The jack-of-all trades, Bert, introduces us to England in 1910 and the troubled Banks family. Young Jane and Michael have sent many a nanny packing before Mary Poppins arrives on their doorstep. Using a combination of magic and common sense, she must teach the family how to value each other again. Mary Poppins takes the children on many magical and memorable adventures, but Jane and Michael aren't the only ones she has a profound effect upon. Even grown-ups can learn a lesson or two from the nanny who advises that "Anything can happen if you let it."

MUSIC AND LYRICS BY RICHARD M. SHERMAN AND ROBERT B. SHERMAN
BOOK BY JULIAN FELLOWES
NEW SONGS AND ADDITIONAL MUSIC AND LYRICS BY GEORGE STILES AND ANTHONY DREWE
DIRECTED BY STACEY SPEARS
MUSIC DIRECTION BY AMY KEIPERT

I'll be playing keyboards in my (mostly) annual return home to Palatine, IL, with my brother Adam on percussion.