FIRST ACT

There is Bert drawing and some people around him.

Song : Chim Chim Cheree
Wind's in the east, there's a mist comin' in
Like somethin' is brewin' and 'bout to begin
Can't put me finger on what lies in store
But I feel what's to 'appen all 'appened before
A father, a mother, a daughter, a son
The threads of their lives are all wrapped in and done
Somethin' is needed to twist 'em as tight
As a string you might use when you're flying a kite
Chim chiminy chim chim cheree chim cheroo

Bert: Oh! It’s you! Hello! Number 17 Cherry tree lane? O.K. follow me! This is Cherry Tree Lane. Nice little
spot. Here the old Admiral Bloom lives. He is famous for punctuality!
Admiral: The wind is coming up! Good afternoon, young man! Where are you going?
Bert: I have some guests! 17 Cherry tree lane!
Admiral: Be careful: storm at number 17!
Bert: Thank you good- bye…
Here we are: 17 Cherry tree lane. The residence of George Banks.

Noises come from behind the curtain and Katy Nana, Helen, Mrs. Brills come out
Katy Nana: I wouldn’t stay in this house another minute!
Helen: No, no, Katie Nana, please don’t go!
Katie Nana: Stand away from the door, my girl.
Mrs. Brill: I have never liked her! From the moment she opened the door!
Katy Nana: Don’t worry! You will never see me again!
Helen: Who will look after the children with no nanny in the house? Me!
Oh, please don’t go Katy nana!
Katy Nana: I wouldn’t stay in this house another minute!
Mrs. Brill: Hip hip hooray!
(Mother comes in)
Mrs. Banks: Good evening Katy Nana.
Katy Nana: I am glad you are at home, madam.
Mrs. Banks: Thank you, Katy Nana.
Katy Nana: I have something to say to you.
Mrs. Banks: What is it? Where are the children?
Katy Nana: The children Madame, to be precise are not here. They have disappeared again!
Mrs. Banks: Katy Nana, this is really careless of you. This is the third time this week.
Katy Nana: To be precise the fourth and the last for me! I’ve finished.
Mrs. Banks: You are not leaving Katy Nana! Please, reconsider! Think of the children. Think of Mr. Banks.
Katy Nana : My wages please..
(Father arrives)
Mr. Banks: Hello Katy Nana. Let me help you! What a pretty hat!
(Katy Nana leaves)

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Mr. Banks: (singing) I feel a surge of deep satisfaction
Much as a king astride his noble steed - thank you.
When I return from daily strife, to hearth and wife
How pleasant is the life I lead
Mrs. Banks: Dear, it's about the children.
Mr. Banks: Yes, yes, yes.
SONG: The life I lead
I run my home precisely on schedule
At 6:01 I march through my door
My slippers, sherry and pipe are due at 6:02
Consistent is the life I lead
Mrs. Banks: George, they are missing.
Mr. Banks: Splendid. Splendid.
It's grand to be an Englishman in 1910
King Edward's on the throne it's the age of men
I'm the lord of my castle the sovereign, the liege
I treat my subjects, servants children, wife with a firm but gentle hand,
noblesse oblige
It's 6:03 and the heirs to my dominion
Are scrubbed and tubbed and adequately fed
And so I'll pat them on the head and send them off to bed
Ah, lordly is the life I lead
Winifred, where are the children?
Mrs. Banks: They are not here dear!
Mr. Banks: Of course they are! Where else can they be?
Mrs. Banks: I don’t know. They are missing. Katy Nana has looked everywhere.
Mr. Banks: Katy nana …. Oh, she’s gone …
Give me the police station! ... George Banks here. Yes, 17 Cherry Tree Lane. I need a policeman here
immediately.
(The doorbell rings. Mother opens the door)
Mrs. Banks: The policeman is here George!
Mr. Banks: Well, very prompt. Wonderful service. Thank you so much! Good night! Come in officer, come
in!
Policeman: Thank you sir. I noted in the park some valuables and I believe they are yours, sir.
Mr. Banks: Valuables?
Policeman: Come along, now. Come along.
Mrs. Banks: Jane! Michael!
Mr. Banks: Winifred, please. Don’t be emotional!
Policeman: Don’t be too hard. They are tired.
Mr. Banks: Children, come here at once.
Jane: I’m sorry we lost Katy Nana, father.
Michael: It was windy…
Jane: and the kite was too strong for us.
Policeman: The kite ran away … not the children!

