Who else is excited about MARY POPPINS?

I'm pumped. I have my tickets and am flying up for the day to see it (I got a good airfare or this wouldn't be happening.) The orchestrations on the London Cast Album are the best I've ever heard period.

I didn't like it at all, in London, so I'm curious, why are you excited about it? If I were any less excited for it, I'd be dead.

What special effects did they have, besides the tap dancing on the proscenium (if that even counts)?

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I'm excited cause I love Ashley Brown, I was in a show with her when i was 12!

I'm really not at all...I personally felt they destroyed one of the most amazing themes to the film with the transition to the stage. Eliminating Mrs. Bank's song "Sister Suffrogette" took away the ne need for "Let's go Fly a Kite" and all the kite symbology in the end. So, instead of ending with that, they had to create something new, which I felt weakened it. The loss of "I Love to Laugh," as well as the introduction of Ms. Andrew (Who in the film was a nice older woman), really displeased me. Casting wise, the loss of Linzi Hateley and Laura Michelle Kelly did not please me at all...I found them to be, on the cast recording, the only ones worth listening too. But, I could be totally wrong, this is entirely conjecture at this stage of the game.

I saw it in London and loved it. I'm really excited to see Gavin Lee again and see how the Broadway cast is.

Wait a minute...Flahooley wasn't impressed with the London version of the show but is excited about the upcoming Broadway version. Is there any logic to this mode of thinking?

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I'm excited for it! I think it's one Disney production that I'd really enjoy. I loved the movie, so hopefully it'll be adapted well onstage.

~Roz

Neddyfrank-
In the film the family is, in effect "broken." The parents are so uninvolved with their children they don't notice when they run off. When Mr. Banks fixes the kite at the end of the film, bringing the four pieces together, it's the restoration of the family as a whole, the addition of Mrs. Banks sash for a tale (A sign of commitment) all is right. If you take out the song, "Sister Suffrogette" and eliminate the minor sub-plot with the mother, then there is no reason for "Let's Go Fly A Kite," to be as powerful a number. Instead it gets weakend and placed at the top of Act 2. Maybe that's just me though.