Poppins ultimately teaches the family the lifelong lessons of gratitude, acceptance and joy.
With over 75 students in the cast, crew and orchestra pit, WHS theatre has spent the last three months preparing to tell the tale of the troubled Banks family at 17 Cherry Tree Lane who is visited by the enigmatic Mary Poppins, according to an announcement about the show. Travers’s life was far more compelling than what Disney would have its audience believe.Wilton High School senior Ella DeLuca, who plays Mary Poppins, and senior Jake Enman, who plays Bert, have practiced flying under the guidance of Michelle Kadikian, flying director from ZFX. In this case, it was Travers's own life.Ĭomplete with dramatic love stories, unexpected pursuits, and alternative choices, P.L. But, as it had done with Mary Poppins, Disney again sanitized an unconventional story. Travers to sell him the rights to her stories. The movie claims to depict the true story of how Walt Disney convinced P.L. Banks continues that tradition by creating a version of P.L. Travers Mary Poppins books barely resemble the Disney version. In 1964, Disney released a musical film adaptation of the books, bringing Mary Poppins to a wider audience - and, according to Travers, sanitizing her beloved character beyond recognition. In between the debut Mary Poppins novel and the final one in 1988, Travers lived life according to her own terms. Over the next five decades, she would publish 7 more books that featured the no-nonsense nanny. She settled in England in the 1920s and published Mary Poppins in 1934. Travers biography was as rosy as the Disney adaptation of her books - but they couldn't be more wrong.īorn as Helen Goff in Australia in 1899, the woman who would write Mary Poppins pursued the arts around the world. Many people make the mistake of assuming that P.L. Travers is best known for creating the magical nanny who has captured the imagination of generations of children. The writer of Mary Poppins lived an R-rated life.
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