Broadway In Chicago and producers Thomas Schumacher of Disney Theatrical Productions and Cameron Mackintosh announced today that tickets will go on sale to the public for the long-awaited return production of MARY POPPINS on Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 10 a.m. Chicago's most eagerly awaited return production will begin performances at the Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph St.) on October 13, 2011 for a limited engagement of four weeks through November 6, 2011. The show's 18-week premiere engagement in 2009, which was heralded by the Chicago Sun-Times as, "a whimsical, continually ingenious musical", entertained over 300,000 theatre patrons during 141 performances.
With four productions currently running on three continents, MARY POPPINS is one of the biggest stage musical successes to emerge from London or New York in recent years. Worldwide to date, the six productions of the show have grossed over $521 million, welcomed 7 million guests and cumulatively run 12 years. The musical is the winner of 36 major theatre awards around the globe, including Tony®, Olivier and Evening Standard awards.The entire original creative team has reunited to bring this magical story of the world's most famous nanny to audiences around North America. The MARY POPPINS North American Tour began performances in Chicago on March 25, 2009 and has played to 1.5 million delighted theatergoers in 30 cities to date.MARY POPPINS, a co-production of Disney and Cameron Mackintosh, opened on Broadway on November 16, 2006. Based on P.L. Travers' cherished stories and the classic 1964 Walt Disney film, MARY POPPINS the stage play features the Academy Award®-winning music and lyrics of Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman. The stage production has been created, in collaboration with Cameron Mackintosh, by Academy Award®-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes, who has written the book, and the Olivier Award-winning team of George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, who have composed new songs and additional music and lyrics.Videos