1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:03,000 Speaker 1: This is jam Nation with Jonesy. 2 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:08,879 Speaker 2: One of the most iconic characters from our childhood is 3 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:13,400 Speaker 2: Mary Poppins. Well, Mary Poppins, the Australian premiere is on 4 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,320 Speaker 2: at the Sydney Lyric Theater starting May twenty six. Ticket 5 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:17,799 Speaker 2: toron sal at ticketmaster dot com. 6 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:19,640 Speaker 1: Dot are you the star of Mary Poppins? 7 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:22,280 Speaker 2: Mary Poppins herself is Stephanie Jones, who joins us now, 8 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 2: Hello Stephanie, Hello, good morning. 9 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:26,639 Speaker 1: And would you say that she? I guess she is 10 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 1: the star? 11 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 3: What about Bert the old Bamboo the guy that Dick 12 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 3: van Dyke did. 13 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:32,600 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, what an iconic role that is as well? 14 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 4: You can't have Mary without Bert. There are two peas 15 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 4: in a pod? 16 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 1: Were they Bert? Let's talk about you? 17 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 3: Well, I just want to mind the relationship between Burt 18 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:41,480 Speaker 3: and Mary. 19 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:43,519 Speaker 1: No, but they were just they were friends, weren't they. 20 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:44,159 Speaker 1: There wasn't like. 21 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:48,560 Speaker 4: A well, actually, there are a few interesting ideas about 22 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 4: Burt and Mary's relationship, one of them being that perhaps 23 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 4: Mary used to nanny Burt when he was a child, 24 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 4: and part of Bert's magic is that he's grown up 25 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 4: and hasn't for gotten about her, whereas all the other 26 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 4: children do eventually grow up and move out of that 27 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 4: childhood wonder and do forget about the magic. But Bert 28 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 4: hasn't so Bert's conspiracy theory or is it? Maybe you 29 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 4: can call it that? 30 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 1: Wow? 31 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:20,600 Speaker 2: It is from what I hear, this show is mind 32 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:24,680 Speaker 2: blowingly visual. Like Mary fly, am I allowed to say? 33 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 2: Flies across the stage? Tell us what's involved with Mary? 34 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 4: Oh, there's a lot. It's going to be the biggest 35 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 4: role I think I've ever tackled. It's you know, she's 36 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 4: in almost every number. There's so much magic, there's prop scolore. 37 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 4: We have a little joke in the company that we're 38 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:45,119 Speaker 4: calling it Mary Proppin's Ah because there's constantly umbrellas and 39 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 4: magical things coming out of magical bags. So yes, visually 40 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 4: it's absolutely stunning. It's so nostalgic in a way, you know, 41 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 4: with how it represents London in that time and sort 42 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 4: of dark and gloomy and cloudy, and then everything just 43 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 4: turns to technicolor. So there's so much to love. And 44 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 4: you know, the really special thing about the very famous 45 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 4: number Supercolor Fragilistic ext Mealodocius is that the choreography is 46 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:14,360 Speaker 4: actually based off of sign language. Because the choreographer's partner 47 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 4: is deaf, and so all of the choreography in that 48 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 4: number has been based off of sign language. That's a 49 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,920 Speaker 4: very visual number as well. Yeah, it's just an incredible show. 50 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 4: I'm guessing you have to work with a variety of children. 51 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 4: How's that being? Oh, look, they're a delight. I do love. 52 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:31,639 Speaker 1: Crossing your fingers. 53 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:36,520 Speaker 4: They're so impressive these kids. I did sound a music 54 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:39,639 Speaker 4: many years ago with many, many, many Von Trapp children 55 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,079 Speaker 4: on rotation, so I do have a lot of experience 56 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:45,080 Speaker 4: working with kids. They can be the best and sometimes 57 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:46,839 Speaker 4: the hardest thing about it because they have so much 58 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:49,639 Speaker 4: to remember. But I'm very impressed with all of them. 59 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 4: We have four sets of two children on stage each night, 60 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 4: so lots of little Jan's and Michael's running around. 61 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 2: And what sort of training do you have to do 62 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 2: for a physical role like this. 63 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:03,639 Speaker 4: I've been working out a lot, like as a gym 64 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 4: you mean, yeah, yeah, well I've been avoiding the gym 65 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,519 Speaker 4: because of COVID, so I do my own home workouts, 66 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 4: and just because there's so much singing and dancing consecutively, 67 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 4: so you've got to really know how to control your 68 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 4: breath and have good fitness, and of course I've still 69 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:19,920 Speaker 4: been taking singing lessons. You know that never stops, just 70 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:24,360 Speaker 4: like a professional athlete never stops. Training for the Olympics. 71 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 2: Occurred to me, You still have singing. 72 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 1: And then the flying around with the umbrella. 73 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 4: Yeah, now that's something I don't know that you can. 74 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 1: Really prepare for. You prepare for that, No, I. 75 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:36,560 Speaker 4: Will only get to do it for the first time 76 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 4: once we're in the theater, once we have I have 77 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 4: not yet flown because. 78 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 3: Those guys that do the wires and stuff sometimes I 79 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 3: just worry because they're sometimes they're always like, now you'll 80 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 3: be right, just out how much you weigh again? 81 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: And then and all of a sudden you why would 82 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 1: you tell Stiffanie this? 83 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 2: But will that make a difference as to what you 84 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 2: have to wear under your clothes and things? 85 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 4: Yes, I have some really attractive padded bike shorts to 86 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 4: help not you know, hurt me when I have that 87 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 4: harness on. It's a long flight yet exactly so that 88 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 4: will be a lot of fun, very exciting to do 89 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 4: that every night. Such a reward. 90 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: Well, I'm so looking forward to. And be careful where 91 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 1: you leave your umbrella because that's pretty much your transport. Sure, exactly, 92 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:19,720 Speaker 1: Mary getting an. 93 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 4: Uber in all this rain, I have to be constantly 94 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 4: seen with an umbrella and now it can't be call 95 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:26,839 Speaker 4: without one trope. 96 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:29,239 Speaker 1: Stepanie, You're going to be great in this Mary Poppins. 97 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 3: The Australian premiere, opening at the Sydney Lyric on May 98 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:36,160 Speaker 3: twenty six. Tickets on sale at ticketmaster dot com dot 99 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 3: are you chuckers as we say. 100 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 4: Yes, that's exactly right. 101 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 1: They not wait to see it. Thank you, sir, thank 102 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 1: you for having me.