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Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins

Shows · Mary Poppins

The Banks household in Edwardian England is in an uproar, with Mr.George Banks (Daniel Jenkins) desperate for order, his wife Winifred (Rebecca Luker) unsure of her role, and their young children Jane (Katherine Leigh Doherty) and Michael (Mathew Gumley) going through nannies in quick succession.

Opened
2006
Performances
2,619
Type
Musical
Era
Modern
Music: Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman (newLyrics: Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman (new songs and additional music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe*)Book: Julian Fellowes

Productions5 on Broadway

2004 Prince Edward Theatre Transfer. September 15, 2004 · predates this show
2005 Transfer Theatre not recorded. · predates this show
2006 New Amsterdam Theatre Original. November 16, 2006 · Richard Eyre 2,619 performances
2006 Transfer Theatre not recorded. November 16, 2006
2008 Transfer Theatre not recorded. June 4, 2008

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 2 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 1 entry

US Music Theatre International Cameron Mackintosh and Disney's Mary Poppins matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor

Read from the licensor's own pages and catalogues. Rights move, and an empty row means we have not confirmed a publisher, not that the show cannot be licensed.

In the literature43 passages

Bourne, Matthew Mary Poppins book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p387

Sondheim continued to work on the second, Climb High, based on Maxwell Anderson’s High Tor, for several years after he graduated and made substantial progress on the third show, based on the Mary Poppins stories. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p398

In “Theater Lyrics” Sondheim recalls that he sent Hammerstein a script for the fourth, original musical that included a ninety-nine-page first act and that Hammerstein circled this impressive number and wrote “Wow” (“Theater Lyrics,” 63). The third show mentioned here is Mary Poppins book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p700

His most notable successes include Cats (1981, London; 1982, New York), Song and Dance (1982, London; 1985, New York), Les Misérables (1985, London; 1987, New York), The Phantom of the Opera (1986, London; 1988, New York), Miss Saigon (1989, London; 1991, New York), and Mary Poppins (2005, London; 2006, New York). book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p244

Disney followed Beauty with The Lion King, Tarzan (2006), Mary Poppins (2006), The Little Mermaid (2008), Newsies (2012), and Aladdin (2014) book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p172

The Lion King (1997–2006 [the production transferred to the Minskoff Theatre in 2006, where it’s still running as of this writing]), Mary Poppins (2006–2013; 2,619 performances), and Aladdin (opened 2014, and still running at this time). book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p295

Passages naming this show, found by keyword across 178 books. Where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.

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