{"id":5129,"date":"2015-11-11T00:40:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T00:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=5129"},"modified":"2015-11-11T00:48:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T00:48:49","slug":"mary-poppins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=5129","title":{"rendered":"Mary Poppins!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I first saw the movie, Mary Poppins, years ago at the drive-in theater.\u00a0 I fell in love with it then, and I still love the movie.\u00a0 This week I got to see it on stage.\u00a0 Performed by almost professional people.\u00a0 High school students.\u00a0 I was amazed at the professionalism.\u00a0 Of course, I am not at all prejudiced, seeing as we had a granddaughter performing in the musical.<\/p>\n

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They had four performances and we went to the Saturday afternoon show.<\/p>\n

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It was a packed, sold out crowd.<\/p>\n

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The children were high school students.\u00a0 Hard to believe that little girl is a freshman in high school.\u00a0 I thought they had gotten a couple of children to play the Banks children, but no, it was students from the high school.\u00a0\u00a0 They were so good in their parts.\u00a0 That young lady in the hat?\u00a0 What a voice.\u00a0 She blew us all away with her singing.<\/p>\n

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Here is Mary Poppins with the Banks children and Bert, the chimney sweep.\u00a0 See those statues behind them?\u00a0\u00a0 Three girls stood for long periods of time in one position.\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t know how they did it.<\/p>\n

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Let’s go fly a kite…..<\/p>\n

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Up to the highest height……<\/p>\n

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Let’s go fly a kite and send it soaring…….<\/p>\n

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Though her words are simple and few, “Listen, listen”, she’s calling to you.\u00a0 “Feed the birds, tuppence a bag.\u00a0 Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag.”<\/p>\n

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Now as the ladder of life has been strung, you may think a sweep’s on the bottommost rung.<\/p>\n

Though I spends me time in the ashes and smoke,<\/p>\n

In this\u00a0 ‘ole wide world there’s no happier bloke.<\/p>\n

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Step in time.\u00a0 Never need a reason……..So many on the stage and they didn’t run into each other!<\/p>\n

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Bert does a flip in midair!\u00a0 Wow.<\/p>\n

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During one song, the audience participated by waving penlights in the air.\u00a0 It was magical.<\/p>\n

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See that young lady in the glasses?\u00a0 That’s our granddaughter.\u00a0 She is becoming quite comfortable on the stage.<\/p>\n

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The young man sitting here who played George Banks that day was only a stand in and had not gone through the entire play.\u00a0 The original Mr. Banks was having trouble with his throat.\u00a0 This guy did an amazing job.\u00a0 You would not have known he hadn’t been practicing for weeks.\u00a0 Like I said, professionalism.<\/p>\n

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The costumes were so pretty.<\/p>\n

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The stage crew did an amazing job of changing the scenery.<\/p>\n

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Taking a final bow.\u00a0 The audience gave them a standing ovation and they deserved it.<\/p>\n

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Our son proudly posing with our grandson and granddaughter.\u00a0\u00a0 Look, his son is as tall as his dad\u00a0and he’s only an eighth grader. Our granddaughter’s “little brother.”<\/p>\n

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Our younger grandson, who I am sure we will be seeing on stage in the future.\u00a0 His dad was\u00a0in several musicals when he was in school and in college.\u00a0 It comes naturally.<\/p>\n

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Such a wonderful day.\u00a0 I cannot wait to see the next\u00a0musical this school produces.\u00a0 Nice to be with family too.<\/p>\n

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Oh, I didn’t tell you Bert and my granddaughter are boyfriend and girlfriend.<\/p>\n

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They are so cute together.\u00a0 And the best thing about them is they are great young\u00a0people with high ideals.\u00a0 He’s a senior so this is\u00a0his last musical.<\/p>\n

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It was a delightful, fun, exciting, and heart warming\u00a0musical and I am so glad I got to see it.\u00a0Bye.<\/p>\n

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I first saw the movie, Mary Poppins, years ago at the drive-in theater.\u00a0 I fell in love with it then, and I still love the movie.\u00a0 This week I got to see it on stage.\u00a0 Performed by almost professional people.\u00a0 High school students.\u00a0 I was amazed at the professionalism.\u00a0 Of course, I am not at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5129"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5133,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129\/revisions\/5133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}