MARY POPPINS - RALEIGH, NC EPA
NORTH CAROLINA THEATRE
North Carolina Theatre Conservatory
3043 Barrow Drive
Raleigh, NC 27616
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Sun, Mar 5, 2023
10:00 AM to 6:00 PM (EST)
Lunch: 12:30-1:30pm
To schedule an audition appointment, please email Eric Woodall at: EWoodall@Nctheatre.com .
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$874 weekly minimum (Ref. COST)
Equity actors for principal roles and chorus singer parts in Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s MARY POPPINS (See breakdown).
Please prepare a brief song from the show or in the style of the show. Bring sheet music, in the correct key, as an accompanist will be provided. Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Based on the stories of P.L. Travers and the Walt Disney Film
Original Music and Lyrics: Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
New Songs and Additional Music/Lyrics: George Stiles and Anthony Drewe
Book: Julian Fellowes
Co-Created by: Cameron Mackintosh
Expected to attend:
Eric Woodall,CSA: Director, Artistic Director, Casting Director
Jesse Kapsha: Music Director
Rehearsal: July 10th, 2023
Opening: July 25th, 2023
Closing: July 30th, 2023
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An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of audition.
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
Equity encourages everyone participating in the auditions to wear a two-ply cloth face mask, surgical mask, singer’s mask or respirator (N95, KN95 or KF94). Single-ply face masks, gaiters and bandanas are not recommended. Singer’s masks can be found at www.broadwayreliefproject.com/singersmask.
Equity encourages members to prepare for their audition prior to arriving at the audition venue, to the extent that they can (e.g., get dressed, hair/make-up, etc.) to avoid crowding in bathrooms and dressing rooms.
Holding/Audition room information:
The maximum capacity in the holding room is: 100
The maximum capacity in the audition room is: 100
MARY POPPINS: mid 20s - early 30s. Any ethnicity. Female-identifying. Mezzo Soprano with a strong top. Dances 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. Any ethnicity. Male-identifying Cockney accent. Inexplicably has a variety of occupations – match man, pavement painter and chimney sweep. 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. Any ethnicity. Male-identifying A senior bank clerk by name, nature, and occupation. He believes, however wrong he may be, that he had the perfect childhood. Rules with an iron fist, but his emotional armor conceals 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. Any ethnicity. Female-identifying. Mezzo Soprano. She is 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.
MRS. BRILL: 50s. Any ethnicity. Female-identifying. 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. Any ethnicity. Female-identifying. 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.
THE BIRDWOMAN: 50s. Any ethnicity. Female-identifying. Covered in patchwork of old shawls, her pockets are stuffed with bags of crumbs for the birds. Sings “Feed the Birds”.
ROBERTSON AY: Early 20s. Any ethnicity. Male-identifying Tenor. The house boy to the Banks family. Lazy, sleepy and grumbling. He never gets things right so believes himself to be useless.
ADMIRAL BOOM: 50s. Any ethnicity. Male-identifying Baritone. Retired. A physically large man who has a loud and booming voice. Speaks in navy jargon. Doubles as CHAIRMAN: an Edwardian stuffed-shirt. Head of the bank.
PARK KEEPER/ENSEMBLE: 40s-50s. Any ethnicity. Male-identifying Tenor. Smart, uniformed, officious. His life is defined by rules but he secretly hankers after his childhood.
NELEUS/ENSEMBLE: 20s. Any ethnicity. Male-identifying The statue of a young boy separated from his father, Poseidon. An excellent dancer.
MISS LARK/ENSEMBLE: 30s. Any ethnicity. Female-identifying. Mezzo Soprano. A haughty snob who lives next door to the Banks. Treats her dog like a child.
MRS. CORRY/ENSEMBLE: 40s. Black. Female-identifying Soprano. Owner of the gingerbread shop. A mystical woman of stature who speaks with a Caribbean accent.
THE POLICEMAN/ENSEMBLE: 30s-40s. Any ethnicity. Male-identifying A real neighborhood Policeman. Respected and observant of the households on his beat.
FEMALE ENSEMBLE: 20s-40s Any ethnicity. Female-identifying. Excellent Tap/Jazz/Ballet dancers with strong singing voices (all vocal ranges) to comprise the ensemble and understudy the principal roles.
MALE ENSEMBLE: 20’s-40’s Any ethnicity. Male-identifying. Excellent Tap/Jazz/Ballet dancers with strong singing voices (all vocal ranges) to comprise the ensemble and understudy the principal roles.
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