{"id":279204,"date":"2025-07-21T05:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T05:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/279204\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T05:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T05:52:13","slug":"mary-poppins-actor-patti-boulaye-pays-tribute-to-birminghams-role-in-her-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/279204\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Poppins actor Patti Boulaye pays tribute to Birmingham&#8217;s role in her career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The touring production of Mary Poppins will spend five weeks at the Birmingham Hippodrome, and is expected to be the theatre&#8217;s biggest revenue generator of the year, other than the annual Christmas pantomime. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australian singers Stefanie Jones and Jack Chambers play the lead roles of Mary and Bert, having previously performed the show in their homeland. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Jones said: &#8220;The world over, Mary Poppins garners the same response from people, it&#8217;s such a beloved story. The nostalgia is taken care of, and then I get to add my own flavour, which the creatives have been really encouraging of us doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The show takes the songs of the original Disney film and incorporates new music. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chambers added: &#8220;We want people to come and hear the songs they love, but also hear some new stuff that keeps it fresh and interesting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mary Poppins is at the Birmingham Hippodrome until 23 August. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The touring production of Mary Poppins will spend five weeks at the Birmingham Hippodrome, and is expected to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-279204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114889670186817900","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}