![]() This version was also seen as an episode of D-TV on the Disney Channel. In this version of the song, Jane and Michael are shwon that chimney sweeps are also guardian angels.Ī shortened version is also present on the Disney's Sing Along Songs video "Disneyland Fun".Ī rendition also appears on the 1982 exercise album Mousercise, but with mostly different lyrics. The main difference, however, is that Bert walks upside down on the proscenium arch. "Step in Time" appears in the 2004 Mary Poppins stage musical, with a similar purpose. The other phrases in the rest of the musical number are "votes for women," "it's the master," and "what's all this?" As Jane, Michael, Mary Poppins and Bert get in the same place, Ellen runs around the dining room with an "OW!!!" and the chimney sweepers flip her. Brill walks into the living room looking at them and screams, "They're at it again!" and she runs away trying to strike one of the chimney sweepers with a frying pan. In the second part, as all the chimney sweepers get in the house of George Banks, Mrs. Binnacle, to make them scram with colorful fireworks. The interlude continues with Bert, Mary Poppins, Michael, Jane and all the chimney sweepers dancing around the rooftops and as Admiral Boom, the Banks family's next-door neighbour, looks at them with the telescope, he thinks that they're Hottentot robbers, so he orders his assistant, Mr. In the 1964 film Mary Poppins, during the first part of the song, the lines he says in the verses are "kick your knees up", "'round the chimney", "flap like a birdie", "up on the railing", "over the rooftops" and "link your elbows" followed by an interlude. It is similar to the old British music hall song " Knees Up Mother Brown". It is sung by Bert, the chimney sweep ( Dick Van Dyke) and the other chimney sweeps on the rooftops of London. The choreography for this song was provided by Marc Breaux and Dee Dee Wood. "I'll wait!" And thus a Classic was born! A multiple 1964 Oscar winner (including 'Best Actress' for Andrews, who got to share the stage with her "Lady" costar, Rex Harrison, who won 'Best Actor'), the film was a major hit, worldwide, and quickly achieved the legendary status it holds today." Step in Time" is a song and dance number from Walt Disney's 1964 film Mary Poppins which was composed by the Sherman Brothers. But it was the casting of Julie Andrews, in her first film, as Mary Poppins, that truly 'made' the film! Passed over by Jack Warner for the movie version of her stage hit, "My Fair Lady" (he opted for Audrey Hepburn), Disney caught her performance in "Camelot" on Broadway, knew, instantly, that she was the right 'Mary', and approached her for the role. ![]() ![]() Veteran stars Ed Wynn, Elsa Lanchester, Reginald Owen, Arthur Treacher, and Jane Darwell (as the Bird Woman, in her last screen appearance), headed the strong supporting cast. Popular British actors Glynis Johns and David Tomlinson would play the preoccupied parents, with Karen Dotrice and Matthew Garber (from "The Three Lives of Thomasina") as the neglected children. While American stage and TV star Dick Van Dyke was an odd choice to play a Cockney chimneysweep, he was a gifted mime and physical comedian, and had such a wholesome exuberance that Disney knew British audiences would forgive his shaky accent. With Travers' grudging approval, casting began. Years of negotiations only whetted Disney's desire to make a definitive, truly 'special' film, and by 1960, despite the box office failure of another fantasy-themed 'pet' project, "Darby O'Gill and the Little People", he was more confident than ever in the story's potential, bringing together a remarkable array of talent, including songwriting brothers Richard and Robert Sherman, production head Bill Walsh, and the brilliant artist Peter Ellenshaw to 'visualize' 1910 London through his matte paintings. Travers' tales of a magical nanny who arrives to bring families closer, the rights to the stories had been pursued by Disney since 1938, but Travers had seen what studios had done to other authors' works, and withheld her approval unless she could maintain some creative control. Certainly the crowning achievement of Walt Disney's remarkable career, both story-wise and technically, the film remains an unsurpassed achievement! Based on P.L. "Mary Poppins" is one of that select group of films that can truly be called 'Classic', a project conceived in love and filled with so much child-like wonder that it will never grow old or 'out-of-date'. ![]()
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