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‘Mary Poppins’: The musical that almost wasn’t

November 12th, 2009, 4:18 pm · Post a Comment · posted by PAUL HODGINS, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

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“It was a nasty shock for them to find that one of their crown jewels didn’t in fact wholly belong to them. I think it never occurred to them that they didn’t have the stage rights. They wanted the Disney thing – they wanted control.”

- Cameron Mackintosh on his protracted negotiations with Disney over the rights to “Mary Poppins”

The Disney/Cameron Mackintosh collaborative production of “Mary Poppins,” years in the making, opens Sunday at the Ahmanson Theatre.

Register preview: Cameron Mackintosh and Thomas Schumacher on “Mary Poppins.”

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