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Jane: The kite was not a good kite…
Michael: Maybe if you help us to make a new kite.
Policeman: Oh what a nice idea!
Mr. Banks: Thank you! I think I can manage this.
Policeman: I go back to my duties! Good night miss, madam, sir.
Mrs. Banks: I am terribly sorry, George. I think you want to discuss it.
Mr. Banks: Helen, take Jane and Michael upstairs!
Helen: Yes, sir.
Mrs. Banks: I am very sorry dear! When I chose Katy Nana I thought she would be firm with the children.
She looked so solemn. I’ll do better next time.
Mr. Banks: Next time? You chose six nannies in the last four months and they were a complete disaster. I’ll
select the next person. I’ll put an advertisement in The Times. Write this.
“Wanted a nanny: firm, respectable, no nonsense.
A British nanny must be a general
The future empire lies in her hands
And so the person that we need
To mold the breed
Is a nanny who can give commands.”
Mrs. Banks: Splendid George!
(Jane and Michael come back)
Jane: Father! We discussed and we are sorry.
Michael: We want to help you to find a new nana. We wrote an advertisement.
Mr. Banks: Advertisement for what?
Michael: For the new nanny.
Mr. Barks: You wrote an advertisement.
Jane: “wanted: a nanny for two adorable children”

SONG: The perfect nanny

Mr. Banks: Thank you, very interesting and now go to bed!

Jane, Michael: Good night mum, good night dad.
Mrs. Banks: George, they wanted to help.
Mr. Banks: Play games, sing songs, that’s ridiculous!
“A British nanny must be a general.
The future empire lies within her hands.
So the person that we need is a nanny who can give commands.
Tradition, discipline and rules must be her tools; without them:
disorder, catastrophe, anarchy!”
Now it’s time for action. The Times please …
Mrs. Banks: Splendid George!!!

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 SECOND ACT
On stage in 3 different corners there are the sailor and admiral, Mr. Banks and Helen and the 2 children.
Sailor: The wind has changed, sir! Sir? Have a look!
Admiral: What is it? Gosh! What an incredible crew!
Helen: There are many nannies outside, sir.
Mr. Banks: Helen, I said 8 o’clock.
Michael: Look! They are horrible! Who are they?
Jane: They are nannies.
Michael: Nannie??
Jane: I don’t understand. They are not what we advertised for.

(The nannies fly away) DANCE (they come in front and the 3groups go back)
Michael: What’s happening?
Jane: Wind is blowing.
Michael: Look at the nannies…it’s a trick…
Jane: Michael, take a look! It’s her! Rosy cheeks and everything.
Michael: Maybe it is a witch.
Jane: No, witches have brooms not umbrellas…

Mr. Banks: Helen, it is now 8:00. Let the nannies come in. One at a time.
Helen: Yes, sir. You may come in, one at a time.
(Mary comes in)
Mary: Are you the father of Jane and Michael Banks? Are you the father of Jane and Michael Banks?
Mr. Banks: Yes, of course. Your references?
Mary: References are a very old fashion idea. Now, my qualifications:
 have a cherry disposition: I’m never cross
 play games: I am sure the children will find my games very interesting
 be kind: I am kind but extremely firm …
Mr. Banks: What … ?
Mary: Are you OK, sir!
Mr. Banks: Yes, yes,…
Mary: I require every second Tuesday off.
Mr. Banks: Every second Tuesday ….yes, yes …
Mary: I’ll give you one week. I’ll see the children now. Thank you.
Mr. Banks: Yes, yes …
Mary: I’ll see the children now.
Mrs. Banks: George, what are you doing? Aren’t you interviewing the nannies?
Mr. Banks: Oh, yes. I’ve done!
Mrs. Banks: Have you already selected the new nanny?
Mr. Banks: Yes, I have done!
Mrs. Banks: How clever you are!!!

