That was hard because although we had worked for almost a month and a half with the brooms and everything we’d been working on a plywood floor.Īnd all of a sudden we get out and we’re on a cobble stone street and there’s supposed to be four of us tumbling right next to each other and, you put the broom down. On the first day of filming, the first thing we shot is the very last thing you see – where we’re all dancing down the street at the end. Photo credit: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences And I don’t have a big chin but I used to have nightmares that I had tucked wrong and I would clip my chin, my teeth, my nose, you know, I mean I used to literally wake up sweating about it. “ The bad part was the chimney opening wasn’t that big. We would fall and hit a mattress on the floor and then roll out. So I would do my section, jump split and repeat but the third time we would have to tuck in and pull your knees up so you the technical guy could trip the chimney allowing us to fall into it.
“ The choreography wasn’t really done until we got there and they mounted it on us. The section of the film where we are jumping into the chimney puffs was done with a technical person underneath each of our chimneys, the chimney was solid with a cutout. It was blazing and they worked everything out on that sound stage, in the back lot with the choreography.“ We had to wear the name tags but we were allowed to rehearse in swim trunks because it was blazing back there. Walt was there every day, every single day. The rehearsals were held on the back lot. We also had to be able to tumble – some people were a lot better at that than others. There were 12 of us dancers and everybody was a really good trained dancer. It was very springy so no one’s legs would get messed up like you do dancing on the concrete or hard surfaces.Īctually, the entire set – all the rooftops, all the chimney tops, all the railings – everything was built as a floating unit because they didn’t really know what the configuration of the rooftop was going to be until the dance number (the Chimney Sweep dance number) was set. They built a special set on the back lot for us dancers. I don’t know how many of you live in the valley but it’s warm here.
#CHIMNEY SWEEP MARY POPPINS DANCE MOVIE#
“ The movie was rehearsed here in June and July of 1963. An Interview with Pete Menefee, Mary Poppins Chimney Sweep Pete Menefee took the time to chat with myself and a group of bloggers to discuss the time he spent in Hollywood, and more specifically his time spent working on Mary Poppins. It was such a treat to be able to sit down and hear all about his long career from the man himself.
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