Mary Poppins (musical)
Mary Poppins is a musical with music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman (the Sherman Brothers) and additional music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, and a script by Julian Fellowes. The musical is based on the similarly titled Mary Poppins children's books by P. L. Travers and the 1964 Disney film, and is a fusion of various elements from the two, including songs from the film.
Busker Alley
Brothers Robert and Richard Sherman had written the scores to several Disney movies such as "Mary Poppins" and "The Jungle Book". In the mid 1960s, Disney staff scriptwriter, AJ Carothers rediscovered the motion picture "St. Martin's Lane" and approached the Sherman brothers with the idea of purchasing the rights to the film and making a stage musical out it. The Shermans and AJ Carothers did just that in 1969, writing the musical "Piccadilly". But nothing more became of it until 1982 when interest was rekindled, and the project was rewritten and renamed, "Blow Us a Kiss". Still, nothing happened with the property until later in the same decade when interest was again sparked, and Tommy Tune became attached to the show.