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 THIRD ACT
Mary: Close your mouth please, Michael. Come on, spit spot.
Michael: What sort of bag is it?
Mary: Carpet!
Michael: Is it a carpet?
Mary: No, it’s made of carpet.
Jane: The nursery isn’t very tidy. This is your room, there is a lovely view of the park.
Mary: Well, it’s not exactly Buckingham Palace, but it’s clean. It needs a touch here and there: a hat stand,
a mirror, a plant and a lamp!
Michael: There was nothing in it!
Mary: Never judge things from their appearance.
Michael: Better keep an eye on her. She’s tricky!
Jane: She is wonderful.
Mary: Where is it?
Jane: What?
Mary: My tape measure. Here it is! Come on, quickly! Michael: extremely stubborn and suspicious.
Michael: I am not!
Mary: Jane: rather incline to laugh; don’t put things away.
Michael: What about you?
Mary: Me? Ok! “Mary Poppins: practically perfect in every way”.
Jane: Mary Poppins! It’s a lovely name.
Mary: Thank you. The first game is: well begun is half done.
Michael: I don’t like it.
Mary: Or … let’s tidy up the nursery.
Michael: I told you she was tricky.
Mary: Shall we begin?
Jane: Is it a game Mary Poppins?
Mary: It depends on your point of you. In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You
find the fun and snap, the job's a game.

SONG: JUST A SPOON FULL OF SUGAR

Mary: That is quite sufficient. Hats and coats, please. It’s time for our outing in the park.
Michael: I don’t want to go to the park. I want to tidy up the nursery again.
Mary: Spit spot, and off we go.
Mary, Jane, Michael (singing): For a spoonful of sugar…

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 FOURTH ACT
Bert: Hello! Today, I am an artist. Stop. Don’t move! Don’t move a muscle. Stay where you are. I know you
… Mary Poppins.
Mary: It’s nice to see you again Bert. Do you know Jane and Michael?
Bert: Hello Jane, hello Michael.
Jane: Hello! Mary Poppins is taking us to the park.
Bert: To the park! No, not Mary Poppins. When you are with Mary Poppins ..the most incredible things
begin to happen.
Mary: What are you talking about?
Bert: Look! Where would you like to go?
Michael: That’s lovely. I like this one.
Jane: I’d like to go there.
Bert: A typical English countryside. There’s a local fair at the end of the road.
Michael: I can’t see any roads.
Bert: No roads! There it is. A road for high adventures.
Michael: Oh Mary Poppins, please! It’s such a lovely place.
Jane: Do you think it’s a lovely place Mary Poppins?
Bert: It’s your turn Mary Poppins, no one is looking!
Jane, Michael: Mary Poppins, please.
Mary: I have no intention to make a spectacle of myself, thank you.
Bert: All right. I’ll do myself.
Mary: Do what?
Bert: A bit of magic!
Michael: Magic?
Bert: It’s easy! You think, you wink, you do a double wink, you close your eyes and jump!
Jane: Is something supposed to happen?
Mary: Bert, what a nonsense! Why do you always complicate everything? Give me your hands, please. It’s
quite simple! One, two, three.

(They jump, the lights go off and the scene changes with Jolly Holiday music)
Bert: Mary Poppins, you look beautiful.
Mary: Do you really think so?
Bert: Yes, I do.
Mary: You look fine, too, Bert.
Michael: You said, there was a fair.
Bert: Down the road.
Jane: Come on let’s go! (Jane and Michael leave)
Mary: Be careful! Don’t fall and smash the drawing!

