Photo Coverage: Laura Michelle Kelly and Christian Borle Join Broadway's MARY POPPINS!

Broadway's perfectly magical musical MARY POPPINS welcomed the West End's original 'Mary', Olivier Award winner Laura Michelle Kelly, and Tony® Award nominee Christian Borle (Broadway's Legally Blonde) last night, Monday, October 12 at 7pm. Produced by Thomas Schumacher of Disney Theatrical Productions and Cameron Mackintosh, MARY POPPINS will celebrate its three-year anniversary at the New Amsterdam Theatre (214 West 42nd Street) on Monday, November 16.

BroadwayWorld.com's cameras were there for the "Jolly Holiday" for the "Poppins" celebration!

Kelly and Borle are joined by new cast members Jeff Binder ('Zazu' in The Lion King) as Mr. Banks, Jenny Galloway (reprising her role from the West End production) as Mrs. Brill andMichael McCarty as Admiral Boom, returning to the role he created on Broadway. Rebecca Luker continues to star as Mrs. Banks alongside Ann Arvia as Bird Woman, Mark Price as Robertson Ay and Ruth Gottschall as Miss Andrew. Juliette Allen Angelo, Alexandra Berro and CASSADY LEONARD alternate as Jane Banks; JEREMIAH KISSANE, Matthew Schechter and ANDREW SHIPMAN alternate as Michael Banks.

Consistently among the top-grossing shows on Broadway, MARY POPPINS has played over 1000 performances - a milestone reached by only a rare few number of shows in Broadway history. The production has been seen by more than 1.9 million theatergoers and grossed over $ 154 million to date.

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 and includes the film's Academy Award®-winning music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman. The stage production was created, in collaboration with Cameron Mackintosh, by Academy Award®-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes, who wrote the book; Olivier Award-winning director Richard Eyre; and the Olivier Award-winning team of George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, who composed new songs and additional music and lyrics.

MARY POPPINS ticket prices range from $31.50 - $121.50, and are available online atwww.DisneyOnBroadway.com, in-person at the New Amsterdam Theatre Box Office (214 West 42nd Street) and all Ticketmaster outlets, or by calling Ticketmaster's Disney on Broadway hotline at 866-870-2717 (NOTE: Holiday pricing ranges from $31.50 - $131.50 at select performances).

Running time is approximately 2 hours, 40 minutes.

Photos by Monica Simoes

Laura Michelle Kelly

Laura Michelle Kelly and Christian Borle

Christian Borle

Laura Michelle Kelly and Christian Borle

Juliette Allen Angelo, Jeff Binder, Laura Michelle Kelly, Christian Borle and Rebecca Luker

Laura Michelle Kelly, Christian Borle and Rebecca Luker

Laura Michelle Kelly and Christian Borle

Jeff Binder, Laura Michelle Kelly, Christian Borle and Rebecca Luker

Laura Michelle Kelly and Christian Borle

Jeff Binder, Laura Michelle Kelly, Christian Borle and Rebecca Luker

Laura Michelle Kelly and Christian Borle

Laura Michelle Kelly and Christian Borle

Laura Michelle Kelly, Sir Cameron Mackintosh's proud mother, Diana and Christian Borle

Jeff Binder and Rebecca Luker

Dennis Moench, Ruth Gottschall, Rebecca Luker and Aaron J. Albano

Alexandra Berro, Jeremiah Kissane and Juliette Allen Angelo

Laura Bell Bundy and Christian Borle

Laura Bell Bundy and Christian Borle

Jessica Sheridan and Michael McCarty

Laura Michelle Kelly and Christian Borle