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
Productions2 on Broadway
| 2004 | Prince Edward Theatre Transfer. September 15, 2004 · predates this show | |
| 2006 | New Amsterdam Theatre Original. November 16, 2006 · Richard Eyre | 2,619 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 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.
Recordings 27 albums 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 |
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43 passages naming Mary Poppins, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
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
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