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Speaker 1: Mary Poppins is on at Crown Theater from now until

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Speaker 1: October twenty two. Tickets are through a ticket Master and

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Speaker 1: one of the greats of theater, Patty Newton, is playing

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Speaker 1: bird Woman and she joins us now, Hello, Patty moy, Patty, Hello,

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Speaker 1: how are you?

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Speaker 2: Lisa and Clazie?

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Speaker 1: Very well now, Patty, It's it's been a while since

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Speaker 1: you've done a stage show, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: How is it to be back?

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Speaker 2: Well, look, it's fabulous. It's what do they say, It's

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Speaker 2: like getting back on the horse or whatever.

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Speaker 4: That's the horse back on the bike.

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Speaker 2: But it's funny really, because I didn't intend this to happen.

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Speaker 2: It was just I don't know. I was feeling a

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Speaker 2: bit down with Bert and with everything that happened, and

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Speaker 2: wasn't too sure how I was coping and how I

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Speaker 2: was going to cope. And because of that, I thought

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Speaker 2: I probably need to do something different. And when I

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Speaker 2: got the call, I thought, well, this could be sent

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Speaker 2: from heaven really, because it's a love role and it's

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Speaker 2: very I mean, it's a beautiful character and a lovely song.

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Speaker 2: It's only a cameo role, so it's not like I

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Speaker 2: have major stuff to learn, and I felt that it

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Speaker 2: would be very happy with me doing it. Absolutely, that's

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Speaker 2: how it all began.

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Speaker 3: Yes, he said, I think absolutely.

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Speaker 2: I know I have asked him, would you, you know,

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Speaker 2: think of a few other things to send me, like,

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Speaker 2: you know, a large check or tas lotto.

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Speaker 3: Or something numbers?

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Speaker 4: I might send you one hundred thousand Instagram following Patty,

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Speaker 4: who knows, I.

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Speaker 2: Might rather tat Loto?

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Speaker 3: I think, right, Patty.

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Speaker 4: I always wondered, if there's someone professional like yourself, how

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Speaker 4: do you go with nerves? Of course, if you're not

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Speaker 4: nervous before walking on stage, you don't care, But how

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Speaker 4: do you go with nerves before you step out there?

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Speaker 2: Look, I'm one of the worst. I would think. I've

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Speaker 2: got all these rituals, and I watch other people with

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Speaker 2: the things they do, and you know, it's funny. When

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Speaker 2: Bert was in hospital, he had this little cross and somebody,

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Speaker 2: a friend of mine, had sent it to him from Jerusalem,

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Speaker 2: and he used to like to hold his hand. It's

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Speaker 2: a little wooden one, and he kissed it and put

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Speaker 2: it back on the table. And I actually have it

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Speaker 2: with me at theater and I kiss it and put

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Speaker 2: it down before every time I go on stage, and

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Speaker 2: I have a photograph of Bert that I put it

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Speaker 2: beside and I talk to him and say come on.

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Speaker 2: And I've been very lucky because in all the theaters

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Speaker 2: we've worked at, there's been a little part of him there.

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Speaker 2: In the last theater in Adelaide, they have a lot

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Speaker 2: of photographs of all the different shows that have been

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Speaker 2: there at the theater. And right outside my dressing room

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Speaker 2: was a photograph of Birt when he was in Wizard

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Speaker 2: of Oce and I renight, I'd say, come on, here

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Speaker 2: we go, come on, hop on the shoulder, here we go.

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Speaker 2: And I think everybody's got their own little things, and

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Speaker 2: they helped me because I feel as though as long

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Speaker 2: as I know what I'm doing, but I, like everyone

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Speaker 2: else's had a few funny little things where I've changed

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Speaker 2: the lines around.

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Speaker 3: And I was going to.

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Speaker 1: Ask, is that your only ritual per se? Because you

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Speaker 1: Thespians are renowned for having all these weird things you've

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Speaker 1: got to do before you go on stage every night

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Speaker 1: that has to be done the same way or something

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Speaker 1: you know, to make.

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Speaker 3: Sure all goes well, and so chuckers do each other.

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Speaker 3: You can't mention Macbeth.

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Speaker 2: I have a have an asthmas bray that I go.

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Speaker 2: I didn't have asthma until I got COVID, but now

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Speaker 2: I do.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Then I say, come on, Bert, here we go. And

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Speaker 2: I kissed the cross and put it down, and then

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Speaker 2: I walk on stage, and whoever is standing by side

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Speaker 2: of stage as I go on, we do a fist

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Speaker 2: fish and then I bless myself and I walk on.

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Speaker 4: Very good was comforting things to get to, so when you're.

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Speaker 2: Sitting in the audience, you'll know that, well, she's just

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Speaker 2: blessed herself, and she's done a couple of fist hits

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Speaker 2: and she's there.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Mary Poppins is full of such amazing, uplifting songs that

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Speaker 1: adults and kids.

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Speaker 3: Are like love.

