"Stay Awake" Cut From Mary Poppins?

[Effie Im TIRED]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 12:38pm

The lullaby that Mary sings to Jane and Michael, "Stay Awake", is my favorite song from the film. From what I've read, it's not included in the stage musical. Is this true? If so, that sucks, even though I do kind of understand.

I also heard that Disney wanted to cut it from the film, but Julie Andrews insisted on keeping it.

[Pippin]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 12:42pm

well, it's a lullaby, so it may put the kids in the audience to sleep as well. I love the song, but it is rather slow.

[algy]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 12:43pm

Y'know it's terrible - I've seen the show and I can't remember whether it was in or out! As it's not on the OLC I assume its out, like one of my favourite songs - Sister Suffragette.

[Effie Im TIRED]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 12:47pm

No Sister Sufragette? Oh dear! Our daughters' daughters will adore us and they'll sing in grateful chorus "Well done!"

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 12:47pm

I could never stay awake while Julie sang that song in the movie......that's probably why I haven't seen the second half of it....

[algy]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 1:17pm

No it's timeshifted so that the Suffragette story is no longer appropriate.

[jasobres]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 1:27pm

Well, they are keeping "Feed the Birds," right? That was Walt Disney's very favorite song and at every moment that he approached Richard Sherman, he would say, "Play it," and Sherman knew what he meant.

[algy]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 1:30pm

Feed the Birds is in the London show (I've got the OLC recording on atm as I'm trying to refresh my memory of the show)

[Gothampc]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 1:52pm

If they cut Feed the Birds, I'm boycotting the theater with picket signs. I love that song.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 2:03pm

And this is the perfect example of why I refuse to see this show.

Updated On: 10/18/06 at 02:03 PM

[Julian2]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 2:09pm

"Though we adore men individually, we agree that as a group,
they're rather stuuuuupid"

LOVE HER

And why refuse to see Mary Poppins, because its not a bland staight terrible carbon copy of the movie?

[cathywellerstein]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 2:27pm

when is it time shifted to?

[ThankstoPhantom]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 2:57pm

Like in the books,t he time period is the '30s, from what I understand.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 2:58pm

From The Playbill:

Mary Poppins takes place in and around the Banks' household somewhere in London at the turn of the last century.

Musical Numbers
Chim Chim Chereee (and reprises)
Cherry Tree Lane I/II (plus reprises)
Perfect Nanny
Practically Perfect (and reprise)
Jolly Holiday (and reprises)
Being Mrs. Banks (and reprises)
Spoonful of Sugar (and reprises)
A Man Has Dreams (and reprise)
Feed The Birds
Supercalifragilisticexpialadocious
Temper Temper
Brimstone and Treacle (I/II)
Let's Go Fly A Kite
Step in Time
Anything Can Happen
A Shooting Star

Note: These songs are for the most part in order, but to save time, the reprises are skipped but noted.

[kec]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 3:15pm

"Like in the books,t he time period is the '30s, from what I understand. "

The London production was set about the turn of the century, as the women were in long skirts. Hemlines had risen well above the ankle by the '30's.
Updated On: 10/18/06 at 03:15 PM

[ThankstoPhantom]

Posted: 10/18/06 at 5:29pm

That's what I thought, thank you...I think the only reason for them not having Suff... in the show is because Mrs. Banks is now a retired actress.