Rosie: "Mary Poppins is best musical in past 10 years"

I can tell you right now. It's amazing. I saw it in London. I loved it. Reviews have been mixed but they're better than the ones Tarzan got. Opinion has been divided too. I have no plans to see it again on Broadway but I recommend you see it.

But my warning: Do not go expecting the movie. It is nothing like the movie. It is more faithful to the books. However, many of the songs from the movie as well as several new ones are in the show.

So see it. But be prepared to see something totally different from (and in my opinion, so much better than) the movie.

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best musical on broadway since THE LION KING
I am sorry I have to laugh at thst, but I haven't seen it yet so I shouldn't judge

Yes, Rosie does have a habit of speaking only in superlatives. Every guest on her show used to be "the funniest woman alive" or "the cutest patootie in Hollywood" or etc.

mary poppins is FANTASTIC, enough said

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Updated On: 11/28/06 at 04:49 PM

Rosie said the same thing about Wicked.

cubanpab, I'm not StephenSondheimWHOO, but I saw the lion King and I thought it was just okay. the opening scene is fantastic and breathtaking, but after that, everything lacked in comparison. I just didn't hold up to that. I was bored and in some place confused.

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Updated On: 11/28/06 at 05:13 PM

Is Rosie on Disney's payroll now?

TTT, of course she is. ABC is Disney's station.

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A good friend of mine saw it last week. I was very envious and thought he was going to LOVE it. I spoke with him last night, and, surprisingly, he was very disappointed. He's a big fan of the movie, so maybe that was the reason. But he knew going in that the show was based more on the book than the movie. Still, he said, sets and effects aside, it was a big "who cares?" and "so what?" He said the character of Mary was surprisingly unpleasant and surly and looked like Joan Crawford. He thought a more apt title would have been "Nanny Dearest". He was also completely uninterested in the marital discord sub-plot and found the show overly long and sluggishly paced. Oh well... to each his own. I'd still like to see it eventually. But I’m much less excited about it than I was before it opened to generally luke-warm reviews. It's not a "star vehicle", so I really don't care who's in it when I see it. I'm sure the replacements will be adequate, especially in light of the thinly drawn characterizations. Sounds like it's the kind of show that you leave humming the sets.

As for Rosie, she LOVES just about everything Broadway. Especially, when they're giving away free tickets to her studio audience. And I believe she said it was the best "family" musical since The Lion King.

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Updated On: 11/28/06 at 05:48 PM

I really loved it as well. I didn't expect to as I considered nothing could have been as good as the film, but I was totally taken by it.
I saw the performance where the set failed between acts one and two and came back to see the show again (as their guest of course), and I enjoyed it even more the second time.

Piazza aside, this really is one of the best shows I've seen in years.

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Gotta run!

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