MARY POPPINS - NYC EPA
North Carolina Theatre | Raleigh, NC
Monday, March 13, 2023
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
LOA
$874 weekly minimum (Ref. COST)
Equity actors for principal roles 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.
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
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
Edward G. Robinson: Musical Director
Rehearsal: July 10th, 2023
Opening: July 25th, 2023
Closing: July 30th, 2023
OTHER
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EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition. An Equity Monitor will be provided. 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: 80
The maximum capacity in the audition room is: 28
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.
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