PPAC Offers Special Gift With MARY POPPINS Tix

In anticipation of MARY POPPINS' premiere Providence engagement at the Providence Performing Arts Center February 8 - 19, 2012, patrons who purchase MARY POPPINS tickets in person at the PPAC Box Office this Saturday, October 22 from 10A to 2P will receive a FREE classic MARY POPPINS "Parrot head" umbrella! This offer is valid at the PPAC Box Office on October 22 ONLY with your purchase of tickets for this show, one umbrella per ticket order while supply lasts. The PPAC Box Office is located at 220 Weybosset Street in downtown Providence.

Tickets for MARY POPPINS are on sale NOW in person, online at www.ppacri.org and by phone at (401) 421-ARTS (2787). Tickets are $75 - $38; all ticket prices include a $3 per ticket restoration charge. Please note that ticket prices are subject to change without notice. Regular Box Office Hours are Monday through Friday, 10A to 5P; Saturday, 10A to 2P and through curtain time(s) on performance days.

MARY POPPINS is sponsored in Providence by Amica Insurance and is part of PPAC's 2011/2012 Broadway Series.

Amica's Kids' Night at MARY POPPINS is Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 7P. The media sponsors for Amica's Kids' Night at MARY POPPINS are ABC 6 and Coast 93.3 FM. With your purchase of a regularly-priced ticket for the Wednesday, February 15 evening performance, receive a FREE ticket of equal value for a child aged 18 or younger. Golden Circle seating excluded from this offer and while ticket supply lasts; may not be used in combination with any other discount offer and is not available online. Other restrictions may apply.

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 $605 million, welcomed 8.5 million guests and cumulatively run 12 years. The musical is the winner of 44 major theatre awards around the globe, including Tony®, Olivier, Evening Standard and Helpmann awards, Australia's highest performing arts honor.

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 on March 25, 2009 and has played to two million delighted theatergoers in 33 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.

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 Tony 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. The tour's creative team includes Tour Director Anthony Lyn, Associate Choreographer Geoffrey Garrett, and Music Director Daniel Bowling.