NewsPHOTO CALL: Ashley Brown Returns to Broadway's Mary PoppinsBroadway's original Mary Poppins, Ashley Brown, returned to the Banks house at Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane March 8, rejoining the Broadway company for an engagement through July 17.
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Krissie Fullerton
March 09, 2011
She assumes the title role while Laura Michelle Kelly takes a brief hiatus for a film project. Kelly is scheduled to return to the show July 19.
The Broadway cast also features Laird Mackintosh as George Banks, Megan Osterhaus as Winifred Banks, Valerie Boyle as Mrs. Brill, Ann Arvia as Bird Woman, Andrew Keenan-Bolger as Robertson Ay, Ruth Gottschall as Miss Andrew and Jonathan Freeman as Admiral Boom. Alternating in the role of Jane Banks are Rozi Baker, Catherine Missal and Sadie Seelert; alternating in the role of Michael Banks are Ethan Haberfield, David Gabriel Lerner and Anthony Scarpone-Lambert.