At early morning on a windswept hill, Toby scans for ships returning to harbor.  
He longs for his father, lost on a voyage.  Young ruffians poke fun at Toby (A BIT 
OF BLADE).  When ships are sighted, Toby and the ruffians burst into Winslow's 
town square (HOME!). Toby fails to find his father (SAILORS' DANCE).  He 
dejectedly walks by the shore (DA DEE DUM). and stumbles upon a ship model.  
Toby takes up the treasure.  
      A self-flattering Aunt Cecilia enters her stylish home (GOOD DAY, CECILIA!).  
Her guest, Mayor Risello, listens to a secret request from Cecilia, who wishes to 
apprentice Toby off.  In his bedroom, Toby watches in wonder as his window turns 
into a rope-rigging (I WISH I HAD A FATHER / TOP GALLANT THEME).  
Climbing high, he swears his father has sent the ship model to help Toby rescue 
him.  
      At the harbor the next morning, Toby is confronted by sailors and harbor women 
(SAILORS' DANCE REPRISE (I)).  Captain Mardocke enters (I'LL SAIL NO 
MORE ON ENGLAND'S SHORE).  He spots Toby's ship model and is startled the 
name carved on its side is Top Gallant.  Mardocke, bribing Susanna with a bracelet, 
covertly demands that she steal the ship (SAILORS' DANCE REPRISE (II)).  
      In a dream sequence, Toby is shadowed by Captain Mardocke (IF THE DEVIL 
MEET A LAD).  Elsewhere, three young men, including Nick, fantasize about 
going to sea (THE WATER IS COOL).  Susanna tempts Nick (IF A WOMAN 
MEET A LAD), just as Sparrow endeavors to shanghai him.  Nick escapes. 
      At Deacon's Yard, Captain Mardocke barters with Mayor Risello.  Cecilia 
promenades Toby who carries Top Gallant.  Mardocke demands that Toby become 
his mess boy.  Mayor Risello attempts to foil Mardocke by auctioning Toby to the 
highest bidder (APPRENTICE!).  Mardocke fiercely bids for Toby.  During the 
melee, Toby escapes with Top Gallant.   
    

      Nick surprises Susanna by the island spit.  He protests she set him up to be 
shanghaied.  Nick impresses Susanna with his life of honest labor (PUSHIN' UP THE 
HILL).  
      Sparrow enters Captain Mardocke's quarters to report Susanna has failed to 
conscript Nick.  Nor has anyone seen Toby.  Enraged, Mardocke demands the search 
continue for Toby and Top Gallant, since the ship holds the key to unheard-of sailing 
speed (FIND ME THE BOY).   
      At her home, Cecilia teases Mayor Risello, boasting her father will soon acquire the 
Blue Star ship-building contract, which the Mayor covets.  He slyly challenges her in a 
duet (THE WAY IT SHOULD BE / SWEET MELODY).   
      Toby, exploring Winslow’s harbor island, runs into Susanna.  He echoes his father's 
words, "You can see the stars from anywhere you are on earth."  If Toby can see the 
stars, and his father can see the stars, then one day he will find him.  Susanna offers a 
knife for Top Gallant (ONE KNIFE).  Failing in her attempt, she drugs Toby and steals 
the ship.  
      In a flashback to Toby's parents' home, Katelyn Mathias, Toby's mother, sings to a 
large portrait of Toby's father, Christopher Mathias (YOU HAVE DREAMS).  They 
argue by letter, he from Boston as he designs a clipper ship, the full-size Top Gallant, 
and she from Winslow, fearful of the high risk.  Top Gallant materializes in full glory, 
even as sailors' chants warn of those who may never return (SEVEN SEAS AWAY).  
      Captain Mardocke, sailors and harbor women carouse in the Jack Rose Tap 
(MASTER OF THE REVELS).  To Mardocke’s delight, Susanna enters with Top 
Gallant.  Suddenly, in a drug-induced fantasy high above, Toby clings to a rope-
rigging stretching up a mast, fighting a raging sea formed of reveling dancers.  At the 
height of the merriment, Susanna sets Top Gallant on the tavern mantel, where it glows 
as if on fire.  
    

