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Mackintosh met one qualification right off the bat. “She wanted to find out how much I wanted to do it and how well I really knew the books.” “She interviewed me,” is how he describes the meeting. Mackintosh pursued Travers for years and finally met her in 1994, when she was 93. He discovered that “for some inexplicable reason, Disney never tied up the stage rights to the original books by Pamela Lyndon Travers and since she wasn’t fond of the film version, she held on to them tightly.” She wrote into her will that no one connected with the movie was to have anything to do with the stage version and that any authors who did adapt it for the stage would have to be British.Įver since he saw the 1964 movie, he knew he wanted to put it on the stage, he told the Star in a 2006 interview, just before his musical version opened on Broadway. Travers got her revenge when she realized Disney had not secured the stage rights to her story. When she started to give Disney her notes on what still needed fixing in the movie, he turned to her and said, “Pamela, that ship has sailed,” and they never spoke again. The entente between Disney and Travers blew apart at the film’s 1964 premiere, which Travers had to bully her way into. Banks deals with how Walt Disney convinced Travers to let him make a movie out of her beloved series of books about the magical nanny with the capacity to change people’s lives.īut though Mary Poppins got made, it wasn’t exactly a happily ever after. Travers never got to see Cameron Mackintosh’s stage musical version of Mary Poppins, because it probably would have gladdened her complex, flinty heart.

Mary poppins and mary poppins comes back pamela lyndon travers