Gavin Lee is a remarkable English actor who starred as Bert on Broadway in the musical Mary Poppins for nearly 10 years.

He previously originated the role in the original West End production.

He was chosen for the Broadway role because of his critically acclaimed performance as Bert in the West End production.

He departed the Broadway production after nearly two years to launch the US National Tour, but returned to the Broadway production in August 2010 until its closing in March 2013.

Most recently Gavin Starred in Top Hat in the West End.

Belfeld met Gavin in 2006 and told him he would be going to Broadway as ‘Bert’ in Poppins…..a year later he did.

Alex met up with him on Broadway to get smug…..

Mary Poppins is a musical with music and lyrics by the Academy Award-winning Sherman Brothers with additional music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe and a book by Downton Abbey writer Julian Fellowes.

The tour will be directed by Anthony Lyn, with choreography by Geoffrey Garratt and musical supervision by Stephen Brooker. Mary Poppins originally ran in the West End from 2004- 2008, directed by Richard Eyre with co-direction and choreography by Matthew Bourne.

The musical is based on a  series of children’s books by P. L. Travers and the 1964 Disney film, Mary Poppins is the story of a mysterious nanny who magically appears at the Banks household in Cherry Tree Lane in Edwardian London to care for children Jane and Michael Banks.iU’s a household in disarray – until the nanny, Mary Poppins, arrives.

With Mary in the Banks’ lives and her no nonsense approach to making the right choices in life, nothing will be the same again.. Using a combination of magic and common sense, she must teach the family how to value each other again takin them on a magical adventure whisking  them away to meet dancing chimney sweeps, shopkeepers and an array of colorful characters. with spectacular  sets and costumes, breathtaking dance numbers and songs including  the Academy Award-winning “Chim Chim Cher-ee,” “A Spoonful of Sugar,” “Feed the Birds,” “You’ll have a “Jolly Holiday”, “Step in Time” and “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.”

Recorded 2007 by Alex Belfield for Celebrity Radio and the BBC.

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Mary Poppins The musical is a beautiful show for all the family that took the West End & Broadway by storm.

Mary Poppins is a musical with music and lyrics by the Academy Award-winning Sherman Brothers and a book by Julian Fellowes.

The musical is based on the similarly titled series of children’s books by P. L. Travers and the 1964 Disney film, and is a fusion of various elements from the two. Some elements from the books that had been omitted from the film were restored, such as the walking statue and the ladders rising to the stars.

Others were removed, such as the scene in which Uncle Albert gets caught on the ceiling, laughing.

Belfield went to Broadway to meet Gavin Lee and Ashley Brown….Mary and Birt!

Here’s Mary – Ashley Brown in conversation on Broadway

On November 16, 2006, Mary Poppins opened on Broadway with Brown starring as the title character. Brown left the Broadway Company on October 5, 2008 after playing the role for two years and was replaced by Scarlett Strallen who previously played the role in the West End.

Most recently she’s appeared in Oklahoma, Hello Dolly! & Show Boat.

Here’s Gavin Lee who played Birt on Broadway and in the West End:

Gavin Lee is an English actor who starred as Bert on Broadway in the musical Mary Poppins.

He previously originated the role in the original West End production.

He was chosen for the Broadway role because of his critically acclaimed performance as Bert in the West End production. He departed the Broadway production after nearly two years to launch the US National Tour, but returned to the Broadway production in August 2010 until its closing in March 2013

Recorded 2010 by Alex Belfield for the BBC and Celebrity Radio.

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