Mary Poppins the Radical

So this week I got the opportunity to see the Broadway touring group perform Mary Poppins. I am proud to say I went with other college students and I was enchanted. The musical alone was spectacular.  When you add thought to it, as is a habit I developed because of a high school Japanese teacher (the skilled author Greg Park), Mary Poppins steps into a new light.

Once upon a time, right after they invented the car, I was a little girl. Like most kids, I watched Seasame Street, PBS kids, etc. But I LOVED to watch Disney movies. One of my favorites was Mary Poppins. What I didn’t catch on to then is that Mary Poppins is a radical. The most obvious example would be her interview. In both the play and the movie she claims references to be “a very old fashion idea.” And yet she’s conservative at the same time. 

So what’s the point? I’ll tell you! In the second half of the musical, the father’s old nanny comes into the picture. She is often referred to as “The Holy Terror” and she lives up to her name. I won’t give away any more of the play but I will say this; the battle between Mary Poppins and The Holy Terror mirror theories (Thanks again to Mr. Park) into a modern dilemma. New vs Old. Hard vs Soft. and so on. What I got from this play is that just because somethign is new doesn’t mean it’s bad. Other things I learned:

• Sometimes you got to let things work themselves out.
• Sometimes, ideas are not flawed, the person trying it is.
• “It’s hard to teach someone who already knows everything.” (This goes with the above statement.)
• Although there is no such thing as magic, there can still be magical moments. (The set was incredible! And the magic tricks! Still trying to figure it out.)
• There will always be people there to step in just in time. The clip is a little long but so worth it.
• Nothing is as good as the real thing.
• My Mass Media teacher is right. There is a message and purpose in everything media.
• Anything can happen if you let it.
• Kite flying is for everyone.
• Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a really really good word to have in your vocabulary. It also works in every situation.

Mary Poppins still continues to blow my mind and change my life. Don’t wish to be younger ever again. We’ve had our time. I prefer to be an adult then a child. Every time I watch a movie a get something different. Here’s a challenge for you. Watch a movie you loved as a child that you haven’t seen for a while and see what new things you catch or learn that you didn’t before. If you have a blog, write about it! Leave a link in a comment below! Do it! And love it! Anything can happen if you let it.

aubz out.

I’d just like to say… Hellooooo!

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Hey you! Ya you! You know who you are. You are just like me, living in the same world, breathing the same air, wasting time online… wait. You’re not wasting time! Because this blog will blow your mind with my infinite plethora of knowledge, know-how and occasional humor.

Now let’s be honest, the outlook for our generation is, well, not too good. Remember in junior high how everything was going to fantastic in the future and we would have it better then the guy before us? That is no longer true. I have been hearing more and more about how we’re suppose to have a shorter life expectancy then our parents and we are also the first generation to have worse then those before us. How depressing is that? (right answer: morbidly depressing.) It doesn’t end there however.

Before, people had a physical self and spiritual/mental self. We have another world to conquer my friends. The cyber world. Sense there isn’t a name (that I am aware of) for the online-self I hereby name it… alter-ego-cyber-self. Also called ACES (alter-cyber-ego-self. I made the word, i’m allowed to rearrange it how I want.). With my guidance you will become an ace of ACES.

And so much more. Sadly, most of us don’t have the attention span to handle much more. So go ahead with your web surfing and time wasting and don’t forget to check back for more.