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13 unusual facts about Mary Poppins


Billingsgate

Billingsgate is also referenced in the song "Sister Suffragette" in the 1964 version of Mary Poppins.

Boyd Dunlop Morehead

His sister Margaret Goff née Morehead was the mother of Helen Lyndon Goff, who achieved fame as P. L. Travers, the author of Mary Poppins.

Carrie Hope Fletcher

She landed a spot in the original cast of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the age of nine, and acted in the original cast of Mary Poppins in Bristol at the age of eleven.

Gavin Lee

Gavin Lee (born 15 October 1971) is an English actor who starred as Bert on Broadway in the musical Mary Poppins.

In 2004, he auditioned to be the Bert understudy in the London production of Mary Poppins, but managed to win the role outright.

Graham Shepard

Shepard's younger sister, Mary Shepard, also became an illustrator, and is most well known for her illustrations of P. L. Travers' Mary Poppins.

I Love to Laugh

The scene is based on the chapter "Laughing Gas" in the book Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers.

"I Love to Laugh", also called "We Love to Laugh", is a song from Walt Disney's film Mary Poppins.

Kristy Cates

Playing Ruth Wallis herself along with a barrage of other characters (including a medicated Mary Poppins, and a Follies Bergere wannabe), Cates garnered positive reviews from critics.

Palace Theatre, Manchester

Broadway musical The Wedding Singer had its UK premiere at the theatre in 2008 and in December 2008 to March 2009 the theatre hosted a season of the UK tour of Mary Poppins, one of only six theatres in the country to accommodate the tour, both events further cementing the theatre's reputation as the flagship venue of the North of England.

Saddle River Day School

Delaney Moro, a current student, who has been on Broadway in the original casts of Mary Poppins and 13.

Tatyana Voronina

Voronina was a lesser known singer that made her vocal appearance in the film Mary Poppins, Goodbye! singing for Natalya Andrejchenko.

The King Family Show

The series consisted of a remarkable crew including director and choreographer Marc Breaux with choreographer Dee Dee Wood (known for Mary Poppins, and The Sound of Music) and costumer Bob Mackie.


Armen Poghosyan

В 2000–2008 became a music leader at the "Pythagoras" studios for the duplication of Russian language full-length musical films and cartoons such as Mary Poppins, Sleeping Beauty, Corpse Bride, Hannah Montana, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Little Mermaid, Shrek.

Bank run

In addition to the plot of It's a Wonderful Life (1946), other fictional depictions of bank runs include those in American Madness (1932), Mary Poppins (1964) and Noble House (1988)

Live action

The term is also used within the animation world to refer to non-animated characters: in a live-action/animated film such as Space Jam, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, or Mary Poppins in which humans and cartoons co-exist, "live-action" characters are the "real" actors, such as Bob Hoskins and Julie Andrews, as opposed to the animated "actors", such as Roger Rabbit himself.

Melissa Suffield

Suffield helped raise money for Children in Need in 2007 by appearing in a special Beatles medley featuring cast from EastEnders and in Children In Need 2008 doing a West End when Melissa did Mary Poppins.

Norman Tokar

With a Sherman Brothers score and a cast including Fred MacMurray, Greer Garson, Tommy Steele, Lesley Ann Warren, and John Davidson, the studio hoped the film would do as well with critics and audiences as Mary Poppins had three years earlier.

Phyllida Crowley Smith

Theatre credits include Heathcliff, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats (playing the role of Victoria the White Cat), Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and The Phantom of the Opera.

Pittsburg Public School

One memorable play was done in the theme of Disney by the 5th grade students, in which the students dressed in mouse hats, as dalmatians and Cruella de Vil from 101 Dalmatians, as Mary Poppins, as Siamese cats from Lady and the Tramp, and many other Disney based characters.

Rosemary Ashe

She can be heard on the cast recordings of The Phantom of the Opera, The Boy Friend, Bitter Sweet, Kismet, The Student Prince, Song of Norway, Oliver, The Killer Soprano, The Witches of Eastwick, Serious Cabaret, Mary Poppins amongst others.

Shane Van Dyke

Shane Thomas Van Dyke is the son of Mary (Carey) Van Dyke and actor Barry Van Dyke (Airwolf, The Love Boat, Diagnosis: Murder) and grandson of the entertainer Dick Van Dyke (The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Night at the Museum).

Sodium-vapor lamp

Notable example of films using this technique include Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, Mary Poppins, and Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

Story canon

Common sense dictates that obscure and unsuccessful film titles be avoided, along with unintentionally goofy hybrids - like Mary Poppins meets Caligula.

Todeswunsch

"Drama der Geschlechtslosigkeit (part 2)" quotes from "Chim Chim Cher-ee", as featured in Mary Poppins, while "Shadowsphere" quotes the bass lines from Black Sabbath's "Under the Sun".

Turin Brakes

The band played the complete debut album in the correct order, apart from hidden track Three Days Old and a second set of more recent work, including new song Rescue Squad and their re-working of Mary Poppins-song Chim Chim Cher-ee, which they released as a digital single to raise money for homeless charities.