      At early morning on a windswept hill, Toby scans for ships returning to harbor.  
He longs for his father, lost on a voyage.  Young ruffians poke fun at Toby (A BIT OF 
BLADE).  When ships are sighted, Toby and the ruffians burst into Winslow's town 
square (HOME!). Toby fails to find his father (SAILORS' DANCE).  He dejectedly 
walks by the shore (DA DEE DUM). and stumbles upon a ship model.  Toby takes up the 
treasure.  
      A self-flattering Aunt Cecilia enters her stylish home (GOOD DAY, CECILIA!).  
Her guest, Mayor Risello, listens to a secret request from Cecilia, who wishes to 
apprentice Toby off.  In his bedroom, Toby watches in wonder as his window turns into 
a rope-rigging (I WISH I HAD A FATHER / TOP GALLANT THEME).  Climbing high, 
Toby swears his father has sent the ship model to help Toby rescue him.  
      At the harbor the next morning, Toby is confronted by sailors and harbor women 
(SAILORS' DANCE REPRISE (I)).  Captain Mardocke enters (I'LL SAIL NO MORE 
ON ENGLAND'S SHORE).  He spots Toby's ship model and is startled the name carved 
on its side is Top Gallant.  Mardocke, bribing Susanna with a bracelet, covertly demands 
that she steal the ship (SAILORS' DANCE REPRISE (II)).  
      In a dream sequence, Toby is shadowed by Captain Mardocke (IF THE DEVIL 
MEET A LAD).  Elsewhere, three young men, including Nick, fantasize about going to 
sea (THE WATER IS COOL).  Susanna tempts Nick (IF A WOMAN MEET A LAD), 
just as Sparrow endeavors to shanghai him.  Nick escapes.  
      At Deacon's Yard, Captain Mardocke barters with Mayor Risello.  Cecilia 
promenades Toby who carries Top Gallant.  Mardocke demands that Toby become his 
mess boy.  Mayor Risello attempts to foil Mardocke by auctioning Toby to the highest 
bidder (APPRENTICE!).  Mardocke fiercely bids for Toby.  During the melee, Toby 
escapes with Top Gallant.
    

      Nick surprises Susanna by the island spit.  He protests she set him up to be 
shanghaied.  Nick impresses Susanna with his life of honest labor (PUSHIN' UP THE 
HILL).  
      Sparrow enters Captain Mardocke's quarters to report Susanna has failed to 
conscript Nick.  Nor has anyone seen Toby.  Enraged, Mardocke demands the search 
continue for Toby and Top Gallant, since the ship holds the key to unheard-of sailing 
speed (FIND ME THE BOY).   
      At her home, Cecilia teases Mayor Risello, boasting her father will soon acquire the 
Blue Star ship-building contract, which the Mayor covets.  He slyly challenges her in a 
duet (THE WAY IT SHOULD BE / SWEET MELODY).   
      Toby, exploring Winslow’s harbor island, runs into Susanna.  He echoes his father's 
words, "You can see the stars from anywhere you are on earth."  If Toby can see the stars, 
and his father can see the stars, then one day he will find him.  Susanna offers a knife for 
Top Gallant (ONE KNIFE).  Failing in her attempt, she drugs Toby and steals the ship.  
      In a flashback to Toby's parents' home, Katelyn Mathias, Toby's mother, sings to a 
large portrait of Toby's father, Christopher Mathias (YOU HAVE DREAMS).  They 
argue by letter, he from Boston as he designs a clipper ship, the full-size Top Gallant, 
and she from Winslow, fearful of the high risk.  Top Gallant materializes in full glory, 
even as sailors' chants warn of those who may never return (SEVEN SEAS AWAY).  
      Captain Mardocke, sailors and harbor women carouse in the Jack Rose Tap 
(MASTER OF THE REVELS).  To Mardocke’s delight, Susanna enters with Top 
Gallant.  Suddenly, in a drug-induced fantasy high above, Toby clings to a rope-rigging 
stretching up a mast, fighting a raging sea formed of reveling dancers.  At the height 
of the merriment, Susanna sets Top Gallant on the tavern mantel, where it glows as if 
on fire.  
    

