PRODUCTION TIERED TOUR
MARY POPPINS (Tiered Tour Production)
– Equity Principal Auditions
Production Contract Tier C Tour; $1,049/week (approval pending)
Producer: Cameron Mackintosh & Disney Theatrical Productions, in association with NETworks
Director: Richard Eyre
Co-Director & Choreographer: Matthew Bourne
Co-Choreographer: Stephen Mear
Tour Director: Anthony Lyn
Tour Choreographer: Geoffrey Garratt
Original Music & Lyrics: Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman
New Songs & Additional Music & Lyrics: George Stiles & Anthony Drewe
Book: Julian Fellowes
Musical Supervisor: David Caddick
Based on the stories of P.L. Travers and the Walt Disney Film
Casting: Tara Rubin Casting
Equity Principal Auditions:
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at Pearl Studios “519”
Thursday, July 14, 2011 519 Eighth Avenue, 12th Floor
Friday, July 15, 2011 NYC. Studios B and G
10 AM – 5:30 PM each day
Lunch from 1 – 1:30.
Prepare a contemporary musical theatre song. Bring sheet music in correct key; accompanist provided but may not transpose.
Bring picture and resume, stapled together.
Combining the stories of P.L. Travers and the Academy Award-winning film, MARY POPPINS is filled with priceless memories, timeless songs (Chim Chim Cher-ee, Let’s Go Fly a Kite, Supercalifragilisticexpialadocious) and more than just a spoonful of spectacular stagecraft.
Casting Director’s Note: “Due to time and capacity we will be unable to see any Non-Equity Children at this time.”
For the U.S. Tiered Touring Production Seeking:
Mary Poppins
(mid 20s-30) Mezzo Soprano with a strong top. Must be able to dance well. British accent. Neat and tidy, delightfully vain. Very particular and sharp. Strange and extraordinary, sometimes frightening but at the same time exciting. Practically perfect in every way. Always means exactly what she says. Principal role.
Bert:
(30s) Baritone to G. Manly but warm. Cockney accent. Inexplicably has a variety of occupations – match man, pavement painter, chimney sweep, hurdy gurdy player. A friend of Mary Poppins who is always nearby to watch the children and observe the goings on in Cherry Tree Lane. A song and dance man. Excellent tap dancer. Principal role.
Mr. George Banks:
(early 40s) Baritone. A senior bank clerk by name, nature, and occupation. Believes, however wrong he may be, that he had the perfect childhood. Rules with an iron fist but his emotional armour is concealing a sensitive soul. He is a pipe and slippers man who doesn’t have much to do with his children. Absent minded, always losing his possessions. Likes things just so even though money is always tight for a salaried man. Principal role.
Mrs Winifred Banks:
(30s) Mezzo Soprano. Very busy trying to live up to her husband’s desire to only associate with the best people. A loving but distracted mother. She is overwhelmed by the conflict between her desire to please her husband and children and the contradictory suspicion that she’s both not up to the job and worth more. Principal role.
Jane Banks:
(11) Pretty and attractive girl. Exuberant but willful. Occasionally inclined to snobbishness. Principal role. Maximum height: 58”
Michael Banks:
(9) Cute and cheeky. Excitable. Naughty. Adores his father and tries to be like him. Principal role. Maximum height: 56”
Mrs Brill:
(50s) Alto. The Housekeeper. Always complaining that the house is understaffed. Most of the time her intimidating exterior barely masks the warmth underneath. Big, bosomy and harassed. Barks rather than speaks. Doesn’t have a high opinion of nannies in general and Mary Poppins in particular. Principal role.
Miss Andrew:
(40s-50s) Soprano with Alto Belt. George’s old nanny. Overbearing lady with a huge trumpeting voice. Beak nosed, grim mouthed, small peering be-spectacled eyes. A bully who only knows one way of doing things – her way. Also THE BIRDWOMAN (50s) Covered in patchwork of old shawls, her pockets are stuffed with bags of crumbs for the birds. Sings “Feed the Birds”. Principal Role
Robertson Ay:
(Early 20s) Tenor. The house boy to the Banks family. Lazy, sleepy and grumbling. He never gets things right so believes himself to be useless. Principal Role
Admiral Boom:
(50s) Baritone. Retired. A physically large man who has a loud and booming voice. Speaks in navy jargon. Also plays CHAIRMAN: an Edwardian stuffed-shirt. Head of the bank. Principal Role
Please note that this production will use smoke and haze in accordance with guidelines established with Actors’ Equity Association.
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