Mary Poppins (musical)

Mary Poppins
The Original London Poster.
Music	Robert B. Sherman Richard M. Sherman George Stiles Orchestrations by William David Brohn
Lyrics	Robert B. Sherman Richard M. Sherman Anthony Drewe
Book	Julian Fellowes
Basis	Mary Poppins book series by P.L. Travers and 1964 Walt Disney film
Productions	2004 Bristol (tryout) 2004 London 2006 Broadway 2008 UK Tour 2008 Gothenburg* 2009 North America Tour 2009 Helsinki* 2009 Budapest* 2010 Copenhagen* 2010 The Hague 2010 Melbourne 2010 Brno* 2011 Tartu* 2012 Mexico City 2013 Reykjavík* 2014 Vienna 2015 Oslo* 2015 UK Tour 2016 Montreal* 2016 Stuttgart 2016 Brno* 2016 Puerto Rico 2017 South Korea 2017 Israel* * Non-replica productions

Mary Poppins is a musical with music and lyrics by the Sherman Brothers, with additional music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, and a script by Julian Fellowes. The musical is based on the similarly titled Mary Poppins children's books by P. L. Travers and the 1964 Disney film, and is a fusion of various elements from the two.

Produced by Walt Disney Theatrical and directed by Richard Eyre with co-direction from Matthew Bourne who also acted as co-choreographer with Stephen Mear, the original West End production opened in December 2004, after a fall 2003 workshop at the Old Vic, and won two Olivier Awards, one for Best Actress in a Musical and the other for Best Theatre Choreography. A Broadway production with a near-identical creative team opened on November 16, 2006, with only minor changes from the West End version. It received seven Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical, and winning for Best Scenic Design.

The original Broadway production closed on March 3, 2013 after 2,619 performances. Since then the amateur rights have become available for the musical through Musical Theatre International, and has been a popular choice for schools and community theatres to produce due to the popularity of the film and books.

In 1993, theatrical producer Cameron Mackintosh met Pamela Travers and acquired the rights to develop a stage play adaptation of her Mary Poppins books. She only agreed to a stage production as long as the creators were all English, and no one who had worked on the film. She died in 1996. In 2001, Mackintosh and the head of Disney Theatrical Thomas Schumacher opened talks on a possible collaboration, so that the stage play would be able to use the songs from the Disney film. With both sides committed, a preliminary outline of the show was written in 2002.