Every year at SDA, there is the time around spring where musical theatre starts and the school is filled with about 50 students roaming around the halls singing the same songs over and over again. Last year it was “Honk,” and two years ago it was the infamous “Legally Blonde,” and this year it’s the dreamed-about “Mary Poppins.”

This musical was announced on Nov. 4 at the Thespian Honor Society meeting that happens every Tuesday at lunch in the PAC. It was announced through a PowerPoint that had at least 10 shows written on one page. Musical theatre teacher Stephanie Siers would cancel one of the plays out every couple seconds until it was down to no shows left on the page. Finally, she introduced a brand new slide after anxious moments from the thespians to announce that the spring musical would be “Mary Poppins.”

The musical will be taking place at the end of May in spring 2015 and the beginning of June. The musical theatre class will be putting on this show for six nights starting with Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of May 28 through the 30. Then, they will be ending the show on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of June 4 through the 6^.

The musical theatre students were more than excited to be doing this show and getting to be a part. They are already starting to get ready for the parts and learning all the lyrics to the songs. Thespian juniors Andrew Kenney and Will Fletcher have already started taking tap dance lessons to help them better their dance skills before auditions.

If you walk through the theatre even today, seven months in advance, the thespians are already learning every song from the musical and singing them every Tuesday at Thespian meetings. Thespian senior and club Treasurer Caity Cecio said, “You can definitely tell this is going to be one of the most popular musicals we will have done at SDA. It’s not until next semester and people are already preparing for auditions this early on.”

This might be one of the biggest shows SDA ever puts on technically as well. At the thespian meeting where the show was announced, Siers said, “There might be flying incorporated into the show” and “there will be multiple huge movable sets.”

This show is definitely going to be a huge show to put on with a lot of preparation and work by the musical theatre class to pull it together, but once they pull it together it will go down in SDA theatre history.