They wrote two hugely popular film musicals: Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Management on Friday announced it was to stage the touring production of Mary Poppins next March and April.
" He has also approved low-budget dramas including December's "Saving Mr. Banks, " about the making of Disney's "Mary Poppins.
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Previous Broadways shows to have taken part in the scheme include The Lion King, Mary Poppins and Elf: The Musical.
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Rewind to October, when the actor was in New York accompanying his two young daughters to a matinee of Mary Poppins.
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"Anyone who changes an economic model in America isn't going to be Mary Poppins, " says Rosen, oft described then as blustery and pugnacious.
Remember wondering what it would be like to fly a kite big enough to lift you off the ground, like Mary Poppins and her umbrella?
Their music often soared within movie scenes, accompanying Mary Poppins as she levitated and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as the car flew its passengers across the countryside.
L. Travers, the author of Mary Poppins, who declared early on that she had no real interest in seeing her popular children's book adapted to the screen.
The film is based on the making of the Mary Poppins movie and has already been tipped by the Hollywood Reporter to pick up an Oscar next year.
It might be more accurate to say that his is the Mary Poppins philosophy of social and cultural instruction: a spoonful of sugar helps the agenda go down.
At the meeting, Mackintosh pulled out a demo recording of "Practically Perfect, " a song his colleagues George Stiles and Anthony Drewe had written to introduce the character of Mary Poppins.
Two lofted beds flanked the large room, and high overhead, an umbrella hung upside down from an exposed ceiling pipe, as if Mary Poppins had once crash landed naked here.
The tableau of Britain at the opening ceremony included suffragettes, hundreds of dancing nurses, a strident Mary Poppins banishing multiple villains and even a shot of the first lesbian kiss aired on prime-time television.
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It is not known how long Broadway's lights will stay out as the densely-populated city awaits the arrival of the storm, with productions of Evita, Mary Poppins and Chicago affected, along with several off-Broadway plays.
With an uplifting, "people power" theme combining references to British history and pop culture, the rambunctious ceremony covered subjects as diverse as the Industrial Revolution, the National Health Service, popular children's book characters including Peter Pan and Mary Poppins, and pop stars past and present.
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