Playhouse Square's MARY POPPINS Tickets Go On Sale 4/20

PlayhouseSquare and producers Thomas Schumacher of Disney Theatrical Productions and Cameron Mackintosh announced today that tickets for the long-awaited production of Mary Poppins will go on sale to the public on Monday, April 20 at 11:00am. Cleveland's most eagerly awaited stage production will begin performances at the State Theatre on Friday, July 17 for a limited engagement of 4 weeks through Sunday, August 9. The opening night is Sunday, July 19 at 7:30pm. Original Broadway stars Ashley Brown and Gavin Lee, along with the entire original creative team, will reunite to bring this magical story of the world's most famous nanny to audiences around North America.

Ticket buyers are invited to special box office opening festivities on Monday, April 20 in the State Theatre lobby. The first 100 people in line at the Ticket Office will receive a Mary Poppins parrot-head umbrella and one lucky umbrella will include a certificate for a special Mary Poppins prize basket including show merchandise & an overnight stay for a family of four at the newly renovated Wyndham Cleveland Hotel at PlayhouseSquare.

Mary Poppins, a co-production by 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 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.

Olivier Award-winning director Richard Eyre leads the award-winning creative team, with co-direction and choreography by Tony® and Olivier Award winner Matthew Bourne. Mary Poppins features set and costume design by TonyÒ Award winner Bob Crowley, co-choreography by Olivier Award winner Stephen Mear, lighting design by Howard Harrison, orchestrations by William David Brohn, and music supervision by David Caddick.

Consistently among the top-grossing shows on Broadway, Mary Poppins will celebrate its two-year anniversary at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Sunday, November 16, 2008. Simultaneously, the show's popularity grows around the globe. Following a successful three-year run (December 2004 - January 2008) at the Prince Edward Theatre on London's West End, a U.K. tour of Mary Poppins commenced earlier this summer and is currently performing to critical acclaim in Edinburgh, with additional dates booked for Manchester and Cardiff through April 2009. Mary Poppins will later make its Australian debut at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney in October 2009.

In Cleveland, Mary Poppins will play Tuesday through Saturday evenings at 7:30pm and Sunday evenings at 6:30pm. Saturday matinees at 1:30pm & Sunday matinees at 1:00pm. Ticket prices range from $10.00 to $135.00 for VIP seating which includes special services at the theatre. Beginning Monday, April 20, tickets will be available at the PlayhouseSquare Box Office and online at playhousesquare.org. To charge tickets, call PlayhouseSquare at (216) 241.6000. Orders for groups of twenty (20) or more may be placed by calling (216) 664-6050.

The Cleveland engagement of Mary Poppins is presented by arrangement with PlayhouseSquare and is a subscription offering of the KeyBank Broadway Series. Visit key.com for more details.