME REPRISE (II)).  He gathers the objects he pulled
        from his pockets on that early yester-morning.  Burning in
        the heavens, Top Gallant appears as a brilliant fire of fantasy
        and delight, of a child's dreams and tribulations, of a
        childhood's magic journey of life and death. 
        sets on JImmyyyyyy.