Call for Auditions
Mary Poppins Jr.
Announcing Auditions for ECT’s Main Stage Spring Musical
Epping Community Theater is excited to announce auditions for the spring production, a musical with casting opportunities for ages 8 to 18!
Your favorite practically perfect nanny takes center stage in this Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious adventure based on the award-winning Broadway musical and classic Walt Disney film.
Based on one of the most popular Disney movies of all time and the Broadway musical that played for over 2,500 performances and received multiple Olivier and Tony Awards nominations, Cameron Mackintosh and Disney's Mary Poppins is capturing hearts in a whole new way: as a practically perfect Broadway Junior musical!
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The jack-of-all trades, Bert, introduces us to England in 1910 and the troubled Banks family. Young Jane and Michael have sent many a nanny packing before Mary Poppins arrives on their doorstep. Using a combination of magic and common sense, she must teach the family members how to value each other again. Mary Poppins takes the children on many magical and memorable adventures, but Jane and Michael aren't the only ones upon whom she has a profound effect. Even grown-ups can learn a lesson or two from the nanny who advises that "Anything can happen if you let it."
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Audition slots available Sunday, January 3rd starting at 1pm and Monday, January 4th starting at 6:00pm. Auditions will be held at Watson Academy!
In order to audition please:
Fill out an audition form HERE.
There will be a mandatory cast (and parents of cast under age 16) meeting on Sunday January 10th at 1:00pm followed directly by a read/listen-through for the entire cast. The meeting should last approximately 30 minutes and it is where we collect production fees and go over expectations etc.
Rehearsals will run Sunday afternoons and Tuesday/Thursday evenings beginning January 10th.
Mandatory tech rehearsals:
Monday 4/12
Tuesday 4/13
Wednesday 4/14
Thursday 4/15
Performances:
Friday 4/16 @ 10:00am AND 7:00pm
Saturday 4/17 @ 2:00pm
Sunday 4/18 @ 2:00pm
Mandatory Strike to follow Sunday 4/18’s matinee performance. ​
You will receive links to to sign up for an audition slot & access to the audition materials after completing the form above in an email.
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Cast: All roles are open!
(in order of appearance)
Bert
The narrator of the story, is a good friend to Mary Poppins. An everyman, Bert is a chimney sweep and a sidewalk artist, among many other occupations. With a twinkle in his eye and a skip in his step, Bert watches over the children and the goings-on around Cherry Tree Lane. He is a song-and-dance man with oodles of charm who is wise beyond his years.
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George Banks
Husband to Winifred and father to Jane and Michael, is a banker to the very fiber of his being. Demanding "precision and order" in his household, he is a pip-and-slippers man who doesn't have much to do with his children and believes that Miss Andrew, his cruel, strict childhood nanny, gave him the perfect upbringing. George's emotional armor, however off-putting, conceals a sensitive soul.
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Mary Poppins
Jane and Michael Banks’s new nanny. She is extraordinary and strange, neat and tidy, delightfully vain yet very particular, and sometimes a little frightening, but she is always exciting. She is practically perfect in every way and always means what she says.
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Winifred Banks
George's wife and Jane and Michael's mother. She is a loving homemaker who is busy trying to live up to her husband's social aspirations while striving to be a model wife and mother. Cast an actor who can portray a great warmth and depth of feeling.
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Jane Banks
The high-spirited daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Banks, bright and precocious but can be willful and inclined to snobbishness.
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Michael Banks
The cheeky son of Mr. and Mrs. Banks. Excitable and naughty, he adores his father and longs desperately for his attention. Both he and Jane misbehave in order to get the attention of their parents.
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Mrs. Brill
The housekeeper and cook for the Banks family. Overworked, she’s always complaining that the house is understaffed. Her intimidating exterior is a cover for the warmth underneath.
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Robertson Ay
The houseboy to the Banks family. Forgetful and clumsy, he often bungles simple tasks.
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Katie Nanna
Katie Nanna is Jane and Michael’s nanny at the beginning of the show. Overwhelmed and upset, she has absolutely had her fill of the Banks children. ​
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Ensemble
Katie Nanna, Park Strollers, Statues, Neleus, Bird Woman, Honeybees, Clerks, Miss Smythe, Chariman, Von Hussler, John Northbrook, Vagrants, Buskers, Passerby, Mrs. Corry, Customers, Miss Andrew, Kite Flyers, Chimney Sweeps, Policeman and the Messenger.
