Mary Poppins Recoups, Launches Tour in Chicago in 2009

Performances set to begin March 25, 2009 at the Cadillac Palace Theatre. More dates/cities to be announced.

More info (though not much else) at either of the below links

https://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=23497

https://www.playbill.com/news/article/113285.html

I'm so excited. I hope it'll come to SF :)

Wow...2009 is far away.

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lets hope they dont scale it down too much, that house set is amazing.

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Why in 2009? That's too far away! Xanadu is going to La Jolla next fall and Spring Awakening starts it's tour then. Weird how Blonde and Curtains haven't announced tours. Hopefully they all make it to L.A.!

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If BLONDE announces a tour now, it will lose all chances of recouping the Broadway production. Those producers know that whether they announce a tour now or if they wait until 2012, there will always be an audience out in Nowheresville for the show.

CURTAINS just signed on DHP through August 2008. He is *the* selling point for that show. Let THEM recoup and hold onto DHP as long as they can before they even think about a tour. They don't exactly have a "wave" that they need to ride by a certain point in time. They can put this unknown, unheard of, no-name show on the road at any time, and it will do so-so. Their best bet is to get people in that Broadway house to see that production with its well-known Tony winning recognizable TV star right now.

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The LEGALLY BLONDE Tour also has booked dates at the Ruth Eckerd Hall in Tampa, Florida.

*Spoiler*

Will it be feasible to have Mary Poppins fly out over the audience at the end in a touring production?

Wow, such a huge show recouped in almost exactly a year! That's really great. I'm sure it will also do Boston, LA, Dallas, etc...

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Congrats to Mary Poppins - saw it in January of 07 and LOVED IT. It's an excellent show that I highly recommend.

Updated On: 12/5/07 at 04:15 PM

Yay, Chicago! Although, I might not still live here in 2009. Figures.

"The Chi engagement is seen as a long run sit-down before launching on tour. It could run at the Palace 9 months or more, meaning the rest of the country won't be seeing it until sometime in 2010."

Now I am CONVINCED that Macintosh is the reason the tour will launch in Chicago. Schumacher, for some inexplicable reason, doesn't see Chicago as a big theatre town. He mocked the producers of Wicked for wanting a sit-down, and that was AFTER it celebrated its first anniversary!

"One thing the New York Times says is "In addition, all the New York principals, including Ashley Brown in the title role and Gavin Lee as Bert the chimney sweep, have signed on for another 12 months, something of a rarity these days. 'They love doing it,' Schumacher said."

YES!!!! Now when I eventually get back to work there sometime next year i'll be able to re-familiarize and revel in the delicious talent that is Gavin Lee :)

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