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.
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.