Mary Poppins Now
Today's New York Times has a story about Disney launching a new assault on Broadway with "Mary Poppins" as their main weapon. Expectations are that the show could do as well as "The Lion King," - which has taken in $300 million since it opened in 1997.

We saw "Mary Poppins" on video a couple weeks ago and I was surprised I remembered so little about the movie other than a couple songs. Then I realized one of the moral lessons it was teaching was that women should stay in the home and take care of the kids. The scatter-brained mother in "Mary Poppins" is gone all the time because she's a suffragette. The not-so-subtle message is that she's out wasting her time trying to get women the right to vote when she should instead be taking care of her unruly children. Can't imagine that will fly on Broadway, where middle-age women do most of the ticket buying.
- posted by Amy @ 11/29/2003 11:32:00 AM