Bedknobs and Broomsticks - U.K. & Ireland Tour

There's also a £4 booking fee which seemed a big chunk on top on top of one ticket when I saw an amateur musical there. 

Sorry for the pile-on but I once saw Blood Brothers there. Absolutely one of the worst regional houses I've been to - we had terrible acoustics too, but that might have been the production at fault.

I'd heard it was aiming for the Autumn - waiting for Mary Poppins to vacate as they're essentially the same show.

I really hope we get a cast recording for this at least. A limited London run could work extremely well, though it’s hard to imagine where it could play without it looking dwarfed, the set isn’t exactly huge. Perhaps the Apollo?

Maybe Nimax's new theatre? 

Hopefully the ending. IMO That was the only weak point in the production.

The Ambassadors is too small both in terms of capacity and the stage. I would imagine they’d want one of the slightly bigger playhouses like the Pinter, Duke of York’s

I couldn’t! It’s way too big. For me, the ideal theatre is the Gielgud or Lyric.

I really hope they spend a bit more time and money on this if/when it comes into London. Yes, the ending needs work - narratively rather than emotionally - but most of the design elements in the second half aren’t good enough.

I loved so much about this show, though, and it’s really stuck with me (I was moved to tears at the end) - so I just hope they can give it the support it needs to make it fly as high as the bed.

I would love a Herbie musical 🤣

Yeah I wouldn't class this as near forgotten.

Thanks to vhs and dvd I'd say anyone 40 and under (maybe older) grew up with this movie. There's a lot of love for it out there. The quality of the cast is up there with Poppins, you even have Bruce Forsythe pop up.

TV networks and disney itself always push mary poppins in terms of prime tv repeats and merchandise/prominence in parks etc. But as is often the case, the movies that maybe didn't score amazing box office at the cinema have grown a fan base over time.

I saw this back in January at the Mayflower and I was in love with the entire show up until the ending, which genuinely left me feeling crushed and with a bitter taste in my mouth. I've genuinely never left a theatre feeling disappointed before, but this one did.

For a show that markets itself with 'its time to start believing' and has so many amazing stage tricks, it feels so cynical to have the characters lecture you at length that not only is magic not real but the characters you've come to care for over the last 2 and a bit hours aren't real either, before replacing them with new versions you don't know or care about.
It's like if Jane and Michael Banks told Mary Poppins 'you're just a figment of our imagination to help us deal with our father being emotionally distant' - it feels like one of those 'dead all along' / 'dying dream' fan theories about popular shows and movies.

Those kind of twists have been done before in different shows, but it doesn't work here. Also it could be so easily fixed - just have the nazis/shadows be created from the children's trauma, and have the new family unit defeat them (which lives up to the original message). But to undo literally all of the show left me feeling like I'd been robbed emotionally. Loads of reviews say "this gives us the feel-good magic we all need right now" which is extra bizarre because it takes it all away at the end and leaves you feeling bad.

However, I only feel so strongly about it because I loved the rest of the show so much (the puppets are amazing, the songs are fun, and I love Dianne Pilkington's and Charles Brunton's performances as Emelius and Eglantine). I would not complain at there being a cast album!