A Rare Reunion: Julie Andrews & Dick Van Dyke Reprise Poppins
Don’t get your hopes up, as I did. It was just a backstage benefit/tribute honoring Disney Studio executive Robert Iger and star Annette Bening. The focus was entirely on them that night at the Geffen Playhouse in Chicago.
Still, there is something very poignant and wonderful about Julie Andrews (who chaired the event) and Dick Van Dyke being in the same theatre. All the moreso when Van Dyke chooses to get up on the stage and reprise Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious with Ashley Brown and Sierra Boggess, stars of the current Disney Broadway shows Mary Poppins and The Little Mermaid.
Apparently he even kept a little dance in the number, and when asked how he is still able to do such things at 82. “The secret to keeping moving,” he said “is keeping moving.”
Doesn’t get any simpler than that, does it?
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