Mother on Stage Videos - Broadway

Julie Andrews talks about how her special effects as Mary Poppins were performed, and how she almost got injured doing one of them.

Dame Julie Andrews sat down with Savannah Guthrie on Tuesday morning's episode of Today to chat about writing her second memoir, 'Home Work,' which the actress wrote with help from her daughter. The book discusses Andrews' years in Hollywood and includes anecdotes from 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Sound of Music.'

Julia Elizabeth Wells was born on October 1, 1935, in England. Her mother, Barbara Ward (Morris), and stepfather, both vaudeville performers, discovered her four-octave singing voice and immediately started her singing career, performing in music halls throughout her childhood and teens. At age 20, her stage career began in a London Palladium production of Cinderella.

Robert Foxworth plays King Lear and Bruce Turk the Fool in Shakespeare's tragedy, directed by Festival Artistic Director Adrian Noble. The crowns are swapped in Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III, also helmed by Noble, where Miles Anderson will play King George III and Foxworth will play Dr. Willis. The Festival also includes Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew directed by Ron Daniels with Jonno Roberts and Emily Swallow as the two sparring lovers.