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Speaker 1: Do you ever manage to stand side of stage at

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Speaker 1: other times that you're not on and see the audience's

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Speaker 1: reaction to what's happening, Well, we.

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Speaker 2: Do because there are lots of monitors at the back

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Speaker 2: of stage where you can see the musical director and

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Speaker 2: behind him you can also see a lot of the

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Speaker 2: audience members, and you can see when they're laughing, when

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Speaker 2: they're yawning, when they're blowing the nose, when they're sort

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Speaker 2: of not terribly interested, or when they're going hysterical. So

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Speaker 2: I love all that. I love their reactions. But look,

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Speaker 2: it's a wonderful show because there's a big message to

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Speaker 2: it and if children have never been to theater before,

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Speaker 2: this is the perfect show to go to, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Because Mary Poppins tries to teach them that don't just

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Speaker 2: see what you're looking at, you have to look deeper.

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Speaker 2: And I'm a perfect example because I wear rags and

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Speaker 2: i have dirt on my face, and you know, I'm

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Speaker 2: not terribly pleasant for little children to look at. But

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Speaker 2: by the end of the show, they love me and

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Speaker 2: they realize that even though I haven't got much Marina

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Speaker 2: pryor Nancy Hayes did in Sydney, Marina in Melbourne, and

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Speaker 2: we've all talked about this and we all feel the

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Speaker 2: same that the bird Woman has probably fallen on hard times,

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Speaker 2: but she is one of those people that wants to

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Speaker 2: help still, so in her own little special way, she's

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Speaker 2: feeding the birds to keep them healthy and alive. And

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Speaker 2: that's what she's trying to teach the children, that you

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Speaker 2: can do anything in life if you really want to,

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Speaker 2: anything can happen. And as the song says anything can

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Speaker 2: happen and if you'll at it, and that's one of

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Speaker 2: the whole themes to it. If you, if you think

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Speaker 2: hard enough, good things can always happen around you.

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Speaker 4: Kids can sense there good Hey, Patty's super califragilistic X.

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Speaker 4: Can you spell it for us?

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Speaker 2: I'll take it. I shouldn't tell you this, but in

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Speaker 2: the end we do a big number, and you know,

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Speaker 2: we all have to do movements to every letter, and

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Speaker 2: KK the choreographer, I can't do two things at once.

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Speaker 2: I'm either going to do the steps or do the words.

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Speaker 2: So it's better for me to do the step, So

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Speaker 2: I go, you know, sup r L and I all

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Speaker 2: the movements right. That's any short I can do that

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Speaker 2: I can't do long. That's why the children are so

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Speaker 2: fabulous because you know, I suppose it's uncluttered mind, but

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Speaker 2: they get they get every word and they get it

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Speaker 2: movements as well. They can do the two things at once. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I'm like an older you like me.

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Speaker 4: Well, they've had parents in front of them recently mouthing

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Speaker 4: everything as well.

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Speaker 1: It's exactly yes, and it's exactly what you said, luster mind.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, little fresh brains, they've.

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Speaker 2: Got Mary, Mary and Jack Step and Jack to main

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Speaker 2: leads and how could I not do a show with

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Speaker 2: the leading man's name being Bert. It's meant to be,

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Speaker 2: meant to.

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Speaker 1: Be, absolutely meant to be, and they are so fabulous.

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Speaker 1: It is the perfect role bird woman. I think it's fantastic.

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Speaker 1: You're fantastically When you see.

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Speaker 2: Just tap dance on the ceiling, that's you'll want to

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Speaker 2: be doing that. Were saying, I'm going to practice that,

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Speaker 2: and you see if I can stand on the feeling

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Speaker 2: again just like him.

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Speaker 1: It is a pretty amazing I do remember that from

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Speaker 1: the last time that Mary puffed.

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Speaker 2: Incredible but very moving at the end when Mary flies

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Speaker 2: over the top of the audience. I watch it from

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Speaker 2: side of stage every night and I give a little

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Speaker 2: wave to Mary as she as she heads off in

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Speaker 2: front of the audience, and I get very emotional and

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Speaker 2: I get a lump in my throat because it's the

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Speaker 2: raw of the audience. When she flies across is just unbelievable.

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Speaker 4: On Wednesday, what happened, Well.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 3: Paople are going to love it. They're going to love it.

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Speaker 2: You'll know, and you know, even if you've seen it before,

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Speaker 2: you'll love it again. And you want to come again,

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Speaker 2: so I'm expecting you to come back twice. There'll be

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Speaker 2: big trouble, and Newton tells me, I'm.

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Speaker 3: On my way, don't you over that? Oh yeah?

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Speaker 1: Patty Newton can't wait to see as the bird Woman

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Speaker 1: in Mary Poppins, which is on at Crown Theater until

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Speaker 1: October twenty two.

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Speaker 3: Tickets are through Ticketmaster.

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Speaker 1: It has been an honor and a joy to have

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Speaker 1: a chat with you this morning, absolutely and for me too.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much for being so kind.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, thanks, Thanks Patty,