Monday, January 10, 2011
'Mary Poppins' starts slow, flies high
Post Gazette: "Being 'Practically Perfect,' as Mary Poppins explains her credentials, is all well and good, but nothing beats a practically perfect foil to get the juices flowing. When Ellen Harvey's monstrous Miss Andrew is hired as a successor to Miss Poppins, well, hell hath no fury like a magical supernanny come to the rescue of her children charges.
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It's interesting to see that they decided to put a song such as "Playing the Game" to close the first act. It's not clear whether it's refreshing or suicide for a show to NOT follow the conventional method of going into the intermission with a high-spirited and flashy number so that the audience is left wanting more. It seems to me that it sets them up for the possibility of having some audience members feeling uninterested and leave before the second act.
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