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TR_Wolf

Supercali... dance?

I can spell Supercali in song now, but the dance is still baffling! Anyone know where I can learn the steps online? Smile
kitty17794

I think the only way would be to watch videos...there's a performance the cast did on the Today Show, I do believe, and it can be found on YouTube. But I doubt there's an actual step-by-step thing telling you how to do the moves. Smile
Thom

find someone who went to the show and purchased the souvenier program. there is a step by step instruction on each of the letters as done by burt (if that is what you are looking for).

~Thom
wicked_boy

If anyone's been to the show can they upload the step by step guide out of their brochures.
elphclaudia

It's in the brochure and the program.
TR_Wolf

The American programme?

I have the UK colour brochure, its not in there...
Jordan

It was when I saw it during the London previews.
TR_Wolf

GayBoy wrote:
It was when I saw it during the London previews.


Really? The programme or the colour brochure? I have the latter...
musikal_geek

Can someone pleeeeeeaaaaaase scan it? I really want to see this! Pray
wicked_boy

musikal_geek wrote:
Can someone pleeeeeeaaaaaase scan it? I really want to see this! Pray


I agree, I asked this earlier, no one noticed.
Jordan

I forget which. I believe it was in the souvenir brochure.

However, checking this: http://www.dresscircle.co.uk/product.asp?StockID=28674 it looks like they have changed it totally.
wicked_boy

GayBoy wrote:
I forget which. I believe it was in the souvenir brochure.

However, checking this: http://www.dresscircle.co.uk/product.asp?StockID=28674 it looks like they have changed it totally.


I think they've changed it 3/4 times now.
sherwills

would be cool if we could have a scanned copy. Applause
Dvarg

Is it only me who find it inappropriate that Mary Poppins, of all people, engage in a WMCA-esque choreography?

I've seen it on youtube, and think it's tacky.
sherwills

Dvarg wrote:
Is it only me who find it inappropriate that Mary Poppins, of all people, engage in a WMCA-esque choreography?

I've seen it on youtube, and think it's tacky.


nah, I don't think it's tacky at all. The song looked more interesting and really catchy for the younger audience.

I think what's tacky is if they start motioning to the audience to do the same during the performance.
musikal_geek

Ew! They do?!
mr.musical9

sherwills wrote:
Dvarg wrote:
Is it only me who find it inappropriate that Mary Poppins, of all people, engage in a WMCA-esque choreography?

I've seen it on youtube, and think it's tacky.


nah, I don't think it's tacky at all. The song looked more interesting and really catchy for the younger audience.

I think what's tacky is if they start motioning to the audience to do the same during the performance.




I DO(sorry for caps)n't remember them motioning the audience
on youtube.com
Mazz

Maybe they do on Broadway, but that dance is actually pretty hard to pick up. I don't think anyone could realistically expect the audience to join in beyond standing up and clapping.

They shape out the letters with mime. The fact that the YMCA dance does the same does not render this device 'inappropriate'. You have to look really hard to find any vice in this show. If you thought the YMCA echoes were a bad example for your children, you'd have to explain exactly what the YMCA song and dance is and why you don't like it to them, wouldn't you?
mr.musical9

Mazz wrote:
Maybe they do on Broadway, but that dance is actually pretty hard to pick up. I don't think anyone could realistically expect the audience to join in beyond standing up and clapping.

They shape out the letters with mime. The fact that the YMCA dance does the same does not render this device 'inappropriate'. You have to look really hard to find any vice in this show. If you thought the YMCA echoes were a bad example for your children, you'd have to explain exactly what the YMCA song and dance is and why you don't like it to them, wouldn't you?


i mean on broadway,
whoa!
you're probably right!

because the only full song of the broadway version is

1: taped in the theatre
2:aimed at the ceiling

you're prbably right
SunriseSunset

I've seen Mary Poppins twice on Broadway so far, and I have the program which I could scan, but it honestly won't help. Last time I saw it I also went to a workshop where Brian Letendre (who plays Neleus) taught us the Supercalifragilisicexpialidocious dance, and it's a little bit different than what it has in the program. In the Broadway dance, you don't spell out every letter at the end because it gets so fast, but in the program it has the actual letters because its a picture and not moving. (duh) Besides just learning the letters the transitions are pretty important too, so if you really wanna learn the dance, either take the workshop or study those videos on youtube!
Mazz

And of course the letters aren't always the same each time. 'A' has two versions, shaping 'A' and expressing 'eh?'.
SunriseSunset

So do "I" and "O"
Dvarg

Mazz wrote:
The fact that the YMCA dance does the same does not render this device 'inappropriate'. You have to look really hard to find any vice in this show. If you thought the YMCA echoes were a bad example for your children, you'd have to explain exactly what the YMCA song and dance is and why you don't like it to them, wouldn't you?


I don't find the song YMCA inappropriate. I find it inappropriate for the character of Mary Poppins to do motions that reminds everyone in the world of the YMCA song. She's not a disco queen.
Mazz

Hardly 'everybody in the world'. Like I said, it's a device that the two songs have in common. Can you really imagine Supercal - in which the main gimmick is the spelling - being choreographed in a way that does not spell it out? How else would you do it? And it looks nothing like disco.
Dvarg

Mazz wrote:
Can you really imagine Supercal - in which the main gimmick is the spelling - being choreographed in a way that does not spell it out? How else would you do it?


Well, I don't think they do the spelling gimmick in the movie, a version that works much better, imo. I think the spelling gimmick is incredibly stupid and tacky.
Pounce

Dvarg wrote:
Mazz wrote:
Can you really imagine Supercal - in which the main gimmick is the spelling - being choreographed in a way that does not spell it out? How else would you do it?


Well, I don't think they do the spelling gimmick in the movie, a version that works much better, imo. I think the spelling gimmick is incredibly stupid and tacky.

I agree. I think the stage show ruined it. The film version is much better. And I prefer the idea in the film of 'supercal...' is 'what you say when you don't know what to say' over the show's idea of it meaning what you want it to mean.
vtemusicalfreak

Me to! Very Happy it's such a nice scene. But it does look a little dificult Smile Though I'm a dancer Smile
Borb

Personally, I love the spelling choreography.

We did a huge mary poppins medley in Wavaires (show choir) this year.
We had characters, sets, and costumes.

Of course the end of the medley was supercal. Our choreographer adapted the spelling with bits of his own stuff. It ended up being really awesome! Needless to say, at the end of the fast spelling section the crowd went insane.

The thing is it is not as hard as it looks. Of course we did not do it perfectly like the Broadway cast.Smile
aaand SCENE

http://youtube.com/watch?v=x74Xm16QJGw

A month later..

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6D-eMWn474M

Very Happy
Colonel_Pickering

I remember that!!!! I was there at DTASC, Our group hung out at lunch time next to your group and I always wondered why you guys were dressed up. You guys were awesome!!!!

As for the YMCA thing added to mary poppins, it is what made me like the show even more and you got tor remember that stuff onstage and stuff onscreen are two major different things.
sgv123

i know the entire letter dance after watching their performance on the view about 20 times!
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