SONG: IT’S A JOLLY HOLYDAY WITH MARY

Bert: Waiter!
Mary: Well, I’ll start with raspberry ice and then some cakes and tea.
Penguin: Order what you will.
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Penguin: There’ll be no bill.
Penguin: It’s complementary.
Mary: You are very kind.
Penguin: Anything for you Mary Poppins.
Penguin: You are our favourite person.

PENGUIN DANCE
(Penguins leave and children and Mar and Bert come back on horses)
Michael: My horse is the fastest. Hurry up!
Mary: Not so fast Michael! Bert please. Please, control yourself. We are not on a race horse. Follow me.
Oh riders. Would you be so kind as to let me pass?
Riders: Certainly Madam.
Mary: Thank you!
Riders: Not at all, madam!
Photographer: Excellent time! You are the winner!
Journalist: Mary Poppins: practically perfect in every way!
Photographer: Can I take a photo?
Journalist: How do you feel to be the winner? Can you find words to say it?
Mary: Gentlemen, please. On the contrary there is a very good word. Am I right Bert?
Bert: Tell them what it is!

SONG: SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIRALIDOCIOUS

Mary: Jane, Michael stay close now. Oh, Bert all your fine drawings.
Bert: No problem! This is chestnut weather.
Mary: Come on children.
Jane, Michael: Good bye Bert!
Bert: Bye Jane, bye Michael.

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 FIFTH ACT
Michael: No, no I don’t want your medicine!
Jane: Do we have to?
Mary: People who get their feet wet must learn to take their medicine!
Michael: Strawberry! Mmmm …
Jane: Lime cordial! Delicious!
Mary: Rum punch! Quite satisfactory.
Jane: Mary Poppins, you’ll never leave us!
Mary: Have you got a handkerchief under your pillow?
Michael: Will you stay if we promise to be good?
Mary: I’ll stay until the wind changes. Now, silence. It’s time to go to sleep. Children who are going on an
outing with their father must sleep.
Michael: An outing?
Jane: With father?
Mary: Yes!
Michael: I don’t believe it. He never takes us out!
Jane: Where is he taking us?
Mary: To the bank.
Michael: To the bank?
Jane: Oh, Michael! The city! We will see many things.
Mary: Well, sometimes the person we love can’t see past the end of his nose.
Jane: His nose?
Mary: Yes, sometimes little things are quite important.
Michael: Look, the cathedral!
Jane: Dad goes there every day!
Mary: Now, silence. It’s time to go to sleep.
Michael: I don’t want to sleep.
Jane: We are too excited.
SONG: FEED THE BIRDS
(While Mary Poppins sings the bird woman comes in)

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 SIXTH ACT
Mr. Banks: Remember: the bank is a decorous place, so you must control yourself.
Jane: Michael look!
Michael: It’s her.
Mr. Banks: Who? Who is it?
Michael: The birds woman.
Bird woman: Feed the birds. Tuppence a bag.
Jane: Can you see her, father?
Mr. Banks: Yes, of course.
Michael: Listen, she’s saying it.
Bird woman: Feed the birds. Tuppence a bag.
Mr. Banks: Well of course she is saying it! What else would she be saying!
Jane: May we feed the birds, father?
Michael : I have money from my money box.
Jane: Just this once, please!
Mr. Banks: Waste your money feeding the birds … certainly not!
Michael: But it’s my tuppence…
Jane: But Mary Poppins says ...
Mr. Banks: I’m not interested in what Mary Poppins says! When we get to the bank I’ll show you what you
can do with your tuppence. And you‘ll find it extremely interesting.
Michael: but I want to feed the birds!

