Fans of Julie Andrews, and there are plenty, are in for a treat at Drysdale’s Potato Shed on November 12.
HiT Productions’ Practically Perfect the Julie Andrews Story honours Dame Julie, who is fondly remembered as Maria in The Sound of Music and of course, the delightful nanny in Mary Poppins.
Producer and writer Margaret Fisk says the show delves into all Dame Julie’s movies, TV shows and stage musicals.
“They will find out a lot more about Julie Andrews than they thought they knew and songs that she sang that they thought she didn’t,” she says.
“We have a tap dance routine that she did with Sammy Davis Junior, we talk about her friendship with Carol Burnett and all her leading men and we touch on her love of her second husband Blake Edwards.”
The show is performed by Karla Hillman as Dame Julie and Jonathon Guthrie-Jones plays her leading men.
“Karla is the most beautiful Julie Andrews,” Ms Fisk says.
“I brought him (Guthrie-Jones) in for an audition and it was like Jono and Karla had known each other in a previous life. It just clicked in every sense of the word.”
It took Ms Fisk eight months to write the show.
“We also remind them that she voiced the Queen in Shrek,” she says.
“We talk about behind the scenes and some of what she had to do. There’s quite a lot of comedy in there as well.”
Practically Perfect the Julie Andrews Story is on Saturday November 12 at the Potato Shed, Drysdale at 8pm. Tickets potatoshed.com.au
