mary poppins cast

[jess20882]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 11:25am

i have a ticket to see mary poppins tonight (saturday mat 26). was just wondering if anyone in the cast is out or has been replaced? i know i could probably find the information on my own but people on this board always seem to know everything LOL

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 11:26am

MARY POPPINS info:

http://www.broadway.com/gen/show.aspx?SI=524489

[jess20882]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 11:28am

that's not the information i was looking for, but thanks anyway! plus it's not even updated - it still lists the old janes/michaels.
but i appreciate the help...
i was wondering if anyone is out b/c of sickness or vacation...

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 11:38am

For more last-minute info simply call the New Amsterdam Theatre directly at: [phone].

I'm sure they'll be able to answer all your inquiries and any last-minute info on any actors missing any of the 2 performances today (if they know that far in advance).

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 1:21pm

Have fun!

[bundy5000]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 1:24pm

tell us all about it! And tell us if Ashley flies cause when i went she didnt

[dfwtheatreguy]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 1:26pm

i am SO sorry for you jess20882 - i went to see this show expecting just some of the magic from the film or at least the humor of the books, but there was NONE! gavin lee is a decent bert, rebecca luker is severely under-utilized, and although she was out i know ruth gotschall would have been fabulous. ashley brown, however, was like a dead angry fish onstage, if she didnt have the huge set behind her i am sure the audience would have thrown tomatoes at the stage.

Updated On: 5/26/07 at 01:26 PM

[DG]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 1:29pm

Just for a different point of view, I thought Ashley was excellent - 'practically perfect', as it were.

In fact, I was thoroughly engaged by the whole show - and I am a HUGE fan of the movie. It's not the movie - it stood on its own, for me anyway.

I hope you enjoy.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 1:52pm

DG, I agree with you. Ashley Brown was stunning. I loved the finale song - a truely magical moment.

The stage version at times is definitely darker than the movie.

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 7:26pm

Bundy- She always flies, just not the day you went. I guess you have bad luck.

[broadwayjoe476]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 9:58pm

BUNDY-- I have seen the show 5 times now, love it; but i talked to the ushers almost every time and got to know a couple of them very well and there was only 1 or 2 times that she didn't fly, but disney does everything they can to make sure she can fly. It must have just been that day you went. Sorry, such a cool effect tho!

[lite2shine]

Posted: 5/27/07 at 2:21am

Speaking of flying, I was at a local theatre that houses a nationa tour, and I was thinking "they can't bring Mary Poppins national tour to this theatre, there is no place that she can flying into and disappear, then can come down for the curtain call." There is a rafter for lights, but the problem is that once Mary Poppins flies into the rafter, she has to run down to get out from there to the back stage for the curtain call appearance. And to get off from this rafter, she has to come down via ladder. So, unless they can make a special rafter for the touring company, not many theatres can house Mary Poppins national tour, or they have to change the direction (she won't fly at the end) to accomodate such challenge.

[AnnaK<3LMIP]

Posted: 5/27/07 at 2:59am

Why couldn't she fly?

[clarkstallings]

Posted: 5/27/07 at 3:12am

The tour flying is simple. I've said before, all that needs to be done is fly her to a faux light truss overhead that can conceal her, then fly her majestically back down to the stage for the curtain call. The effect could then be the same in every single theatre. I believe the Phantom tour requires or at one point required a beam position lighting truss overhead. Back in the early nineties, the phantom tour would "phantomize" road houses, ie making upgrades so that the tour could be accomodated. One of these upgrades was reinforcing the ceilings of road houses that didn't have an overhead beam lighting position previously installed so that the phantom tour could hang its truss overhead. The bottom line is, just about any theatre that phantom has played it can structurally support the rigging required to fly a 120 lb woman over the audience. It can also support a truss to conceal said woman.

[bundy5000]

Posted: 5/27/07 at 8:13am

i have had some theatre bad luck with seeing understudies, no flying,and not able to get autographs. But the show must go on