- メリー・ポピンズ: Mary Poppins comes to Tokyo
More than a dozen years after its debut in London, the stage production of Mary Poppins is finally making its way to Tokyo in an all-Japanese version this month. The show ran only around three years in London, a considerable disappointment given the potency of the title and the pedigree of mega-producers Disney and Cameron Mackintosh. It posted a stronger and profitable run of over six years on Broadway, but never became the iconic hit that many had envisioned.
My review of the London production from September 2005, when the show was still in its first year, says it all, so I’ll repeat that here.