Mon 28 May 2007
Mary Poppins Review and Tickets!
Posted by bob under Event News & Info
Are you interested in seeing the play Mary Poppins at the New Amersterdam Theater in New York City? Below is a short review of the play that might give you more insight about the play Mary Poppins. We carry tickets for all upcoming Mary Poppins performances and all venues. Please contact us today to learn more about purchasing Mary Poppins tickets or any questions you might have concerning the play Mary Poppins.
A Review of the play Mary Poppins - Sourced from the New York Times
Though based on the classic fantasy book series by P. L. Travers and the 1964 Disney movie it inspired, this megamusical is ultimately less concerned with inexplicable magic than with practical psychology. True, the title character (played by the fierce-smiling Ashley Brown) still works the sort of sorcery that only high-end Broadway budgets allow: she flies; she slides up banisters; she makes cuddly toys turn as menacing as Chucky; and whenever Bob Crowley’s spectacular Edwardian set threatens to fall apart, she restores order to chaos with a wave of her gloved hands. But be warned. In this high-pedigree show — produced by the Disney company and Cameron Mackintosh and staged by the eminent British director Richard Eyre and the wunder-choreographer Matthew Bourne — every act of sorcery comes with a fortune-cookie life lesson attached. The operating philosophy, it would seem, is that a spoonful of spectacle helps the medicine go down. — Ben Brantley
