“There’s no ‘practically’ about it, ‘Mary Poppins’ at Bristol Hippodrome is completely perfect,” Ellie Kendall said in Bristol live. Two decades after its worldwide debut on “This Stage”, Cameron Mackintosh’s musical adaptation of PL Travers’ book and 1964 Disney film returns.

There’s a lot of “Christmas-relevant” stuff in the production, Dominic Cavendish said in The telegraph. It is a “fable about a concerned urban banker who redemptively discovers the value of putting humanity first and remembers that the most precious possession is his family.” But the show also has a “year-round medical benefit,” with its “irresistible” invitation to “put worries aside and find the child within.”