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For the next boaters rally our club has drawn Mary Poppins as the theme for the concert party.  They say they drew it out of the hat, I have my doubts about that I think that our representatives have secret desires for strict nannies and they deliberately chose Mary Poppins. 

But however we got it we are supposed to do a 15min performance on the theme of Mary Poppins which includes two songs and one dance routine. Last night we had a get together in the local to try and come up with ideas.  It appears that none of us can sing or dance or act. None of us has any great wish to get up on stage and perform. None of us can arrange music or choreograph dance routines. However, somebody’s mother has a pantomime cow so that might come in useful. 

There were plenty of ideas, the ideas seemed to become more bizarre and numerous in direct proportion to the amount of beer consumed.  We were all forgetting that our little group would have to be the ones to build the complex set, remember all the complicated words, play all the instruments and at the same time dance and sing. In retrospect it might be best to keep it simple. Then after all the flights of fancy about one man bands, flying Mary Poppins, gangome style Chimney sweeps, ostriches, dancing chimney pots and brushes, bottles and booze had been floated they said I had been given enough ideas to be able to construct a performance piece so go away and get on with it. Thanks friends.  

 
We have an ideal Mary Poppins but she said she’d have to have a lot to drink to do it. That can be arranged. Not sure about Bert yet but he needn’t worry about the cockney accent, anything would be better than Dick Van Dyke’s cockney accent. Last year we did a sketch based on King Canute. In the rehearsals King Canute tried a Danish accent, it started in Scandinavia then headed towards Africa hovered there for a while then moved on to India and Pakistan before coming back via Ireland and settling back down in the East Midlands.   It made us laugh but we were doing a serious piece of drama not a comedy so we ditched the accent.  In comparison to King Canute Bert’s accent will be a doddle.

We managed a performance last year so no doubt we’ll manage one this year.  How does Mary Poppins and the Pantomime Cow sound?
 
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