Mary Poppins: The Play Opens

In spite of rickety dress rehearsals and the usual last minute panics about costumes, inconsistent delivery of lines or choreography, the and fatigue of long rehearsals, performance week arrived. The first performance was a matinee for 1,300 3rd and 4th graders from the district. Luckily Sophie's class lobbied to come too so her friends got to see her!

 The Banks Family

Practically Perfect

 Spencer, Noah and

 Sophie is always the first to make friends with younger girls, who thought she was the cats meow!

 Our sweeps Dawson, Mairin, Tara, Traegan and James with Sophie and her Fly a Kite buddies

 Sophie and David and Maryn

 Trying to get Spencer to be in a photo is always a chore...

Spoon Full of Sugar (with just a few bloopers):

 I watched the first two performances from the side of the stage to oversee their 6 costume changes, so this was my view of Step in Time.

Let's Go Fly a Kite:

 We love our Kallie! with Sarah and Soph

 The kids felt like rock stars after every performance! Only we could never find Spencer, who would hurry to the choir room first thing to have his microphone removed and change his clothes! Not really one for public adoration, Spence.

 What a GREAT group of young people! Kind, supportive, fun, mature, helpful... I love them!

 All during rehearsals I'd ask the kids what their favorite scenes were. Spencer always said Step in Time, but then he flew in Anything can Happen so that won in the end. Sophie said all along, like her usual self, that she liked everything. After the first performance though, she confessed that she liked the bows best.

 Practically Perfect (and yes Maryn is as Mary!!!)

 Supercal!

 Feed the Birds, a.k.a. watch Spencer do something new and funny every night! As he got more and more comfortable on stage, he got more and more creative with his acting. In feed the birds, he'd stick some of the bird seed in his mouth and pretend to choke on it, making the most ludicrous faces! In Spoon Full of Sugar, he began miming eating the plastic fruit from the kitchen's fruit bowl.  One night while the others were dancing around the kitchen table he pretended to chug Mary Poppin's medicine bottle. Eventually the cast began lining up back stage to watch him and see what he would do next!

Jolly Holiday

"You can't come with us, you're too dirty, and we don't want to go to the stinky old park anyway!"

The costumes were gorgeous!

Our cloggers provided the percussion for Step in Time, which always brought the house down.