The biggest word in the movie and stage versions of Mary Poppins is "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious". It has 33 letters. The word was not part of the books. Richard M and Robert B Sherman, who wrote the music, thought the children needed a nonsense word to use during unusual times. It was similar to a word the brothers used as children.
Mary Poppins is of many genres such as drama and musical. Mary Poppins is also in the family, comedy, and musical comedy genres.
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In the film Mary Poppins (1964), Mary Poppins is the nanny for Jane and Michael Banks. Also present are Mr & Mrs Banks, and Bert. In the original books (1934-1988) by P.L. Travers, there are an additional 3 children, John, Barbara and Annabel.
The song "Let's Go Fly a Kite" from Mary Poppins is a very popular song and is liked by PL Travers. Many people in history sing this catchy tune.
There are so many parts of Mary Poppins (1964) to like, and each person has his own favorite. However what always made me tear up a bit was Mary Poppins leaving while the family flew kites together. I just knew the family would be a tight, cohesive unit from then on.
Pamela Lyndon Travers (born Helen Lyndon Goff in 1899) wrote 8 books in the Mary Poppins series. The first was published in 1934 and the last in 1988.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious has 34 letters
Many of the songs for the stage production of Mary Poppins were from the 1964 movie version written by Richard M and Robert B Sherman. Additional music was provided with the aide of Anthony Drewe.
The brothers Richard M (b. 1928) and Robert B (1925-2012) Sherman wrote 17 original songs for the movie Mary Poppins (1964) many of which are being used in the stage production. It is difficult to say who wrote the majority of the words, as they both contributed to lyrics and melody. In 1965 they won two Academy Awards for Mary Poppins.
"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is not found in most spell-checkers. But typing the letters "s-u-p-e-r-c-a-l" at the search bar of Wikipedia will display many popular misspellings which all redirect to the correct one."Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" has no precise meaning. An artificial nonsensical sesquipedalian word from the movie "Mary Poppins" (1964), it is used to describe something "fantastic" or "stupendous."The Urban Dictionary lists popular word "docious" as a shortened form of the word, but this has no fixed meaning in English slang.