2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the movie’s release, and Disney released Blu-ray, which is definitely a benefit of old movies. At the same time, this year is also the 10th anniversary of the West Side Musical "Happy Man World", which is worth commemorating.
The movie "Big Dreamer" definitely has to be packaged and watched with this movie to have an effect. Although the "Big Dreamer" is not completely shaped in reality, the move at the time is absolutely correct.
Let’s list some information that I can remember. There may be no rules:
1. Disney personally watched Julie Andrews’s Broadway opera "Camelot" and appointed her to play the heroine. Julie was still hesitating at the time, because She even wanted to star in "The Fair Lady" (later the role was given to Audrey Hepburn, but Julie won an Oscar with "Happy in the World")
and the film still waited a year for Julie to start shooting, because she was pregnant before. In later set photos, she can be seen holding her baby daughter. Julie's husband at the time also got a job in the costume and props team.
2. The male protagonist Dick Van Dyke is an American, which is one of the reasons why the original author does not like him. The original author wants Laurence Olivier to play Bert. But Dick's accent pretended to deceive some people, the East London accent was terrifyingly heavy.
3. The composer was the Sherman brothers. They also won the Oscar for the chimney song on the roof. Their testimonial is very simple-supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
4. Disney’s favorite song is the feed the bird song in the film, This song is also a song that moved the original author (not the Let's go fly a kite described later in the movie)
5. The original author was obviously very dissatisfied with the film, so that she was reluctant to find her for the production of the musical, and the final unified authorization condition was: no Americans can participate in the production! (For the people who made the movie) This also prevented the Sherman brothers from participating in the re-arrangement of the musical.
6. The musical version was launched in London's West End in 2004. Laura Michelle Kelly won the Oliver Award for her role as Mary Poppins. In 2006, Broadway was introduced to New York, and Gavin Creel, an actor who played Bert in the West End, also moved to Broadway.
The plot of the musical version is more biased towards the original, but it retains the classic songs. The harmony after re-arrangement is beautiful, but the original flavor is not lost.
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