Mary Poppins II
Seen: May 28th, 2011
Circustheater, Scheveningen
Read about our first visit here!
As stated at the end of my first MP post, I wanted to see Noortje as Mary sooo bad, I just had to buy tickets again. I opted for a Saturday night, as that is the most likely performance to see the #1 cast and no understudies or alternates on stage.
Got the tickets as a Birthday present for Sabine, so the two of us went to Scheveningen and had a lovely junkfood dinner 🙂 We were crossing our fingers as we entered the theatre and looked for the announcement about that night’s cast… and almost screamed when we saw: Mary Poppins – Noortje Herlaar. YES YES YES!
I had a smile from ear to ear and I think I’ve been smiling the whole evening. Noortje as Mary was all I had hoped for… and more. She’s not ‘Practically Perfect’, she just IS perfect, period! What an actress and what a voice. I could finally enjoy the show and saw things I missed last time (because of me being sick :p)
The cast is an enthousiastic bunch of people! The eyes of the public are always on centre stage, so I had fun looking at different parts of the stage and still see concentration and devotion eventhough they were not in the spotlights. That’s how it should be and believe me, I’ve seen enough shows to know it can be different!
Last time we saw William Spaaij as Bert and although I would have loved to see William and Noortje act together (they became a couple in real life during the rehearsals and I’m a sucker for romance :D) it was a pleasant surprise to see Mathijs as Bert. Mathijs took part in the search for Joseph but was voted off in show 6. His Bert was great! And when we caught him on his way from the stagedoor to the tourbus, he turned out to be a really sweet guy (and according to Sabine: HOT! Lol)
On a side note, the majority of the cast lives in Amsterdam and it’s a hectic drive to Scheveningen (The Hague) that’s why most musical productions have a tourbus, so the cast can get to and from the theatre in a relaxed way instead of stressing through traffic jams.
We usually wait a little before we go to the stagedoor as the actors have to take their make up off, take a shower and drink something before they come out. This time we went straight after the performance and were happy we did as they all seemed to be in a hurry (I don’t even think Noortje took her make up off) and the bus left within 20 min. So we were lucky to catch up with Noortje and she willingly posed for pics. Bless her!
All in all a wonderful night. I finally got to see my heroine and enjoyed the show much more than last time.
Last week was announced that August 28th will be the final performance of Mary Poppins as the theatre has to get ready for WICKED!!! But that’s another story 😀
Here’s a video of the ‘Search for Mary Poppins’, with both Sophie (became alternate Mary Poppins) and Noortje singing ‘Practically Perfect’ in Dutch