(The bankers enter. They make a circle and sing dancing around Jane and Michael)
Old Dawes: Feed the birds and what have you got? Fat birds. But…
All from tuppence, prudently, fruitfully, frugally, invested in the
to be specific in the Dawes, Tomes, Mousely, Grubbs,
Fidelity, Fiduciary bank.
Bankers:
Tuppence, prudently, fruitfully, frugally, invested in the
to be specific in the Dawes, Tomes, Mousely, Grubbs,
Fidelity, Fiduciary bank.

Old Dawes: Welcome to our joyful family of investors.

Michael: Give me back my money!
Mr. Banks: Jane, Michael come here!
Jane: Michael, let’s go!
Mr. Dawes: Stop those children!
Jane: Michael run!
(jane and Michael run off the stage. It gets dark and everybody leaves)

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 SEVENTH ACT

Michael: Help! Leave my sister!

Bert: Ehi! I’m your friend!
Jane: Bert, it’s you!
Bert: At your service.
Michael: You are dirty!
Bert: Yes, today I’m a chimney sweep.
Jane: We are so terrified!
Bert: Where are you running? Who is after you?
Michael: Father!
Bert: Father! Why? Your father is a good gentleman and he loves you.
Michael: We were in the bank …
Jane: I don’t know what we did … it was something terrible …
Michael: Father sent the police, the army … after us …
Jane: Michael don’t exaggerate!
Bert: There must be a mistake! Your father loves you!
Michael: I don’t think so.
Jane: He doesn’t love us!
Michael: You should have seen the look in his face!
Bert: Oh now! Let’s sit down. Listen. Your father is in a cold bank day after day, surrounded by cold money.
He is in a cage.
Michael: In a cage?
Bert: They make cages in all sizes. Bank-shape cages!
Jane: But we are in trouble now!
Bert: Are you sure? You are lucky. Your mother, Mary Poppins and I look after you. But who looks after
your father?
Jane: Bert, do you think father needs our help?
Bert: I only observe that a father can need a bit of help. Come on, let’s go home.

SONG: CHIM CHIM CEREE

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 EIGHTH ACT
Helen: The children madam!
Mrs. Banks: Where is father? Weren’t you with him? You haven’t been running away?
Bert: They haven’t run away but they’ve been frightened and they need someone to look after them.
Mrs. Banks: Oh, of course, Mary Poppins! Oh no, it’s her day off!... Oh, Helen will you?
Helen: No, Madam, I haven’t cleaned the house.
Mrs. Banks: What about you sir, you’ve been so kind?
Bert: Well madam… I’m a chimney sweep…
Mrs. Barks: Chimney! How clever of you to know! Our chimney is in such a horrible condition! Thank you
soo much. Besides it will amuse the children!
Bert: But..
Mrs. Banks: Goodbye, you are so gentle.
Bert: Let’s clean the chimney.
Michael: I wish we could go up there.
Jane: I like chimneys.
Bert: Rightly so. A chimney is a wondrous thing. It's built tall up there on the roof.
The wind blows across her top and draws the smoke right up the flue.
Feel the pull on the end of that brush.
Michael: It's like you've got a whale at the end of the line, isn't it?
Jane: Michael, be careful!
Mary: Things happen around fireplaces.
Bert: Oh, bother.
Jane: Michael! Michael, come back down here!
Bert: Michael, Michael, where are you? That's a bit awkward.
Mary: Stop putting ideas in their heads. There goes another one.
Bert: Shall I go after them?
Mary: They can't gallivant up there like kangaroos.
(Mary and Bert go up the chimney too)
Mary: Will you put your things on? Hurry up. Spit spot.
Bert: Thought you'd left.
Jane/ Michael: We didn't mean to.
Bert: No harm done. Truth is, this is a fortuitous circumstance. Look there.
A trackless jungle just waiting to be explored. Why not, Mary Poppins?
Jane /Michael: Oh, please, Mary Poppins.
Mary: Oh, well... if we must, we must. Get in line. Attention! Right turn! Quick march!

