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Governor Pete Wilson of California and I have something in common. At one time in our lives, we both liked cheap labor. I did 15 years ago when I was looking for a baby-sitter. Mary Poppins was too expensive, so I settled for Elba. All I had to do...
Many White House officials view the arrival of Harold Ickes much the way Jane and Michael Banks came to regard the coming of their strict new governess, Mary Poppins. In an Administration that likes to think big and play messy, Ickes is devoted to detail and driven to discipline. While...
Maybe it's just just me; maybe lots of heterosexuals born since World War II really do love musicals. But I have never knowingly hummed a show tune. I take it only on faith that Rodgers and Hammerstein were geniuses. Ethel Merman's voice was powerful, sure, and powerfully annoying...
As the children of the '50s became the moviegoing teenagers of the '60s and '70s, however, Hollywood's output of musicals shrank radically, and the genre had its last hurrah as an effectively two-woman industry: there were Julie Andrews musicals (Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Thoroughly Modern Millie...
But Drugge and Stone are not the heart of the stage crew. Co-director Emily Gardiner, playing three different completely different roles, quickly finds her way to the forefront of every scene. Gardiner apparently has no difficulty switching between completely different characters. Her change from a twisted Mary Poppins to...