Laura Michelle Kelly - where is she now?

Does anyone know what Laura Michelle Kelly has been up to lately? I discovered the Stiles & Drewe Peter Pan recording today and think she made a great Wendy (with Sheila Hancock as the narrator/old Wendy).

I loved her in My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins and Lord of the Rings, and she should become a permanent fixture on the West End stage. Has she been in anything since the Old Vic revival of Speed-the-Plow?

She did the workshop of Ghost I think

Ye I read she was involved in GHOST somehow. Wish we could get more info on it tbh.

I'm doing some reading on the S&D Festival Hall Peter Pan concert, and noticed that LMK's two younger brothers, Nathanael and Jorim, played John and Michael Darling, respectively, to her Wendy.

What an incredible experience for all three - and what great chemistry their performance would've had.

Unfortunatly she did rather "p" off Cameron with Mary Poppins - he gave her a gem and she decided to try for a "pop" career instead of taking it to Broadway. She was a perfect Poppins and sadly, if she did go with Cameron she would be a very big West End star at the moment - with roles falling at her feet.

She is doing the workshops with Ghost and seems very keen to progress with this project as it aims for a West End opening Spring/Summer 2010

seriously though...she didn't wanna do Poppins on Broadway, so she gets blacklisted by every west end producer. seems rather childish and immature. its her perogative, she didn't wanna go to new york, i don't see why anyone would deny a very talented woman a role because she dared go against mr cameron "i think im god of theatre" makintosh!

Originally she WAS going to take MP to B'way, then some over opportunities came up in this country, and she pulled out on Cameron last minute, literally a day or so before the contracts were due to be signed!

In my experience she is a lovely lady, myself and Musical-Matt met her after LOTR one day, at the start of it's run, so we were 14/15? at the time... I cant remember when it opened now! And after her asking and us and discovering we were walking back to waterloo alone at night, she insisted we waited another 5 minutes while she signed autographs and she would walk us back to waterloo to make sure we were safe! Something she didnt have to do, and most wouldnt, she was very pleasant and more than happy to answer any questions we had, a very nice TALENTED woman in my experience, and I hope she does still have some wondeful oppertunities ahead of her!

I cant see her in 'Ghost'
She has as much sex appeal as Demi Moore has in her eyebrow.
She just doest come over as being sexy enuf for that part.

Without going into details, think outside the box on this one and think more down the line of personal reasons!

I agree, I don't feel she has sex appeal at all. I do love her voice though.

Kind of figured she'd turn up at some point in Wicked.

She'd look hot in green.

I believe the main thing that people are leaving out with regards to her not doing Poppins on Broadway was that she was due to go right from the London production directly to the Broadway one literally back to back. She had wanted to take some time off between the two and Cameron said no to that, that it was either you go do the show on Broadway right after you final contractual bow in London, or you don't get to go at all.

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According to jess20882 (who apparently works at Broadway's Mary Poppins), Laura Michelle Kelly will be reprising her role as the title character on Broadway following Scarlett Strallen's exit in October.
re: The next Mary Poppins on Broadway will be...anyone??

LMK will be flying the roof tops of London again as Mary Poppins on Broadway very soon!! Go Laura!!!!!