Mary Poppins Chicago

Tickets for the long-awaited production of Mary Poppins will go on sale to the public Friday, November 14, 2008 with a special public pre-sale at 8 a.m. at the Cadillac Palace Theatre box office.  Telephone ticketing lines, internet, and other box office outlets will have tickets available to the public beginning at 10 a.m. The eagerly anticipated North American National Tour will begin performances at Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre March 11, 2009.  Original Broadway stars Ashley Brown and Gavin Lee, along with the entire original creative team, will reunite to bring this magical story of the world’s most famous nanny to audiences around North America.

Ticket buyers are invited to special box office opening festivities on Friday, November 14, beginning at 8 a.m. at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, where 1,000 of the best seats available will be held for purchase at the box office only, and will not be available online or via phone.  Special gifts, including Mary Poppins t-shirts, will be given to the first 500 people in line. Ticket buyers will also be offered complimentary tea and scones from Argo Tea until 10 a.m.

Mary Poppins, a co-production by Disney and Cameron Mackintosh, opened on Broadway on November 16, 2006.  Based on P.L. Travers' cherished stories and the classic 1964 Walt Disney film, Mary Poppins features the Academy Award-winning music and lyrics of Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman.  The stage production has been created, in collaboration with Cameron Mackintosh, by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes, who has written the book, and the Olivier Award-winning team of George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, who have composed new songs and additional music and lyrics.

Consistently among the top-grossing shows on Broadway, Mary Poppins will celebrate its two-year anniversary at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Sunday, November 16, 2008.  Simultaneously, the show’s popularity grows around the globe. Following a successful three-year run (December 2004 - January 2008) at the Prince Edward Theatre on London's West End, a U.K. tour of Mary Poppins commenced earlier this summer and is currently performing to critical acclaim in Edinburgh, with additional dates booked for Manchester and Cardiff through April 2009.  Mary Poppins will later make its Australian debut at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney in October 2009.

To purchase tickets for Mary Poppins online go to ticketmaster.com.