Mary Poppins - Broadway  

November 4, 2009

Wednesday 2:00pm

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Mary Poppins
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Based on P.I. Travers cherished stories and the classic 1964 Walt Disney film, Mary Poppins features the Sherman brothers original Academy Award-winning songs. The show has been created, in collaboration with Cameron Mackintosh, by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes, who has written the book, and the Olivier Award-winning team of George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, who have composed new songs and additional music and lyrics.

Olivier Award-winning director Richard Lyre leads a dream team of vision and stagecraft bringing to life the story of the Banks family and their magical nanny. Co-direction and choreography is by Olivier Award-winner Matthew Bourne, set and costume design is by Tony Award winner Bob Crowley, co-choreography is by Olivier Award-winner Stephen Mear, and lighting design is by Olivier Award-winner Howard Harrison.

Mary Poppins marks the first collaboration between Disney, producer of acclaimed The Lion King, Beauty & The Beast, and Tarzan, and Cameron Mackintosh, legendary producer of the record-breaking The Phantom of the Opera, Cats and Les Miserable. The result is a new musical so extraordinarily enchanting that, like the London critics, you'll have just one word for it: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

Creators
Lyrics by: Robert Sherman and Richard Sherman; with additional lyrics by Anthony Drewe
Music by: Robert Sherman and Richard Sherman; with additional music by George Stiles
Book by: Julian Fellowes
Richard Eyre (Direction)
Matthew Bourne (Choreography/Co-Direction)
Bob Crowley (Set and Costume Design)
Stephen Mear (Co-Choreography)
Howard Harrison (Lighting Design)
Andrew Bruce (Sound Design)
William David Brohn (Orchestrations)
David Caddick (Musical Supervision)
 
Starring
Scarlett Strallen (Mary Poppins)
Adam Fiorentino (Bert)
Daniel Jenkins (Mr Banks)
Rebecca Luker (Mrs Banks)
Katherine Doherty & Delaney Moro (Jane Banks)
Henry Hodges & Alexander Scheitinger (Michael Banks)
Jane Carr (Mrs. Brill)
Mark Price (Robertson Ay)
Cass Morgan (Bird Woman)
Ruth Gottschall (Miss Andrew)
Michael McCarty (Admiral Boom)