My Experience Flying as Mary Poppins: Part 1

 



My Experience Flying as Mary Poppins: Part 1


In a previous entry, I’ve talked about my experience playing Mary Poppins and mentioned that I learned to “fly” for the role, and I’m going to elaborate on that experience. I found out that “flying” was a thing in 2015 when I was in a production of Peter Pan. The person who played Peter flew all around the stage, and I was mesmerized just by the fact that he was actually flying. I also saw my castmates flying in when I was in Aladdin, and I thought it was absolutely amazing. I really wanted to try it, but the only way was to get a role in a show that was flying. There wasn’t a way I could guarantee that, so I just accepted that it was a dream that I was still working toward but didn’t exactly know how to achieve it. That was until I got the role of Mary Poppins, and she flew at a couple of points during the show. During rehearsals, I just walked onto the “stage” - quotes because there was no stage, it was just marked out on the floor how big the stage would be - when I would be flying. I didn’t start to learn to fly until a week before tech week. My mom and I went to a small warehouse where the company that flies people professionally was. They put me in a waist harness and clipped a wire on the left and the right of the harness. First, they slowly raised me a few feet off the ground. Then they slowly moved me to one side and back again. They did this so I could get used to how it felt to fly. It felt really cool, and it was so amazing to be doing something I didn’t know if I would ever get to do. In my next blog entry, I’ll talk more about how flying works and my experience actually flying during a performance.






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