Mary Poppins (West End) London Reviews and Tickets

89%

(291 Ratings)

Positive

95%

Mixed

Negative

Members say

Delightful, Entertaining, Enchanting, Great singing, Great staging

About the Show

Olivier Award nominated revival of the classic musical staged by Disney and Sir Cameron Mackintosh.

The practically perfect nanny, Mary Poppins is called in to take care of the wealthy Banks family children.

A stage adaptation of the beloved P.L. Travers' book series of the same name. The Disney and Sir Cameron Mackintosh production with music by the Olivier Award-winning composers George Stiles and Anthony Drewe and script by Oscar winner, Julian Fellowes ('Downton Abbey').

Starring Zizi Strallen ('Follies') in the title role as Mary Poppins and Charlie Stemp ('Half a Sixpence', 'Hello Dolly!') as Bert. Nominated for the 2020 Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival. This production is recommended for ages 7+.

Show-Score Member Reviews (291)

100

Family friendly, Clever, Delightful, Enchanting, Entertaining

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.

100

Must see, Great staging, Great singing, Enchanting, Delightful

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

100

Entertaining, Enchanting

See it if Magical, wonderful and full of heart. Everyone needs a little Mary in their lives.

Don't see it if If you don't enjoy Disney or family shows stay clear

Good acting, Great dancing, Great score, Fantasy, Fun

See it if You want to just enjoy a few hours of your life

Don't see it if You are a grinchy and scroogy old curmudgion Read more

Great staging, Great singing, Enchanting, Delightful, Absorbing

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

Must see, Great staging, Entertaining, Absorbing

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

Great staging, Enchanting, Clever

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

Great staging, Great singing, Enchanting, Entertaining, Delightful

See it if you like to be taken back to your childhood and be mesmerised

Don't see it if you don't like disney

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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For a previous production

This feel-good extravaganza defies both logic and pessimism. Maybe that’s what we need right now.
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For a previous production

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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For a previous production

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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For a previous production

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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For a previous production

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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For a previous production

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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For a previous production

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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