The Jolie-Pitts Take in MARY POPPINS

Last night, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie brought four of their famous brood to a performance of MARY POPPINS on Broadway. The family is in town while Jolie finishes filming her upcoming film, Salt.

Brad Pitt has received two Academy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one. Pitt has been seen in numerous films, including Fight Club, Troy, Mr. & Mrs. Smith (also starring Angelina Jolie), and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Angelina Jolie has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award. Jolie was featured in such films as Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Girl, Interrupted, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Changeling, A Mighty Heart, and Kung Fu Panda.

MARY POPPINS currently stars Laura Michelle Kelly in the title role and Christian Borle as Bert. The Broadway cast also features Jeff Binder as Mr. Banks; Rebecca Luker as Mrs. Banks, Ann Arvia as Bird Woman, Mark Price as Robertson Ay, Ruth Gottschall as Miss Andrew and Michael McCarty as Admiral Boom. Juliette Allen Angelo, Kelsey Fowler and CASSADY LEONARD alternate as Jane Banks; Jeremiah Kissane, Matthew Schechter and ANDREW SHIPMAN alternate as Michael Banks.

Among Broadway's top-grossing shows, MARY POPPINS recently celebrated three years at the New Amsterdam Theatre on November 16. The musical has played over 1275 performances since its official opening in 2006. MARY POPPINS has been seen by two million theatergoers and grossed over $ 159 million to date, recouping its initial Broadway investment within 52 weeks of its premiere.

A co-production by Disney and Cameron Mackintosh, this stage production is based on P.L. Travers' cherished stories and the classic 1964 Walt Disney film. The show includes 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; Olivier Award-winning director Richard Eyre; and the Olivier Award-winning team of George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, who have composed new songs and additional music and lyrics.

MARY POPPINS ticket prices range from $31.50 - $121.50 and are available at www.DisneyOnBroadway.com, the New Amsterdam Theatre Box Office (214 West 42nd Street), Ticketmaster outlets, or by calling Ticketmaster's Disney on Broadway hotline at 866-870-2717 (running time is approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes).

For more information visit www.DisneyonBroadway.com.