Mary Poppins Page #4

Jane:
Come on. I hear the merry go round.

(Jane and Michael run off stage right.)

Mary:
(calling off after them) Don’t fall and smudge the painting.

(Bert faces front, dusts off his hat, and puts it on. Mary faces front and puts up her parasol. Nod at each other.)

Song – Jolly Holiday


(As the song ends, two waiters bustle out from stage left with a patio table and two chairs and two menu which they set on the table. They then bustle off stage left. Mary and Bert sit down at a café and look at the menus.)

Bert:
Waiter, Waiter.

(Four waiters enter in a row and wait expectantly.)

Mary:
(sung) Now, let’s see. What would be nice? We’ll start with raspberry ice, and then some cakes and tea.

Waiter 1:
Order what you will, there’ll be no bill!

Waiter 2:
It’s complimentary!

Mary:
You’re very kind

Waiter 3:
Anything for you Mary Poppins. You’re our favourite person.

Bert:
Right you are! It’s true that Omar and Tamir have ways that are winnin’ And Aya and Salsabil set your hearts spinnin’

Waiter 1:
Lauren’s delightful

Waiter2:
Amal’s disarming

Waiter 3:
Hamad, Ahmad, Dae Young?

Bert:
Charming. Lachkar is dashing

Waiter 1:
Bouzouba is sweet.

Waiter 2:
Adam is smashing

Waiter 3:
Miss Poetker a treat

Waiter1:
Mr Hasbrouk

Waiter 2:
and Mr Dane

Bert:
Convivial company time and again

Waiter 3:
Miss Ginger

Waiter 1:
Mr Jim

Waiter 2:
Miss Michelle and sorts

Bert:
I’ll agree they’re three jolly sports

But cream of the crop. Tip of the top.

Bert and Waiters: Is Mary Poppins and that’s where we stop!

(Lights down)

Song– Jolly Holiday (chorus)

(Lights up on stage, clear of table and chair, now with race course projected on sheet. Mary Poppins, Bert, and children are on hobby horses, moving in a circle, rising and falling, around the guard in the middle who is holding up umbrella-like carousel top. As music is playing, they just rotate around the guard. As music fades out, they continue rotating.)

Michael:
Yahoo – giddy up. Yahooooooweeee!

Jane:
Our own private merry go round!

Bert:
(looking board) Very nice indeed, if you don’t mind going nowhere.

Mary:
Who says we’re going nowhere? Oh Guard...

Guard:
Righto, Mary Poppins. Anything for you, ma’am. (Raises the umbrella higher) And they’re off! It’s Mary Poppins in the lead by two lengths with Jane second by a length and Michael is coming a close third. And it’s Bert coming up on the outside.

(First Mary Poppins, and then Bert and the children behind him veer out of the circle. And down the stairs stage left. As they do so, 2 hunters on horses enter from the door- stage left and gallop down the steps and down the right aisle. A the same time, the fox enters from the back of the auditorium and hides in the audience. Mary Poppins and the others follow the hunters down the aisle.)

Mary Poppins:
Please control yourselves. We are not on a race course. Follow me please, good morning. (She speaks as she passes the hunt people)

Hunter 1:
Oh yes, good morning to you! What… I say – Have you ever seen…

Hunter 2:
Never in all my days

Hunter 1:
Most definitely my good man


Hunter 2:
Oh goodness. They seem to have lost their carousel!

Hunter 1:
Or we’ve lost our marbles.

Hunter 2:
Well they won’t find it tramping over our fields.

Hunter 1:
I wonder what they’re up to.

Hunter 2:
View Halloo – I see the fox!

Hunter 1:
Oh Yes there’s the fox. View hallooooo.

Fox:
View Halloooo. Oh No! Not again. It’s them dreadful redcoats again! Im Off.

(The fox heads across the back of the auditorium with hunters in pursuit)

Hunter 1:
View Hallooo, View Hallooo, View Halloooo!

Fox:
Typical. Here I am out for a nice quiet after noon, jolly day out and all that and here they all come again!

Hunter 2:
Come on fellas, let’s catch the little devil!

Fox:
Oh no! And I’ve just eaten lunch too!

(Bert Rides through the hunt)

Bert:
Poor little fella. Let’s give him a hand. (Pulls the fox onto his horse and ducks into the middle aisle. Hunters ride past and out the back doors. Three jockeys ride in in their places & start up left aisle. On stage, 2 reporters enter from stage left.)

Fox:
Yikes…. Thanks mate…. Tally ho!!!!

(Mary and others following the jockeys up the aisle.)

Mary Poppins:
Oh riders, would you be so kind as to let me pass.

Jockey 1:
Certainly ma’am please pass.

Mary:
Thank you. Excuse me?

Jockey 2:
Not at all ma’am. Do come by.

Jockey 3:
It’s Mary Poppins – Nice to see you ma’am.

Jockey 1:
Mary … Well hello there again.

Jockey 2:
Good to see you again Mary Poppins

Jockey 3:
Lovely weather Ma’am

Jockey 1:
And always nice to see you around these parts.

Mary:
Yes excellent gentlemen.

Jockey 2:
It’s always a perfect day with Mary Poppins around.

Jockey 3:
(Coming up to the finishing line, held by 2 waiters at the top of the left aisle. One waves a checkered flag.) No, no Mary Poppins – our pleasure, through you go!

Waiters:
Hooray, Hooray.

Guard:
And by a horses whisker… who’s that? It's Mary Poppins! She wins the ultimate of races, the highest of high, the Graaaaaand National.

(All finish the race and shake hands going up onto stage from stage right)

Reporter 1:
(With camera) Hold on there watch the dickie bird (Picture of Mary)

Reporter 2:
(With a clipboard) and how does it feel Mary, winning the race?

Mary:
Oh Wel….

Reporter 1:
(With a notepad!) Gaining fame and fortune?

Reporter 2:
(Holding a microphone) winning the greatest horse race of the sporting calendar?

Mary:
Uh Yes!

Reporter 1:
Having your picture taken for the newspaper?

Reporter 2:
It’ll be seen by all of England.

Mary:
Uh, Well actually, I’m delighted.

Reporter 1:
You’ll be a household name over night.

Reporter 2:
Known by all.

Reporter 1:
Well she’s already known by many

Reporter2:
Besides having really good looks.

Mary:
Oh well I wouldn’t go …

Reporter 1:
Speechless I think she is;

Reporter 2:
There probably aren’t words to describe your emotions.

Mary:
Now now, Gentleman, Please … on the contrary… there is a word… Am I right Bert?

Bert:
You’re right Mary Poppins. You just tell them what that word is!

Mary :
Right Here we go. It’s……..

Song - Supercalifragalistic

(Light flash on and off – all the characters act as though it’s raining and put there hands over their heads and go off! Reporter 1 and the jockeys off stage right, down the aisle and out the back doors. Reporter 2 and guard off stage left and out the door.)

Mary:
Jane! Michael! Stay close now!

(Lights down. Sets are uncovered again to reveal St. Paul’s and the bank. Lights up with Mary, Bert, and children in same spot)

Mary:
Oh Bert! Your fine paintings are going to get wet!

Bert:
Ah well. There’s more where they come from!

Mary:
Come along children. Bye Bert. (Bert exits stage right, down aisle and out back. They wave and say bye.)

Jane:
Mary Poppins you won’t ever leave us will you?

Mary:
Do you have your handkerchief dear?

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