Mary Poppins (song)
"Mary Poppins" is a song from the 2015 stage musical "Love Birds" with music and lyrics by Robert J. Sherman. It is sung by "The Original Quack Pack", a penguin barbershop quartet who resemble the penguins from the 1964 Walt Disney motion picture, "Mary Poppins". In dialogue leading up to the song, the penguins explain that while they did know the same nanny, (Mary Poppins) they are not the same penguins as in the movie. The song expresses their longing for the magical nanny of literary fame.
Stephen Schwartz (composer)
In 1971, he wrote music and lyrics for "Godspell", for which he won several awards, including two Grammys. For this musical's Toronto production in 1972, he asked Paul Shaffer to be the musical director, thus starting Shaffer's career. "Godspell" was followed by the English-language texts, in collaboration with Leonard Bernstein, for Bernstein's "Mass", which opened the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. In 1972, the long-running "Pippin" premiered on Broadway. Schwartz had begun writing songs for "Pippin" while in college, although none of the songs from the college version ended up in the Broadway production. Both "Pippin" and "Godspell" continue to be frequently produced.