It's official: Broadway's favorite nanny will soon be flying off.
It's official: Broadway's favorite nanny will soon be flying off.
On
Tuesday, Disney Theatrical Productions and Cameron Mackintosh announced
that the hit musical will end its six-year-plus run on March 3. The
Disney stage adaptation, which first premiered in London, has been
attended by nearly 4 million New York theatergoers to date, and launched
a national tour that runs through June of this year. And licensing for
professional domestic productions will begin this year.
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But the New Amsterdam Theatre, Poppins' Broadway home, shouldn't be empty for long. A new production of another Disney property, Aladdin, is expected to arrive in the spring of 2014. An early version of Aladdin,
based on the 1992 film, was introduced in Seattle in the summer of
2011, but it's expected that the Broadway model will be substantially
revamped.
USA Today