      At early morning on a windswept hill, Toby scans for ships returning to harbor.  He longs for his 
father, lost on a voyage.  Young ruffians poke fun at Toby (A BIT OF BLADE).  When ships are sighted,  
Toby and the ruffians burst into Winslow's town square (HOME!). Toby fails to find his father 
(SAILORS' DANCE).  He dejectedly walks by the shore (DA DEE DUM). and stumbles upon a ship 
model.  Toby takes up the treasure.  
      A self-flattering Aunt Cecilia enters her stylish home (GOOD DAY, CECILIA!).  Her guest, Mayor 
Risello, listens to a secret request from Cecilia, who wishes to apprentice Toby off.  In his bedroom, 
Toby watches in wonder as his window turns into a rope-rigging (I WISH I HAD A FATHER / TOP 
GALLANT THEME).  Climbing high, he swears his father has sent the ship model to help Toby 
rescue him.  
      At the harbor the next morning, Toby is confronted by sailors and harbor women (SAILORS' 
DANCE REPRISE (I)).  Captain Mardocke enters (I'LL SAIL NO MORE ON ENGLAND'S SHORE).  
He spots Toby's ship model and is startled the name carved on its side is Top Gallant.  Mardocke, bribing 
Susanna with a bracelet, covertly demands that she steal the ship (SAILORS' DANCE REPRISE (II)).  
      In a dream sequence, Toby is shadowed by Captain Mardocke (IF THE DEVIL MEET A LAD).  
Elsewhere, three young men, including Nick, fantasize about going to sea (THE WATER IS COOL).  
Susanna tempts Nick (IF A WOMAN MEET A LAD), just as Sparrow endeavors to shanghai him.  Nick 
escapes.  
      At Deacon's Yard, Captain Mardocke barters with Mayor Risello.  Cecilia promenades Toby who 
carries Top Gallant.  Mardocke demands that Toby become his mess boy.  Mayor Risello attempts to foil 
Mardocke by auctioning Toby to the highest bidder (APPRENTICE!).  Mardocke fiercely bids for Toby.  
During the melee, Toby escapes with Top Gallant.
    

      Nick surprises Susanna by the island spit.  He protests she set him up to be shanghaied.  Nick 
impresses Susanna with his life of honest labor (PUSHIN' UP THE HILL).  
      Sparrow enters Captain Mardocke's quarters to report Susanna has failed to conscript Nick.  Nor 
has anyone seen Toby.  Enraged, Mardocke demands the search continue for Toby and Top Gallant, 
since the ship holds the key to unheard-of sailing speed (FIND ME THE BOY).   
      At her home, Cecilia teases Mayor Risello, boasting her father will soon acquire the Blue Star ship-
building contract, which the Mayor covets.  He slyly challenges her in a duet (THE WAY IT SHOULD 
BE / SWEET MELODY).   
      Toby, exploring Winslow’s harbor island, runs into Susanna.  He echoes his father's words, "You 
can see the stars from anywhere you are on earth."  If Toby can see the stars, and his father can see the 
stars, then one day he will find him.  Susanna offers a knife for Top Gallant (ONE KNIFE).  Failing in 
her attempt, she drugs Toby and steals the ship.  
      In a flashback to Toby's parents' home, Katelyn Mathias, Toby's mother, sings to a large portrait of 
Toby's father, Christopher Mathias (YOU HAVE DREAMS).  They argue by letter, he from Boston as 
he designs a clipper ship, the full-size Top Gallant, and she from Winslow, fearful of the high risk.  
Top Gallant materializes in full glory, even as sailors' chants warn of those who may never return 
(SEVEN SEAS AWAY).  
      Captain Mardocke, sailors and harbor women carouse in the Jack Rose Tap (MASTER OF THE 
REVELS).  To Mardocke’s delight, Susanna enters with Top Gallant.  Suddenly, in a drug-induced 
fantasy high above, Toby clings to a rope-rigging stretching up a mast, fighting a raging sea formed of 
reveling dancers.  At the height of the merriment, Susanna sets Top Gallant on the tavern mantel, 
where it glows as if on fire.