Concrete Playground

Mary Poppins was one of my favourite childhood films. I was lucky enough to get my hands on my very own copy on VCR (recorded from television of course) so I could watch it whenever I wanted to: frequently.

Combine this with a love of stage musicals and I am one very happy lady because at QPAC this summer, we have the privilege of jumping feet first into a footpath chalk drawing of wonderful characters, originally created by P. L. Travers in the 1930s around a magical nanny who was blown by the East wind to No. 17 Cherry Tree Lane.

The musical version of the story has been created by Disney as something of a mix between what we all remember from the film, and the broader storyline traversed in the series of eight books. It will contain all of your favourites, including Chim Chim Cher-ee, A Spoonful of Sugar, Feed the Birds, Jolly Holiday and of course Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.