MARY POPPINS – Equity Principal Auditions
Broadway Production Contract $1605/minimum
Producer: Cameron Mackintosh & Disney Theatrical Productions
Director: Richard Eyre
Co-Director & Choreographer: Matthew Bourne
Co-Choreographer: Stephen Mear
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, September 8, 2010 at Pearl Studios
10 AM – 5:30 PM 500 Eighth Avenue, 12th Floor
Lunch from 1:30 - 2. New York, NY
Prepare a contemporary musical theatre song. Please bring sheet music; an accompanist will be provided. Please bring a 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.
Seeking possible future replacements for the Broadway company.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jane Banks:
11. Pretty and attractive girl. Exuberant but willful. Occasionally inclined to snobbishness. Maximum height: 58”
Michael Banks:
9. Cute and cheeky. Excitable. Naughty. Adores his father and tries to be like him. 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.
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.
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.
The Birdwoman:
50s. Covered in patchwork of old shawls, her pockets are stuffed with bags of crumbs for the birds. Sings “Feed the Birds.”
Admiral Boom / Chairman:
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.
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Please note that this production will use smoke and haze in accordance with guidelines established with Actors’ Equity Association.
Due to time and capacity no Non-Equity Children will be seen at this call. An Open Call will be planned for the near future.
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