Mary Poppins Returns teaser previews new song 'Trip a Little Light Fantastic'
The film includes new songs written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, best known for 'Hairspray'
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Your support makes all the difference.Disney has offered the world a first listen to one of the new songs featured in Mary Poppins Returns, "Trip a Little Light Fantastic".
A new teaser clip reveals a part of the track, sung by Lin-Manuel Miranda. The Hamilton star plays Jack, the adult protégé of Burt (played by Dick Van Dyke in the 1964 original), who's not a chimney sweep but a “leerie” – a person who rides around on a bicycle with a ladder to light the street lamps of London, then douses them in the morning.
The film includes new songs written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, best known for the Broadway musicals Hairspray and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and an original score by Shaiman. "Trip a Little Light Fantastic" will include a dance number which takes place on the streets of London.
The film, directed and produced by Rob Marshall, best known for Chicago and Into the Woods, brings the story forward to the era of the Great Depression, with a now grown-up Jane (Emily Mortimer) and Michael Banks (Ben Whishaw) living in their old house. After the death of Michael’s wife leaves him as a single father to three children, and throws their world into chaos, the Banks’s former nanny (Emily Blunt) makes a return visit, with the help of Jack.
While 1964’s Mary Poppins draws mainly from the first book in P L Travers’s eight-part Mary Poppins series, the sequel focuses on an original story, which draws elements from several of the books.
Blunt has said she hopes the film will be a "great unifier" for today’s troubled political times. The actor added: “This is what the world needs. You can feel the acrimony and the bitterness and here’s the opportunity for hope to reappear literally from the skies.”
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