North Bay Bohemian: Review: ‘Mary Poppins’ Lands at 6th Street
North Bay Bohemian
February 10, 2026
by Harry Duke
An upside-down family gets right-sided with the help of a practically perfect nanny in P.L. Travers’ classic Mary Poppins. In between the 1964 Disney film adaption and its belated 2018 sequel, Cameron Mackintosh put together a Broadway musical that featured elements of the Disney film along with new material. Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse has a production running through March 7.
It’s not a carbon copy of the film, though it features many of the original Sherman Brothers songs and recreates some of the film’s magical moments in its telling the tale of the Banks family: uptight father George (Robert Nelson), overwhelmed mother Winifred (Andrea Thorpe), and unruly children Michael (Joe Schulze) and Jane (Violet Spears).
The departure of the children’s umpteenth nanny is soon followed by the arrival of their latest, Mary Poppins (Caroline Flett), who, with the help of her jack-of-all-trades friend Bert (Andrew Cedeño), teaches them all a lesson or two before flying off.