SONG: CHIM CHIMNEY

DANCE: STEP IN TIME

Admiral: What’s that? We are under attack! Here we go!

Sailor: Ready sir!
Admiral: Stand by. Fire!
Mrs. Brill: Ah! They are here again!
Mrs. Banks: Helen, when you have a second, please!
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Chimney Sweeps: Vote for women!
Helen: It’s the master!
Chimney Sweeps: It’s the master.
Mr. Banks: What’s all this?
Chimney Sweeps: What’s all this?
Mary: Bert?
Chimney sweeps: Good luck! Lovely time! Thank you, sir!
Michael: Good luck, sir!
Jane: Oh father, the chimney sweeps have shaken your hands! Father you’ll be the luckiest person in the
world!
Mary Poppins: Come along children. Spit spot.
Mr. Banks: Just a moment. Mary Poppins will you explain? What’s all this about?
Mary: First of all, I never explain anything! Children, let’s go upstairs. Spit-spot.
(The telephone rings.)
Mr. Banks: Yes, Mr. Banks here! Yes, … I’ll be there at nine o’clock!
Mr. Banks: My world was calm well ordered...Exemplary. Then came this person Mary Poppins..
Bert: I know the person... Mary Poppins. She's the one what sings...
A spoonful of sugar that is all it takes it change bread and water into tea and cakes
Mr. Banks: That's it exactly! Changing bread into cakes, indeed…You know what she did? I realise it now.
She tricked me into taking Jane and Michael to the bank.
Bert: Tricked you into that? Outrageous! A man as important as you? You don’t have time to stay with
your children…
Though childhood slips like sand in a sieve and soon they’ll be grown and then it’s too late for you to give…
(Whistling a spoonful of sugar he leaves) Goodbye sorry for the trouble.
Jane: Father, we are sorry about the tuppence.
Michael: Here father! You can have the tuppence!
Jane: Does that make everything all right?
Mr. Banks: Yes, thank you!

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 NINTH ACT

Mr. Dawes: Come in! Take off your hat, Banks.

Mr. Banks: Good evening, sir.
Mr. Dawes: From 1773 there has not been a run on this bank until today! A run caused by the disgraceful
conduct of your children
Mr. Banks: I assume responsibility for my children.
Mr. Dawes: Go on, go on.
Old Dawes: Do you have something to say, Banks?
Mr. Banks: Well… just one word, sir.
Old Banks: Yes?
Mr. Banks: Supercalifragilistic-expiralidocious.
Old Dawes: What?
Mr. Banks: Supercalifragilistic-expiralidocious. Mary Poppins is right.
It’s extraordinary. I feel better. I feel much better.
Mr. Dawes: Banks, where are you going?
Mr. Banks: I don’t know!!!!

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 TENTH ACT
Admiral: Wind is coming around from the west!
Michael: She doesn’t care of us!
Jane: She promised to stay until the wind changes.
Mary: Give me my mirror, please.
Jane: Mary Poppins, don’t leave us, please!
Helen: He is in the river Thames!
Mrs. Brill: He will never come back again!
(Father comes in)
Mrs. Banks: George, you didn’t jump in the river!
Policeman: Sir, he’s been found! Alive! He is kissing Mrs. Banks.
Mrs. Banks: George, I have been so worried! What happened?
Mr. Banks: Where are the children?
Jane, Michael?
Mary: Jane, Michael, your father is calling you!
Michael: It doesn’t sound our father!
Mr. Banks: Jane, Michael?
Mary: Come on! Go! Spit- spot!
Jane: You won’t go away! Will you?
Mary: Spit-spot!
Michael: He mended it!
Jane: How did you manage?
Mrs. Banks: A new kite needs a new tail.
(The Banks family goes out singing)
SONG: LET’S GO FLY A KITE

Bert: Good bye Mary Poppins! Don’t stay away too long!

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