NANNY MCPHEE to Tame Unruly Children in the West End?

Mix together a bit of good, old-fashioned discipline, a few warts and some magic, and you've got the West End's latest star -- and newest governess after Mary Poppins -- Nanny McPhee!

The Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye revealed this evening that the stories of Nanny McPhee, based on the NURSE MATILDA books by Christianna Brand, are being adapted for the London stage.

Film star Emma Thompson (who will soon be seen as 'Mrs. Potts' in Disney's new BEAUTY AND THE BEAST) reportedly divulged the big news. No word on whether she will tread the boards in this new version of the tale, but our fingers are crossed she'll magically appear and transform our lives!

Thompson, who also wrote the script for the NANNY MCPHEE film and is penning the stage version, starred opposite Colin Firth, Angela Lansbury and Thomas Sangster in the title role of Kirk Jones's 2005 movie adaptation. A sequel was released in 2010.

The story follows widowed undertaker Cedric Brown and his seven, troublemaking children, who are taken under the wing of Nanny McPhee, an ugly "government nanny" who changes their lives -- and magically, in the process, her appearance -- for the better.

"When you need me, but do not want me, then I must stay. When you want me, but no longer need me, then I have to go," Nanny McPhee tells the children on her first night.

Nanny McPhee, the West End needs you!