Mary Poppins (West End) London Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (310)
See it if you like magical surprises. Captivating. Precision exciting dance. The cast raise the roof! It's not practically, it just ‘is’ perfect!
Don't see it if There aren’t any negatives in this show. Fair play to you if your preferences are different genres.
See it if One of my favourite shows. A real feel good Musical with some amazing set pieces- Step In Time…
Don't see it if Loved it all
See it if you like to be entertained
Don't see it if You hate disney
See it if You want to just enjoy a few hours of your life
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See it if Great acting esp the banks children and the stellar zizi Strallen as MP. There is nothing not to like about this show. Costumes, sets, Bourn
Don't see it if You don’t like mary Poppins or are too hung up on the film from which this differs somewhat Read more
See it if You are a big Disney fan, or if you like fantastical musicals that still have a relatable emotional core. Also, if you like 'big' musicals.
Don't see it if You prefer shows that are more small and intimate, or if you are not a big fan of the original movie/books.
See it if you want a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious evening of fun and laughter, replete with wonderful singing and dancing.
Don't see it if you don’t like very tame Disney-fied musicals, featuring all the Disney tropes you might expect it if you dislike children at the theatre. Read more
See it if You love the book (and the film)
Don't see it if You are expecting it to be a copy of the film
Critic Reviews (9)
Half-baked story aside, ‘Mary Poppins’ serves up everything you could want in a mega-budget family musical: memorable songs, dazzling visuals and a nostalgic ideal of a London that never existed. It’s supercalifragelistically good fun to visit for an hour or three.
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This feel-good extravaganza defies both logic and pessimism. Maybe that’s what we need right now.
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Zizi Strallen (who played the role on tour in 2015) might have stepped from a picture-book. She is, to cite one of the better songs of the blandish cache by Stiles and Drewe (augmenting the bankable Sherman Brothers classics), “practically perfect in every way”.
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As an alternative to panto, the production makes a perfectly acceptable family outing. As a musical, it doesn’t quite take flight.
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The iconic musical makes a welcome return to the West End...Although it often conjures the movie, the stage show undoubtedly has its own tart tone.
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But for nearly three hours, at least, you can park some of those worries at the door, and simply bask in the gentle familiarity and delightful uplift of this story and the spit-spot production it has been given...
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All contribute to a lavish if somewhat muddled and inescapably old-fashioned revival – sure to succeed commercially via the nostalgic power of Poppins, but, unlike its titular nanny, never quite taking flight.
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Travers scholars may still miss the darkness of the books, but for the rest of us the show is an unassailable treat and Eyre’s production has acquired the heart to go with its art.
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