Writing her first musical turned into a time machine for Cyndi Lauper.
What's this happening in Cinderella's magical kingdom? Is that a challenge to absolute monarchy we hear amid the romance and dancing? My goodness, it is: There's a demand for democracy. Children, there's even a call for economic justice.
"Mary Poppins" is closing up its big umbrella on Broadway.

It may take a big spoonful of sugar to make this go down: Julie Andrews says her four-octave voice is not coming back.

It may take a big spoonful of sugar to make this go down: Julie Andrews has said her four-octave singing voice is not coming back.
It may take a big spoonful of sugar to make this go down: Julie Andrews says that her four-octave voice is not coming back.
Carrie Underwood will star in NBC's live broadcast of "The Sound of Music" late next year.
The now-faded blue gingham dress Judy Garland wore in "The Wizard of Oz" has sold for $480,000.
Box by box they arrived, the once glittering costumes of Broadway legends and theatre memorabilia, now dirty, tattered and forgotten. There were painstakingly hand-beaded bodices and garments worn by Julie Andrews, Carol Burnett and Vanessa Williams, each more unkempt than the next, stored on rusty hangars and covered in black soot.