DISNEY and Cameron Mackintosh are delighted to bring the multi award-winning musical Mary Poppins to Theatre Royal Plymouth from Wednesday, August 3 to Saturday, September 3.

The magical story of the world’s favourite nanny arriving on Cherry Tree Lane has been triumphantly and spectacularly brought to the stage with dazzling choreo-graphy, incredible effects and unforgettable songs. The stage version of Mary Poppins is brilliantly adapted from the wonderful stories by PL Travers and the beloved Walt Disney film.

The stage production of Mary Poppins is co-created by Cameron Mackintosh and has a book by Oscar-winning screenwriter and Downton Abbey creator, Julian Fellowes. It has a timeless score by Richard M Sherman and Robert B Sherman, including the songs Jolly Holiday, Step in Time, Supercalifragilistic-expialidocious and Feed the Birds with new songs and additional music and lyrics by the Olivier award-winning British team of George Stiles and Anthony Drewe. The producer for Disney Theatrical Productions is Thomas Schumacher.

Leading the cast for the UK tour are Zizi Strallen as Mary Poppins and Matt Lee as Bert. They will be joined by Neil Roberts as George Banks; Rebecca Lock as Winifred Banks; Penelope Woodman as Miss Andrew; Wendy Ferguson as Mrs Brill; Grainne Renihan as Bird Woman and Blair Anderson as Robertson Ay.

The internationally renowned and multi award-winning creative team assembled for Mary Poppins is led by stage and film director Richard Eyre. Co-direction and choreography is by Matthew Bourne, with co-choreography by Stephen Mear. The international tour of Mary Poppins is directed by James Powell with original choreography adapted by Geoffrey Garratt. musical supervision is by Stephen Brooker.

The stage production of Mary Poppins originally opened in 2004 and ran in the West End for three years and more than 1,250 performances. During this time it won the Olivier Award for best theatre choreography and best set design as well as the Evening Standard Award for best set design and the Variety Club Award for best musical. The Broadway production ran for more than six years where it won the Tony Award for best set design. The show has subsequently played to great success in Holland and Mexico. It has toured Australia, New Zealand, the US, the UK, has been seen by more than 11-million people.