Supercalifragilistic, Pushy and Precocious! Or How Hundreds of Stage Children Queued for a Part in Mary Poppins, with Just a Little Shove From Their Mums ; (1)How I See It(2) Femail

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THE sobbing has started and the doors aren't even open yet. The queue is stretching right round the block and Jo Hawes and her team are already patrolling it with a marked pole.

Any children taller than the mark are, very gently, told that they will not be required. Some burst into tears. The sly - or the well-trained - try to bend their knees and drop below the marker. But they are not fooling Jo Hawes.

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Supercalifragilistic, Pushy and Precocious! Or How Hundreds of Stage Children Queued for a Part in Mary Poppins, with Just a Little Shove From Their Mums ; (1)How I See It(2) Femail

She has spent ten years as a children's administrator for top West End shows. She has seen every trick in the pushy mother repertoire.

And she has no doubt she will see them again in the days ahead as she embarks on the painstaking hunt to find four boys and four girls to star in one of the greatest theatrical events of recent years - the stage version of Mary Poppins.

The 1964 film ab...

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