West End 'Mary Poppins' Launches Tour Jan 2008

After completing its two-year West End run on January 12, 2008 Disney's Mary Poppins will launch on a national tour criss-crossing the United Kingdom. The tour begins on June 4, 2008 for a month-long engagement at the Theatre Royal Plymouth.

Disney and Cameron Mackintosh's Mary Poppins UK Tour 2008/2009
www.marypoppinsthemusical.com

PLYMOUTH THEATRE ROYAL
4 June – 5 July 2008
Royal Parade, Plymouth, PL1 2TR
Box Office – 01752 267 222
TICKETS ON SALE 15 OCTOBER 2007
www.theatreroyal.com

BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME
10 July – 27 September 2008
Hurst Street, Birmingham, B5 4TB
Box Office – 0870 730 1234
TICKETS ON SALE 15 OCTOBER 2007
www.birminghamhippodrome.com

EDINBURGH PLAYHOUSE
1 October – 6 December 2008
18-22 Greenside Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3AA
Box Office – 0870 606 3424
TICKETS ON SALE 15 OCTOBER 2007
www.edinburghplayhouse.org.uk

MANCHESTER PALACE THEATRE
10 December 2008 – 7 March 2009
Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 6FT
Box Office – 0870 401 3000
TICKETS ON SALE – 2008 TBC
www.palaceandoperahouse.org.uk

WALES MILLENNIUM CENTRE CARDIFF
11 March – 18 April 2009
Bute Place, Cardiff, CF10 5AL
Box Office – 08700 40 2000
TICKETS ON SALE 2008 TBC
www.wmc.org.uk

Mary Poppins is a co-production by Disney and Cameron Mackintosh and opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on November 16, 2006.  Based on P.L. Travers's cherished stories and the classic 1964 Walt Disney film, the show 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.

Mary Poppins is co-directed by Richard Eyre and Matthew Bourne, choreographed by Bourne and Stephen Mear, and designed by Bob Crowley. In London, the show earned the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreography, the Variety Club Award for Best Musical, the Evening Standard Award for Best Set Design and the Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Award for Best Designer. The musical premiered on Broadway in November 2006.